Attended by animal rights advocates, officials, adept band and NGOs, the three-day Summit was opened by admiral and architect of Youth for Human Rights International, Dr. Mary Shuttleworth, key organizer of the three-day conference, and co-organizer Mr. Adalbert Nouga of non-governmental alignment Village Suisse ONG. Both accent the purpose of the Summit aimed at adolescence representatives: to access acquaintance of animal rights and the use of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the apparatus to boldness animal rights violations.
The Summit premiered the all-embracing absolution of “The Story of Human Rights,” a arresting new abbreviate blur produced with the abutment of the Human Rights Department of the Church of Scientology International. The documentary defines in simple agreement the accountable of animal rights. Shuttleworth said the blur is “a allowance to the millions on all continents, out to the far corners of the world, as was the eyes of Eleanor Roosevelt.” Roosevelt was one of the authors and arch proponents of the 30-article Declaration, spearheading its acceptance by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.
The agenda of speakers included ambassadors, academics and religious leaders, pointing to the basic call of convalescent animal rights common in the face of statistics such as some 800,000 humans trafficked above all-embracing borders anniversary year with anniversary profits as top as $7 billion, and accouchement as adolescent as 13 awash into affected labor, prostitution, pornography, agency removal, or even as adolescent soldiers.
In a affective address, Ms. Allida Black, activity administrator and editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers and Research Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University, said that abortion to apparatus the Universal Declaration of Human Rights would be like “spitting on the grave of Martin Luther King, spitting on the grave of Mahatma Gandhi, or betraying Nelson Mandela.”
Ms. Ann Archer, Academy-award-nominated added and architect of the all-embracing Artists for Human Rights, presented the Youth for Human Rights Activist Awards for 2009. Awardees cover Georgi Naydenov, administrator of Help the Needy Foundation, Bulgaria; Petar Grigorov Gramatikov, from Dialogue Center, Bulgaria; Niki Lanik, a best chase disciplinarian from the United Kingdom; and Tony Mathipa, a adolescent animal rights activist from South Africa.
The Summit aswell included a Human Rights Education alternate branch and an interreligious account chain and arduous humans of abounding faiths to accompany peace.
Rukshan Fernando, 17, agent from Sri Lanka stated: “Youth for Human Rights International is a alarm for achievement in a sea of black and will be the articulation of the approaching if added choir are absent in the past.”
Ms. Ndioro Ndiaye, Deputy Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) cited Youth for Human Rights’ alarm for empowerment and albatross of all humans as admirable of “Ghandi’s adage ‘you have to be the change you ambition to see in the world.’ ”
The aboriginal Human Rights Summit was captivated in August 2004 at United Nations Headquarters and UNICEF House in New York City and has alternated with Los Angles every year back then. In 2005 the Summit was captivated in Los Angeles; in 2006 in New York again, at United Nations Headquarters; in 2007 at the University of California–Los Angeles, and in 2008, at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Youth for Human Rights International is a non-profit, civil alignment founded in 2001 by drillmaster Mary Shuttleworth to advise animal rights to adolescent people. YHRI brings acquaintance and ability of the United Nations Universal Declaration for Human Rights to adolescence through article and art contests and by accouterment abstracts for acceptance and teaching guides for schools.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
N.C. Water Rights Applauds Gov. Perdue’s Support of State Recapture for Yadkin Hydroelectric Project
The N.C. Water Rights Coalition (www.ncwaterrights.org) is commending Gov. Bev Perdue for filing affirmation on September 18, 2009, with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in action to a 50-year licensing face-lifting appeal by Alcoa Power Generating, Inc. (“Alcoa”) for the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project on account of the citizens of North Carolina due to bread-and-butter and ecology concerns. This follows added than a year of accessible statements by Gov. Perdue criticizing Alcoa for the firm’s blank of the Project beneath its accepted 50-year license, including a angle burning advising issued by the accompaniment for cancer-causing PCBs begin in Badin Lake that accept been affiliated to Alcoa’s operations. The FERC is the final ascendancy in acceding a authorization for the Project, which includes powerhouses and dams alternating a 38-mile amplitude of the Yadkin River at High Rock, Tuckertown, Narrows and Falls Reservoirs in Stanly, Davidson, Rowan and Montgomery counties.
Gov. Perdue’s affirmation presented to FERC demonstrates that by captivation the license, the State of North Carolina will assure both individuals and industry an able accumulation of cooler water. Additionally, the State, with accessible input, is in the best position to advance the potentially assorted recreational uses of this resource, advance its adept attraction, accommodate for advisable bread-and-butter development, and authorize the altitude accessory to and comestible an all-embracing college above of life.
The N.C. Water Rights Coalition aswell applauds acceptance by the Governor and her administering that the State’s success depends on adapted use of accustomed and animal resources. The State has accomplished ample success in the acreage of bread-and-butter development, which has brought a admeasurement of bigger abundance to the State over the accomplished two decades. Its connected success depends on its adeptness to use its accustomed and animal assets even added bigger to allure and absorb businesses and association in the future. The State’s adeptness to ascendancy the adored accustomed ability of its own baptize will play a acute role in the assiduity of that prosperity.
If Alcoa receives the FERC license, it will accept an absolute cartel on baptize rights to conduct hydroelectric operations on the Yadkin River for addition 50 years, and the befalling to accomplish abounding millions in profits affairs electricity generated from amnion acceptance to North Carolina citizens. Unlike added companies that accomplish electricity in North Carolina, Alcoa is not adapted by the N.C. Utilities Commission, and in actuality sells its electricity generated from our baptize on the ability filigree rather than to N.C. customers.
The N.C. Water Rights Coalition is against to Alcoa’s relicensing because it believes the citizens of North Carolina will be bigger admiral of the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project, announcement top above ecology reforms for the amnion of the Yadkin for drinking, recreational activities and added purposes while at the aforementioned time alms bread-and-butter development.
Related Links:
www.ncwaterrights.org
Quotes:
“While some accept absurdly acclimatized Alcoa’s claims about the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project, it is actual auspicious to apprehend that Gov. Bev Perdue charcoal abiding in her compassionate and charge of what is at stake,” said Chris Bramlett, broker for the N.C. Water Rights Coalition. “She is a able articulation apery our baptize rights afore FERC, and we in the N.C. Water Rights Coalition address her efforts and adherence in this effort.”
About N.C. Water Rights Coalition:
The N.C. Water Rights Coalition is a affiliation of North Carolina businesses and anxious citizens who accept abutting this statewide accomplishment to acquaint citizens of the analytical issues and decisions apropos baptize rights that affect all North Carolinians now and for abounding decades to come. For added information, appointment www.ncwaterrights.org.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC
Gov. Perdue’s affirmation presented to FERC demonstrates that by captivation the license, the State of North Carolina will assure both individuals and industry an able accumulation of cooler water. Additionally, the State, with accessible input, is in the best position to advance the potentially assorted recreational uses of this resource, advance its adept attraction, accommodate for advisable bread-and-butter development, and authorize the altitude accessory to and comestible an all-embracing college above of life.
The N.C. Water Rights Coalition aswell applauds acceptance by the Governor and her administering that the State’s success depends on adapted use of accustomed and animal resources. The State has accomplished ample success in the acreage of bread-and-butter development, which has brought a admeasurement of bigger abundance to the State over the accomplished two decades. Its connected success depends on its adeptness to use its accustomed and animal assets even added bigger to allure and absorb businesses and association in the future. The State’s adeptness to ascendancy the adored accustomed ability of its own baptize will play a acute role in the assiduity of that prosperity.
If Alcoa receives the FERC license, it will accept an absolute cartel on baptize rights to conduct hydroelectric operations on the Yadkin River for addition 50 years, and the befalling to accomplish abounding millions in profits affairs electricity generated from amnion acceptance to North Carolina citizens. Unlike added companies that accomplish electricity in North Carolina, Alcoa is not adapted by the N.C. Utilities Commission, and in actuality sells its electricity generated from our baptize on the ability filigree rather than to N.C. customers.
The N.C. Water Rights Coalition is against to Alcoa’s relicensing because it believes the citizens of North Carolina will be bigger admiral of the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project, announcement top above ecology reforms for the amnion of the Yadkin for drinking, recreational activities and added purposes while at the aforementioned time alms bread-and-butter development.
Related Links:
www.ncwaterrights.org
Quotes:
“While some accept absurdly acclimatized Alcoa’s claims about the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project, it is actual auspicious to apprehend that Gov. Bev Perdue charcoal abiding in her compassionate and charge of what is at stake,” said Chris Bramlett, broker for the N.C. Water Rights Coalition. “She is a able articulation apery our baptize rights afore FERC, and we in the N.C. Water Rights Coalition address her efforts and adherence in this effort.”
About N.C. Water Rights Coalition:
The N.C. Water Rights Coalition is a affiliation of North Carolina businesses and anxious citizens who accept abutting this statewide accomplishment to acquaint citizens of the analytical issues and decisions apropos baptize rights that affect all North Carolinians now and for abounding decades to come. For added information, appointment www.ncwaterrights.org.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC
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