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The SONA State of the Nation Address is to be given that night. These young people – Part of The Extinction Rebellion are protesting. We are here today to protest against our government not telling us the truth about the dangers and threats that climate change is bringing to our ...
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February, 2019
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4 February
ALIOU SALL FISHERIES IN SENEGAL
Aliou: My name is Aliou Sall, coming from Senegal, West Africa. I’m a Fisheries social anthropologist. When I talk about fisheries, I’m referring to small scale fisheries. Judy: That’s the kind of fisheries that we believe are most sustainable are small scale fisheries. Aliou: Yes of course. It’s the most ...
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January, 2019
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28 January
THULI MADONSELA SPEECH HIGHLIGHTS
THULI MADAONSELA SPEAKS ON ETHICAL CONSTITUTIONALISM AT UCT SUMMER SCHOOL 2019 Thuli Madonsela – The Ex Public Protector who challenged the Zuma administration. (The full speech will follow soon) “I want to engage you this afternoon on the issue of ethical governance and constitutional ethics. And as we can see, my ...
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24 January
UNODC LARGE OCEAN NATIONS MARITIME AWARENESS
MR KOLVE NOBRE DE CAVALHO – ATTORNEY GENERAL OF REPUBLIC OF SAN TOME AND PRINCIPE Question from the Audience: Do we easily give that sort of universal jurisdiction when it comes to fisheries crime. That would be document fraud, human trafficking and all that. that is the main question. For piracy, ...
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24 January
Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development and Rural Economic Affairs of the Democratic Socialist Republic
CAMILLA BRUCKNER – DIRECTOR – UNDP NORDIC REPRESENTATION OFFICE The US city itself represents in many ways the transition to sustainability that the sustainable development goals, the SDG’s as they are known popularly, what to promote. This building was designed by a Danish architectural firm called 3 times n. The ...
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18 January
FISH CRIME 4 COPENHAGEN 2019 LARGE OCEAN NATIONS PART 2
Many of the Large Ocean Nations are small island developing states. A thriving fishing industry based on fair competition and the sustainable use of the ocean is crucial for a viable blue economy that will support the well being of their populations, but large ocean nations have limited capacity to ...
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17 January
FISH CRIME CONFERENCE 2018 LARGE OCEAN NATIONS 3
Jamaica is located in the Carribean and we are smack between two major shipping lanes. We are also geostrategically located between the demand countries for narcotics in North America and the supply country countries in South America. Most importantly, the coastal waters in Jamaica are one of the most overfished waters ...
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17 January
LARGE OCEAN NATIONS FORUM 2018 PART 1
H.E. MR. HOGNI HOYDAL: It’s a great honour for me as Minister of Fisheries and Deputy Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands to address this workshop today where we will focus on the challenges of large ocean nations around transnational organised fisheries Crime, and the establishment of the large ocean nations ...
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December, 2018
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14 December
DES FERNANDES PLASTIC SURGEON CREATOR ENVIRON SKIN RANGE
We interview Des Fernandes in his home in Cape Town. Judy: There is such a lot of confusion about skin and therefore there is a huge amount of abuse of skin, and I think that if people understood as much as you do, they might be kinder to their skin ...
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November, 2018
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19 November
Teenage ECO activist addresses delegates at climate change conference
The ECO (Environmental Children’s Organisation), which is a group of 12 and 13-year-olds, trying to make a difference. They raised all the money themselves to be at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development to travel 5000 miles to tell adults at the conference that they need to change ...
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