Dear friends and
colleagues, Please help support our petition on experimental seabed
mining at a crucial time in the Pacific. "As we move toward the UN Conference on Sustainable
Development, Rio+20 in June 20121, and in view of the Nadi Conference on Seabed
Mining co-organised by the government of Fiji and the International Seabed
Authority2, we the undersigned civil society groups write to express our deep
concern over steps taken to legitimize and fast-track experimental seabed mining
as a development option in the Pacific region...": at http://www.dawnnet.org/advocacy-appeals.php
In response to current efforts to legitimatize experimental seabed mining through the development of legislation, a new Pacific movement is being launched to express our deep concern over steps taken to legitimize and fast-track experimental seabed mining as a development option in the Pacific.
We stood together as a region when nuclear proliferation was being pushed by external parties, and we will do so again against new forms of human rights violations and unsustainable development, such as the kind being pushed based on danger-filled extractive industries.
We ask you to join us by doing the following:
First, please sign on to the Petition -Full text attached. Send your name and organisational details to the following emails: research@pang.org.fj or coordinator@pang.org.fj
The petition which is launched today 1st of December will be open for signatories until the end of February 2012 where we will present the petition to heads of governments of the 15 Pacific countries included in the European Union funded project titled "Deep Sea Minerals in the Pacific Islands Region: a Legal and Fiscal Framework for Sustainable Resource Management".
Second, we would really appreciate it if you promote this petition on your sites and through your respective networks so that we can get as many signatures as we can before the end of February 2012.
Thirdly we would be grateful if you could keep us posted on the status of the petition.
Lastly if there are any new developments on the topic at the national level please do keep us updated.
For further information please contact: + (679) 3316 722
In response to current efforts to legitimatize experimental seabed mining through the development of legislation, a new Pacific movement is being launched to express our deep concern over steps taken to legitimize and fast-track experimental seabed mining as a development option in the Pacific.
We stood together as a region when nuclear proliferation was being pushed by external parties, and we will do so again against new forms of human rights violations and unsustainable development, such as the kind being pushed based on danger-filled extractive industries.
We ask you to join us by doing the following:
First, please sign on to the Petition -Full text attached. Send your name and organisational details to the following emails: research@pang.org.fj or coordinator@pang.org.fj
The petition which is launched today 1st of December will be open for signatories until the end of February 2012 where we will present the petition to heads of governments of the 15 Pacific countries included in the European Union funded project titled "Deep Sea Minerals in the Pacific Islands Region: a Legal and Fiscal Framework for Sustainable Resource Management".
Second, we would really appreciate it if you promote this petition on your sites and through your respective networks so that we can get as many signatures as we can before the end of February 2012.
Thirdly we would be grateful if you could keep us posted on the status of the petition.
Lastly if there are any new developments on the topic at the national level please do keep us updated.
For further information please contact: + (679) 3316 722
Fay
Volatabu
General Secretary
National Council of Women Fiji
9 LeHunte Street
Box 840 Suva
email: secretary@ncwfiji.org or ncwfgs1@gmail.com
phone:[679] 3562725
General Secretary
National Council of Women Fiji
9 LeHunte Street
Box 840 Suva
email: secretary@ncwfiji.org or ncwfgs1@gmail.com
phone:[679] 3562725
