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Mirjam Hirch

• The US Fails on Climate Change – Indigenous Peoples Threatened

  Jul 23, 2010 by Mirjam Hirch

  As I suggested about a year ago, shortly after the US House of Representatives passed its version of climate change legislation, the Senate will fail to move on a Bill, and the whole federal effort will stop dead in its tracks.  Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that the climate bill is dead in... more →

  Posted in Artby - Rudolph Ryser, Environment, FW Geo-Politics, Health

• WHO Admits to Not Have Done Enough

  Jul 18, 2010 by Mirjam Hirch

  “I hope this is a start of getting into a more intense contact,” the representative of the World Health Organization stated at the organization’s Geneva headquarters during a meeting with indigenous delegates from around the world on July 14th. ” You have to come see us, speak to us,” he admonished. “It is a two... more →

  Posted in Artby - Mirjam Hirch, Daily, Health, Human Rights

• Sharing Narratives for Better Health

  Jul 13, 2010 by Mirjam Hirch

  There is lots of power in indigenous knowledge holders coming together at international venues such as the conference on health promotion IUHPE currently taking place at Geneva. While in 2004 indigenous representatives still were not truly taking part in this important event, nowadays, after lots of indigenous lobbying there are many indigenous oral presentation sessions,... more →

  Posted in Artby - Mirjam Hirch, Daily, Health

• Global Health Promotion

  Jul 11, 2010 by Mirjam Hirch

  The world is in the midst of a multiplicity of crisis, above all a `crisis of ideas.` We need a paradigmatic shift, an overall economic change, Dr. Sara Cook, Director, UN Research Institute for Social Development strongly emphasized in today`s opening keynote address at the 20th triennial World Conference of the International Union for Health... more →

  Posted in Artby - Mirjam Hirch, Daily, Health

• Dumping Waste & Pollutants

  Jun 20, 2010 by Mirjam Hirch

  New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote,  “If Americans abhor poorly regulated deep-water oil drilling, wait until they get a load of nuclear waste on land with no regulatory agency in charge at all.” (Sunday, 20 June 2010, “Clean the Gulf, Clean House, Clean Their Clock”) While Rich was mainly concerned with motivating the Barak... more →

  Posted in Artby - Rudolph Ryser, Environment, FW Geo-Politics, Health