Comments for Tribal Truth http://tribaltruth.org Agents Of Change Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:06:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Flint Bowling Alley Offers Free Bowling for Kids by Chris http://tribaltruth.org/2010/09/flint-bowling-alley-offers-free-bowling-for-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-4145 Chris Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:06:32 +0000 http://tribaltruth.org/?p=1041#comment-4145 Hi TT2025, I am impressed with your blog! Hi TT2025, I am impressed with your blog!

]]> Comment on Jenn Warren by Jenn Warren http://tribaltruth.org/2012/01/jenn-warren/comment-page-1/#comment-3641 Jenn Warren Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:21:17 +0000 http://tribaltruth.org/?p=2272#comment-3641 Since these photographs were taken, Pieri town has been burnt to the ground, the Pibor health clinic looted, and medical equipment destroyed. In the last month, Jonglei state has been marred by intercommunal violence which has left a significant number of people, the majority of them women and children, dead or injured, and many more displaced. The UN claimed on 20 January, that 120,000 people are in need of humanitarian assistance following the recent weeks’ violence. Armed tribal groups are taking their protection into their own hands, trying to eradicate violence through use of violence. Rule of law and security institutions and structures are currently too weak in South Sudan to deal with this long-running conflict, which cannot be ascribed to ‘traditional’ raiding; modern weapons and the scale of violence is far in excess of what has been seen before, as well as being far more brutal. Since these photographs were taken, Pieri town has been burnt to the ground, the Pibor health clinic looted, and medical equipment destroyed. In the last month, Jonglei state has been marred by intercommunal violence which has left a significant number of people, the majority of them women and children, dead or injured, and many more displaced. The UN claimed on 20 January, that 120,000 people are in need of humanitarian assistance following the recent weeks’ violence.

Armed tribal groups are taking their protection into their own hands, trying to eradicate violence through use of violence. Rule of law and security institutions and structures are currently too weak in South Sudan to deal with this long-running conflict, which cannot be ascribed to ‘traditional’ raiding; modern weapons and the scale of violence is far in excess of what has been seen before, as well as being far more brutal.

]]> Comment on UPDATE: New Yorkers Turn Out For 9/11 National Day of Service by Janel Slingerland http://tribaltruth.org/2010/09/update-new-yorkers-turn-out-for-911-national-day-of-service/comment-page-1/#comment-3465 Janel Slingerland Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:22:36 +0000 http://tribaltruth.org/?p=1153#comment-3465 Fantastic blog you have here but I was wanting to know if you knew of any community forums that cover the same topics talked about here? I'd really like to be a part of online community where I can get comments from other knowledgeable people that share the same interest. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Thank you! Fantastic blog you have here but I was wanting to know if you knew of any community forums that cover the same topics talked about here? I’d really like to be a part of online community where I can get comments from other knowledgeable people that share the same interest. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. Thank you!

]]> Comment on Climate Refugees by J. Doherty http://tribaltruth.org/2011/08/climate-refugees/comment-page-1/#comment-3353 J. Doherty Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:53:17 +0000 http://tribaltruth.org/?p=2015#comment-3353 So if an island nation is submerged beneath the ocean, does it maintain its membership in the United Nations? Who is responsible for the citizens? Do they travel on its passport? Who claims and enforces offshore mineral and fishing rights in waters around a submerged nation? International law currently has no answers to such questions. United Nations Ambassador Phillip Muller of the Marshall Islands said there is no sense of urgency to find not only those answers, but also to address the causes of climate change, which many believe to be responsible for rising ocean levels. “Even if we reach a legal agreement sometime soon, which I don’t think we will, the major players are not in the process,” Muller said. Those players, the participants said, include industrial nations such as the United States and China that emit the most carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases. Many climate scientists say those gases are responsible for global warming. Mary-Elena Carr of Columbia University’s Earth Institute said what is now an annual sea level rise of a few millimeters will increase dramatically by the year 2100. “The biggest challenge is to preserve their nationality without a territory,” said Bogumil Terminski from Geneva. International legal experts are discovering climate change law, and the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is a case in point: The Polynesian archipelago is doomed to disappear beneath the ocean. Now lawyers are asking what sort of rights citizens have when their homeland no longer exists. t present, however, there appear to be at least three possibilities that could advance the international debate about ‘climate refugee’ protections and fill existing gaps in international law. The first option is to revise the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees to include climate (or environmental) refugees and to offer legal protections similar to those for refugees fleeing political persecution. A second, more ambitious option is to negotiate a completely new convention, one that would try to guarantee specific rights and protections to climate or environmental ‘refugees So if an island nation is submerged beneath the ocean, does it maintain its membership in the United Nations? Who is responsible for the citizens? Do they travel on its passport? Who claims and enforces offshore mineral and fishing rights in waters around a submerged nation? International law currently has no answers to such questions.
United Nations Ambassador Phillip Muller of the Marshall Islands said there is no sense of urgency to find not only those answers, but also to address the causes of climate change, which many believe to be responsible for rising ocean levels.
“Even if we reach a legal agreement sometime soon, which I don’t think we will, the major players are not in the process,” Muller said.
Those players, the participants said, include industrial nations such as the United States and China that emit the most carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases. Many climate scientists say those gases are responsible for global warming. Mary-Elena Carr of Columbia University’s Earth Institute said what is now an annual sea level rise of a few millimeters will increase dramatically by the year 2100. “The biggest challenge is to preserve their nationality without a territory,” said Bogumil Terminski from Geneva. International legal experts are discovering climate change law, and the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu is a case in point: The Polynesian archipelago is doomed to disappear beneath the ocean. Now lawyers are asking what sort of rights citizens have when their homeland no longer exists.
t present, however, there appear to be at least three possibilities that could advance the international debate about ‘climate refugee’ protections and fill existing gaps in international law.
The first option is to revise the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees to include climate (or environmental) refugees and to offer legal protections similar to those for refugees fleeing political persecution. A second, more ambitious option is to negotiate a completely new convention, one that would try to guarantee specific rights and protections to climate or environmental ‘refugees

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