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U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite praises Eric Holder for civil rights record
2014-09-26 05:43:22| Footwear - Topix.net
Attorney General Eric Holder's last trip to New Orleans came last year, when Kenneth Polite was sworn in as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana. It was the second time Polite and Holder had met, including a brief final interview before Polite was nominated for the job, where Polite said Holder gave him some good advice.
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CN sells rail segment to Metrolinx for $76M; retains freight rights
2014-09-25 03:02:50| Railroads - Topix.net
Canadian National Railway Co. says it has sold a segment of a rail line used by GO Transit commuter trains in the Georgetown-Kitchener, Ont., area west of Toronto to Metrolinx for $76 million.
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"Climate change is undermining rights of every child": UNICEF official
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: "Climate change is really undermining the rights of every child today and the children of tomorrow," Alex Heikens, a senior official with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), told Xinhua in an interview,just a few days before opening of the UN climate change summit. The UN summit will start at United Nations Headquarters in New York on Sept. 23 and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be the host. "The session is really about bringing the voices of marginalized people, particularly children,...
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Forest land rights need global focus
2014-09-19 02:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Recognising the land rights of local people could provide cost-effective protection for many of the world's tropical forests, a report says. But existing initiatives to tackle deforestation were poorly suited to deal with the issue, it added. However, there was an "unprecedented opportunity" to act as more nations were willing to acknowledge indigenous peoples' right to own and control land. The report will be presented at the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples. The document, produced...
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Cheap option on climate change: recognize indigenous rights to forests
2014-09-18 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Since 2008, governments have invested $1.64 billion in funds to kick-start REDD+, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, the global effort to conserve the world's forests in order to better mitigate climate change. However, a new report by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) finds that same amount of money could have secured the legal rights of indigenous and local people to 450 million hectares of forest, an area 40 percent larger than India. "Securing the rights of indigenous...
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