UN Archive

  • Catherine Delahunty

    Sign Language Sabotaged



    Last year the Minister of Education was repeatedly asked in the House if there would be cuts to New Zealand Sign language education during the night class debacle. If you read the Manawatu Standard yesterday, it has started to happen, in that region at least. read more
    February 5, 2010 9:22 am - 7 Comments
  • frog

    How the IPCC works



    In some circles the IPCC is dismissed as “alarmist” or fuelling a left-wing conspiracy to “de-industrialise” modern society. I would have thought that the world’s largest collection international experts would have been the a pretty reliable place to get hard facts from, but maybe that’s just me… Perhaps some insight into how the IPCC works will put [...] read more
    November 12, 2009 5:51 pm - 6 Comments
  • frog

    An update on climate change, from the UN



    As an update to the latest IPCC report from the UN, they’ve released the Climate Change Science Compendium 2009. It “is a review of some 400 major scientific contributions to our understanding of Earth Systems and climate that have been released through peer-reviewed literature or from research institutions over the last three years”. A lot has [...] read more
    October 19, 2009 2:20 pm - 32 Comments
  • frog

    Ban Ki Moon adopts our Green New Deal



    A bit tongue in cheek perhaps, but there is no doubt that the principles of the Green New Deal spelled out by Russel at last week’s Picnic for the Planet resonate widely as the real solution to the world’s economic woes. Ban Ki Moon, the UN Secretary General, called on all governments at Davos to [...] read more
    January 30, 2009 3:53 pm - 5 Comments
  • frog

    60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration



    On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The rights seem so simple and so obvious that we in New Zealand quite easily take them for granted. The document is not legally binding in the way a treaty is, but it does formally define [...] read more
    December 10, 2008 10:58 am - 34 Comments