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Yasuní, Green Gold, lands in Barcelona

Yasuní, Green Gold, lands in Barcelona

The movimiento Idun, an Iwith.org beneficiary, is fulfilling a dream: a tour with the authorities from the Francisco Orellana municipality, in Ecuador, to alert to the negative consequences of oil exploitation in the Ecuadorian jungle. They will arrive in Barcelona on October 14 to demand that oil cease to be the main exploitation in the region and to present a beautiful photography book, Yasuní Oro Verde (Yasuní Green Gold).
The mayoress of the Amazon region of Orellana in Ecuador, Anita Rivas, will be present in Barcelona on October 14 for the purpose of appealing to Catalan society. The purpose of the visit is to “Save the Yasuní National Park by helping to keep the oil under the ground.”


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The Yasuní is one of the most biodiverse areas on the planet and the home of one of the last Indian groups who have no contact with the outside world. Yasuní is in danger because oil companies are desperate to exploit it. The most shocking thing is that the destruction of this UNESCO reserve will take place to provide only five days of the world consumption of crude oil.

The campaign seeks support for the project proposed last year by the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa. In an innovating proposal, he asked for the economic backing of the international community for financing alternate productive alternatives, thus helping Ecuador to free itself from its dependence on oil. December 2008 was established as a deadline for governments to express their backing.

Anita Rivas, who will present the campaign in Barcelona, is a charismatic local leader who has been the central character in the local struggle for the rights of the inhabitants of the region and the preservation of biodiversity. During the act, Rivas will carry out a passionate petition to the authorities with a view to obtaining their commitment to this cause. This will be the same emphasis she will maintain with politicians during the week-long tour she has planned in Spain. Additionally the book “Yasuní Oro Verde”, published by the non-governmental organisation Movimiento Idún, which is involved in the campaign and has used the photo bank of the Municipal Government to make known the local reality at the international level.

“There are many arguments for keeping the oil in Yasuní Park under the ground. If we are able to, not only are we going to preserve a megadiverse space, home to various Indian cultures; we will become a universal symbol that another world is possible. Truly. The success of the defense of Yasuní will be a milestone for overcoming the humanity’s challenge to offset the effects of climate change,” warned Rivas.
Please visit www.yasunioroverde.org for additional information and buying the books.


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Taken from the printed edition of El Telégrafo from Ecuador, September 9, 2008
Yasuní Project is being readied

The design for obtaining international support was approved by the Ministers of the Environment and Foreign Relations.
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Interreligious Workshop for Young People held in Zaragoza, Spain

Interreligious Workshop for Young People held in Zaragoza, Spain

An interreligious workshop for young people from Belgium, Portugal and Spain was held in Zaragoza from 11 to 14 September on the occasion of the Expo 2008.


New Postraduate Course on Communitarian Intervention and Resoultion of Public Conflicts by the ...

New Postraduate Course on Communitarian Intervention and Resoultion of Public Conflicts by the ...

This programme is the only one exclusively devoted to the management and resolution of public conflicts by all kind of institutions and entities, companies, mass media, etc with different scopes of actions such as partipipation and safety among others.


New Postraduate Course on Communitarian Intervention and Resoultion of Public Conflicts by the ...

New Postraduate Course on Communitarian Intervention and Resoultion of Public Conflicts by the ...

This programme is the only one exclusively devoted to the management and resolution of public conflicts by all kind of institutions and entities, companies, mass media, etc with different scopes of actions such as partipipation and safety among others.

The postgraduate course’s aim is to offer its pupils the theoretical knowledge and experience necessary to be able to intervene in a conflict and know how to tackle and manage it. They will also need to know the reasons of the conflict and its impact on the social system as well as the role of the different entities and organizations implied. At the end of the course the pupils will be able to intervene as professionals in communitarian and public conflicts.
The course is semipresential and will start next Octobre the 17th and finish the 4th of July of 2009. There will be 226 teaching hours equivalent to 21.5 credits and it costs 1,300 euro.
The sessions will take place on Fridays from 17 to 21 and on Saturdays from 10 to 14 and from 15.30 to 19.30.

The following are the entities collaborating in this Postgraduate course organized by the Universidad de Girona: Departament d’Interior, Relacions institucionals i Participació, el Departament de Governació i Administracions Públiques; el Departament d’Acció Social i Ciutadania; la Federació de Municipis de Catalunya; l' Associació Catalana de Municipis i Comarques; l'Ajuntament de Girona; el Consell Comarcal del Pla de l’Estany, Fundació Iwith.org, Responsabilitat Global, and the Federació Catalana del Voluntariat Social. 
Lessons will be taken online at  www.campus.resoluciodeconflictes.org  and on site in the Campus Montilivi, of the Universidad de Girona-Fundació UdG.
For further information  click here.

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New Postraduate Course on Communitarian Intervention and Resoultion of Public Conflicts by the ...

New Postraduate Course on Communitarian Intervention and Resoultion of Public Conflicts by the ...

This programme is the only one exclusively devoted to the management and resolution of public conflicts by all kind of institutions and entities, companies, mass media, etc with different scopes of actions such as partipipation and safety among others.


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