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AT#139 - Travel to Lancaster County Pennsylvania

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Published On :: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:20:00 +0000

Lancaster County Pennsylvania


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AT#190 - Travel to the Napa Valley in California's Wine Country

By amateurtraveler.com
Published On :: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:56:25 +0000

The Amateur Traveler talks to Carole Terwilliger Meyers the author of Weekend Adventures in San Francisco and Northern California. Carole comes on the show to talk about California’s traditional wine country of Napa and Sonoma Valleys. This episode focuses primarily on the Napa Valley and the many wineries that can be found there. We explore recreated castles, wine tasting , tours as well as other none wine related sites like mud baths, petrified forests, and the CIA (The Culinary Institute). We talk about restaurants and hotels, picnics and the wine train. Whether you are a connoisseur, a foodie or just a tourist, the Napa Valley has much to offer.


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Watch the 'Bon Appétit' cast meet the creators behind the Meme Appetit account

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:32:07 +0000

What happens when memers meet the subject of their memes? In the case of the BA Test Kitchen meeting the brains behind @meme_appetit, pure gold. Harry Kersh and Will Martin started the accounts when they discovered their shared love of BA videos, and the Instagram and Twitter accounts have since taken off. 

Now with almost 400,000 followers on Instagram, the account has a lot of fans — including some members of the test kitchen. In this video, the BA cooks explain why they love (or dislike) some of the account's memes, whether it's accurate, and whether they even "get it." Watch them react to various memes and Kersh and Martin attempt to explain their reasoning behind them. Read more...

More about Memes, Viral Video, Bon Appetit, Culture, and Web Culture


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Japan's ‘Indo-Pacific’ question: countering China or shaping a new regional order?

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Published On :: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:19:14 +0000

8 January 2020 , Volume 96, Number 1

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Kei Koga

Japan's primary objective of the ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’ (FOIP) strategy is to shape and consolidate regional order in the Indo-Pacific region based on the existing rules-based international order. The concept initially aimed to achieve two different objectives—shaping a regional order in the Indo-Pacific and ensuring the defence of Japan; however, Japan has gradually shifted its strategic focus onto the former, separating national defence from the FOIP concept, which reflects a change in the degree of its commitment to the two objectives. On the one hand, as its overall security strategy, Japan has determined to steadily enhance its national defence by increasing its own defence capabilities and strengthening the US–Japan alliance, while transforming its partnerships with like-minded states, such as Australia and India, into a diplomatic, and potentially military, alignment. This has been brought about by shifts in the regional balance of power, particularly the rise of China and the relative decline of the United States. On the other hand, as part of its FOIP strategy, Japan's attempts to build a new regional order in the Indo-Pacific region aim to defend the existing rules-based order established by the United States from challengers, particularly China. Yet, given the strategic uncertainty over Japan's international coalition-building efforts to create a new regional order, Japan has made its approach flexible; Tokyo is using its ambiguous FOIP concept to gauge other states' responses, understand their perspectives, and change its strategic emphases accordingly—so-called ‘tactical hedging’. Japan has pursued similar means to achieve the two key objectives. Nevertheless, the country's core interest, the defence of Japan, is more imperative than building a regional order in the Indo-Pacific region, and Japan faces different types of challenges in the future.


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Religious violence, gender and post-secular counterterrorism

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Published On :: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 12:55:46 +0000

4 March 2020 , Volume 96, Number 2

Katherine E. Brown

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This article argues that despite the framing of religion in the discipline and practice of International Relations (IR) as a force for good, or a cause of evil in the world, IR fails to treat religion on its own terms (as sui generis). With a few exceptions, the discipline has pigeonholed religion as a variable of IR, one that can be discussed as one might GDP, HIV, or numbers of nuclear missiles: measurable, with causality and essential properties. IR has also tended to treat religion as equivalent to features of global politics that it already recognizes—as an institution or community or ideology, for example—but in doing so, it misses intrinsic (and arguably unique) elements of religion. Drawing on feminist insights about how gender works in IR, namely that gender is a construct, performative and structural, this article argues a similar case for religion. A reframing of religion is applied to the case of Daesh (so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS) to show how our understanding of the organization changes when we view religion differently. The implications for counterterrorism policies if religion is viewed as more than a variable are explored in light of recent territorial and military losses for Daesh. The article therefore proposes a post-secular counterterrorism approach.


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Accountability, denial and the future-proofing of British torture

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Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 09:24:20 +0000

7 May 2020 , Volume 96, Number 3

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Ruth Blakeley and Sam Raphael

When powerful liberal democratic states are found to be complicit in extreme violations of human rights, how do they respond and why do they respond as they do? Drawing on the example of the United Kingdom's complicity in torture since 9/11, this article demonstrates how reluctant the UK has been to permit a full reckoning with its torturous past. We demonstrate that successive UK governments engaged in various forms of denial, obfuscation and attempts to obstruct investigation and avoid accountability. The net effect of their responses has been to deny the victims redress, through adequate judicial processes, and to deny the public adequate state accountability. These responses are not simply aimed at shielding from prosecution the perpetrators and those who have oversight of them, nor preventing political embarrassment. The various forms of denial and obstruction are also designed to ensure that collusion can continue uninterrupted. A core concern of intelligence officials and ministers has been to prevent any process that would lead to a comprehensive prohibition on involvement in operations where torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment are a real possibility. The door remains wide open, and deliberately so, for British involvement in torture.


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Lesotho’s Domestic Priorities and Global Interests: Small Country Levers for International Influence

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Published On :: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 14:57:42 +0000

Research Event

7 April 2014 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Chatham House, London

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Event participants

HE Dr Motsoahae Thomas Thabane, Prime Minister of Lesotho
Chair: Ian Lucas MP, Shadow Minister for Africa and the Middle East

The landlocked southern African nation of Lesotho faces a number of domestic challenges in 2014. Reducing reliance on the agricultural sector, containing the prevalence of HIV and improving service delivery are all important issues that must be addressed to ensure sustainable growth. However, social achievements including literacy rates and levels of gender parity among the highest in Africa, the country’s potential for electricity exports, and the booming relationship between its textile industry and the United States, could mean Lesotho is well-placed for future growth and development. 

HE Prime Minister Tom Thabane will discuss how his government seeks to address the Lesotho’s domestic issues and how the country seeks to exert its influence in the regional Southern African Development Community.


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Accountability, denial and the future-proofing of British torture

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Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 09:24:20 +0000

7 May 2020 , Volume 96, Number 3

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Ruth Blakeley and Sam Raphael

When powerful liberal democratic states are found to be complicit in extreme violations of human rights, how do they respond and why do they respond as they do? Drawing on the example of the United Kingdom's complicity in torture since 9/11, this article demonstrates how reluctant the UK has been to permit a full reckoning with its torturous past. We demonstrate that successive UK governments engaged in various forms of denial, obfuscation and attempts to obstruct investigation and avoid accountability. The net effect of their responses has been to deny the victims redress, through adequate judicial processes, and to deny the public adequate state accountability. These responses are not simply aimed at shielding from prosecution the perpetrators and those who have oversight of them, nor preventing political embarrassment. The various forms of denial and obstruction are also designed to ensure that collusion can continue uninterrupted. A core concern of intelligence officials and ministers has been to prevent any process that would lead to a comprehensive prohibition on involvement in operations where torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment are a real possibility. The door remains wide open, and deliberately so, for British involvement in torture.


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Online Counterterrorism: The Role of the Public and Private Sectors

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Published On :: Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000


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Undercurrents: Episode 27 - Financing for Developing Countries, and Investigative Journalism in West Africa

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Published On :: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000


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Strengthening National Accountability and Preparedness for Global Health Security (SNAP-GHS)

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Published On :: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 15:43:55 +0000

The project aims to identify the enablers and barriers to enhance data use by National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs), producing outputs that will facilitate strengthening of the role of NPHIs in monitoring potential public health threats, and in shaping and informing domestic policies on health security and preparedness.

Global health security is underpinned by the actions taken at a national level to ensure capacities exist to sufficiently prepare for and respond to acute threats and crises. In many contexts, National Public Health Institutes (NPHIs) were first established because of, and in response to, specific public health challenges typically related to infectious diseases.

The Strengthening National Accountability and Preparedness for Global Health Security (SNAP-GHS) project evolved from a series of roundtables and discussions hosted by the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House, in collaboration with the Graduate Institute of Geneva.

The outcome of the project is a SNAP-GHS Toolkit to support NPHIs in better diagnosing and understanding the challenges to data use within their own institutes, as well as in relation to external stakeholders and agencies. The toolkit is intended to be used for further circulation and dissemination by the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI).

The project is led by the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House in collaboration with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, and the National Institute for Health in Pakistan.


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Japan's ‘Indo-Pacific’ question: countering China or shaping a new regional order?

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Published On :: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:19:14 +0000

8 January 2020 , Volume 96, Number 1

Read online

Kei Koga

Japan's primary objective of the ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’ (FOIP) strategy is to shape and consolidate regional order in the Indo-Pacific region based on the existing rules-based international order. The concept initially aimed to achieve two different objectives—shaping a regional order in the Indo-Pacific and ensuring the defence of Japan; however, Japan has gradually shifted its strategic focus onto the former, separating national defence from the FOIP concept, which reflects a change in the degree of its commitment to the two objectives. On the one hand, as its overall security strategy, Japan has determined to steadily enhance its national defence by increasing its own defence capabilities and strengthening the US–Japan alliance, while transforming its partnerships with like-minded states, such as Australia and India, into a diplomatic, and potentially military, alignment. This has been brought about by shifts in the regional balance of power, particularly the rise of China and the relative decline of the United States. On the other hand, as part of its FOIP strategy, Japan's attempts to build a new regional order in the Indo-Pacific region aim to defend the existing rules-based order established by the United States from challengers, particularly China. Yet, given the strategic uncertainty over Japan's international coalition-building efforts to create a new regional order, Japan has made its approach flexible; Tokyo is using its ambiguous FOIP concept to gauge other states' responses, understand their perspectives, and change its strategic emphases accordingly—so-called ‘tactical hedging’. Japan has pursued similar means to achieve the two key objectives. Nevertheless, the country's core interest, the defence of Japan, is more imperative than building a regional order in the Indo-Pacific region, and Japan faces different types of challenges in the future.


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Making Votes Count

By www.ams.org
Published On :: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:33:09 -0500

The outcome of elections that offer more than two alternatives but with no preference by a majority, is determined more by the voting procedure used than by the votes themselves. Mathematicians have shown that in such elections, illogical results are more likely than not. For example, the majority of this group want to go to a warm place, but the South Pole is the group.s plurality winner. So if these people choose their group.s vacation destination in the same way most elections are conducted, they will all go to the South Pole and six people will be disappointed, if not frostbitten. Elections in which only the top preference of each voter is counted are equivalent to a school choosing its best student based only on the number of A.s earned. The inequity of such a situation has led to the development of other voting methods. In one method, points are assigned to choices, just as they are to grades. Using this procedure, these people will vacation in a warm place a more desirable conclusion for the group. Mathematicians study voting methods in hopes of finding equitable procedures, so that no one is unfairly left out in the cold. For more information: Chaotic Elections: A Mathematician Looks at Voting, Donald Saari


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L.A. County's biodiversity is on the map, thanks to UCLA researchers

By newsroom.ucla.edu
Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Located in a global hotspot for biodiversity, Los Angeles County is home to more than 4,000 distinct species of plants and animals, including 52 endangered species - more than any county outside of Hawaii. And with 1 million animal and plant species facing extinction due to human activity, according to the United Nations, efforts to better understand the factors that shape biodiversity in Los Angeles could help shape global conservation efforts.


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Web development ,Web Design & Graphic Design services - 16% Discount May 2020

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:16:14 +0000


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Handling account information in case of an accident

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:57:15 +0000


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CBD News: European Community Members and Their Overseas Entities meet to counter Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss.

By www.cbd.int
Published On :: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: The President of the Conference of the Parties and Executive Secretary Congratulate Countries that Have Submitted on Time Their Fourth National Reports and Urge all Parties to Meet Their Reporting Obligations Under the Convention

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Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Statement by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Countdown 2010 Advisory Board Meeting, Montreal, 15 May 2009.

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Published On :: Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Message from Mr Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity to the Countdown 2010 Advisory Board Meeting, 13 October 2009, Brussels, Belgium.

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Published On :: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Communiqué: Establishment of a Vibrant Partnership between the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Civil Society of its Host Country: Signature of an MOU with the Canadian Environmental Network

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Published On :: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Communiqué: CBD Secretariat and the Institute of Energy and Environment of La Francophonie join Forces to Raise Awareness in French-Speaking Countries.

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Published On :: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Statement to UNFCCC SBSTA 31: Agenda Item 5 Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries: Approaches to Stimulate Action.

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Published On :: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Opening Remarks by Mr. Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the Access and Benefit-Sharing Regional Consultations for Central and Eastern European Countries, 9-10 February 2010, Isle o

By www.cbd.int
Published On :: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: Statement by Mr Ahmed Djoghlaf, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the International Ministerial Conference of Mountain Countries on Climate Change, 4 October 2010, Kathmandu, Nepal

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Published On :: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Joint Press Release: Mobilizing society to support biodiversity: As Countdown 2010 initiative closes, local coordinated actions show way to solving the global biodiversity crisis.

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Published On :: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: The UN Secretary-General Message to Closing Ceremony for the International Year of Biodiversity, Kanazawa, 18 December 2010. The UNSG Message is also available in Japanese on the Countries Celebrations page www.cbd.int/2010/country/?country=jp

By www.cbd.int
Published On :: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Press Release: Mexico Signs Nagoya Protocol on Genetic Resources: Megadiverse Country is the Fifth Signatory to the Historic Treaty.

By www.cbd.int
Published On :: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Press Release: Rwanda Sixth Country to Sign International Protocol on Genetic Resources.

By www.cbd.int
Published On :: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Press Release: International Policy Award for Visionary Forest Policies: Sixteen Countries Nominated by Experts.

By www.cbd.int
Published On :: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Communiqué: Sudan Becomes the 11th Country to Sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources.

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Published On :: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Communiqué: Ghana Becomes 24th Country to Sign International Treaty on Genetic Resources

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Published On :: Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Press Release: Forest Policies from six countries shortlisted for Future Policy Award

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Published On :: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Communiqué: United Nations Decade on Biodiversity launched in Havana for the countries of the Caribbean

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Published On :: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Communiqué: Antigua and Barbuda becomes the first Caribbean island country to sign the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization

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Published On :: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Press Release: Gabon becomes the first country to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources

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Published On :: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Press Release: Latvia becomes the first country to ratify the Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress

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Published On :: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Press Release: Jordan becomes first country in the Arab region to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources

By www.cbd.int
Published On :: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Press Release: Rwanda third country to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources

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Published On :: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Press Release: Seychelles fourth country to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources

By www.cbd.int
Published On :: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Press Release: Future Policy Award celebrates solutions to save oceans and coasts: 31 policies from 22 countries and regions nominated

By www.cbd.int
Published On :: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Press Release: How can we save the world's oceans and coasts? Five countries' ocean and coastal policies shortlisted for the 2012 Future Policy Award.

By www.cbd.int
Published On :: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD News: The New Delhi ASEAN-India Ministerial Statement on Biodiversity: Ministers responsible for the environment and their representatives of India and ASEAN countries have agreed to enhance awareness among all stakeholders, strive towards mainstreami

By www.cbd.int
Published On :: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Press Release: Montreal, 27 September 2012 - Lao Peoples' Democratic Republic is the sixth country to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from Their Utilization to the Co

By www.cbd.int
Published On :: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Communiqué: Hyderabad, 27 September 2012 - Some 2000 delegates from more than 150 countries will convene this coming Monday in Hyderabad, India, for the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the C

By www.cbd.int
Published On :: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT


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CBD Press Release: At United Nations Biodiversity Conference, countries agree to double resources for biodiversity protection by 2015 - Special attention for biodiversity-rich marine areas among other key outcomes.

By www.cbd.int
Published On :: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT


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