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Mozambique.
The environmental activist group Livaningo
organized a protest in front of the
World Bank Office in Maputo, Mozambique
to protest the institution’s funding
of waste incinerators in developing
countries. The activists were wearing
masks to signify the dangers of incineration
to health and environment.
The
group was able to distribute 3,000 pamphlets
in just an hour. The activity was well
covered by the Mozambican press. For
more information, e-mail: Anabela
Lemos
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| PLANNED
EVENTS and ACTIVITIES |
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| Egypt.
The Association
of Medical Students for Social Responsibility
(Ahmed Geneid) will be at the
INC7 of the Stockholm Convention on POPs
to lobby delegates. |
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| Mozambique.
Livaningo
will have a press conference to release
the GAIA Report (summary translated into
Portuguese by Livaningo). The GDA will
also be marked with the distribution of
anti-incineration pamphlets in Maputo. |
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| Nigeria.
The Society for
Water and Public Health Protection
plans to create awareness on waste and
incineration problems by distributing
information to NGOs, CBOs, government
departments and the media. |
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| Sierra
Leone.
The Friends of the Earth will issue
a memorandum to the Government and join
the global release of the GAIA Report
"Waste Incineration: A Dying Technology." |
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South
Africa.
The Fairest Cape Association in South
Africa is participating in the GDA,
as part of their task of creating public
awareness of the consequences of poorly
managed waste. This is of particular importance
as four of the existing six landfill sites
in the Unicity of Cape Town will have
to close within the next five years, and
there are suggestions that the solution
to this problem would be incineration.
The Association will promote the benefits
of integrated waste management in a series
of information and skills building activities
to be conducted in disadvantaged communities.
groundWork will send out press
releases on that day concerning the incineration
of mercury waste, using the case studies
of Thor Chemicals and Vissehoek. Letters
to concerned government departments will
also be sent. Letters to government officials
on this issue will also be sent.
The Habitat Council, along with
the Environmental Justice Networking
Forum, will participate in the GDA
by sending information to environmental
journalists of leading papers in Cape
Town as well as to provincial and national
authorities, linking it to the application
for a hazardous waste incinerator at Swartklip.
The South Durban Community Environmental
Alliance will also participate in
the Global Day of Action. |
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| Swaziland.
Yonge Nawe will be campaigning
against the health-threatening methods
of managing healthcare waste in
clinics and hospitals around Swaziland. |
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| Tanzania.
The Agenda for Environment and
Responsible Development will
work with media and publicize the
GAIA Report on waste incineration.
The Mountain Conservation Society,
on the other hand, is sponsoring
an anti-pollution concert for the
benefit of affected children. The
Zanzibar Youth Forum is also
supporting the GDA. |
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| Togo.
The Youth Volunteers for the
Environment is joining the Global
Day of Action by disseminating information
to various stakeholders. |
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Uganda.
The following groups in Uganda are taking
part in the Global Day of Action on 14
July 2003: Ecovic Mukono, Kadetfu,
Judicial Service Committee, Prodiversity
Conservationists, Radio Uganda, Uganda
Biodiversity Network,
and the Uganda NGO Coalition for Sustainable
Development. |
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| Zimbabwe.
Busani Bafana will issue a press release
and possibly organize a press conference,
logistics permitting. |
