Women speaking at Side Event on Mining: Current Realities and the Need to Change

[Sascha Gabizon]

Dear Women and Youth,

I was asked by the indigenous people's if we could contribute to their side event on mining on 5 May.

I will therefore make a short presentation at their session, but can not stay till the end. 

If other women major group or youth representatives can join us, that would be really great. Please bring interested 

Thank you, 

Sascha

Subject: Re: Side Event on Mining: Current Realities and the Need to Change

Reply-To: gr...@tebtebba.org

Dear friends,

We are pleased to invite you to a Side Event on Thursday, 05 May 2011 at 6:15 p.m. on Mining: Current Realities and the Need to Change , co-organized by the Indigenous Peoples' and Women's Major Groups.   The side event will be held in UN Conference Room 4 in the North Lawn Building.  A flyer is attached with additional information on the event.

Thanks and hope to see you all.

[myrna coffino]

Hi Sascha

 

It was good to see you although we did not get a chance to say hello at the event.  Let me share my comment with you and I left my card with the Peruvian translator at the request of the guest speakers Joji Carino.  The Philippine Mission worker agreed with my point about the change in UN's status on the subject.

 

1.  Your slide on Khazakhstan with the birth defect has major impact if the parents of the child will allow you to address

     it on major media with social media blasting.

 

2.  The reason for policy priority switch is probably due to economics and the new push for Rare Earth Minerals, NASA,

     ESA, British, India, China, Brazil and Russia competing for space vehicle fuels and lighter metals.  They still do not

     have the right metal to withstand the solar ray and wind blasts of it. 

 

3.  Indigenous people with a deed to property have the right to the property; governments must purchase the property

    and along with the rights are the groundwater, so if they are in a plain as most rural areas are from great antiquity,

    the groundwater is essential to the health of the property etc. and I believe there are governing laws that engineers

    in landscape and architectural areas can furnish you with as a guide. You can then take your case to the media.

 

National Space Society can assist you to speak with the NASA Administrator and perhaps with their space born technology areas already affected can be properly decontaminated.  They may also be able to provide you with non invasive technology showing what is happening under the ground in the problem areas.

 

Myrna Coffino

UN Representative for National Space Society

and

All The Best
Myrna Coffino, Associate Broker
DG Neary Realty Ltd.
mcof...@nyc.rr.com

 

 

---

Sascha Gabizon   -   Executive Director

WECF - 

Women in Europe for a Common Future

WICF - 

Women International for a Common Future

     

Email: sascha....@wecf.eu  

Tel NL: +31 (30) 23 10 300 

Tel DE: +49 (89) 23 23 93 80

Tel Mobile: +49-172-8637586

Website: http://www.wecf.eu   

Website: http://www.projectnesting.org

WECF/WICF is a unique network of over 100 grassroots women and environment organisations worldwide, working in multi-sector partnerships demonstrating sustainable development alternatives at the local level, and sharing lessons learned and promoting sustainable policies at the global level.

Friends of WECF/WICF 

Support our work, become a Friend of WECF! Friends join our campaigns, Friends follow us on Facebook, and when they can, Friends support us with at least 1 Euro per month. Join us as a friend of WECF at fri...@wecf.eu