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Climate change and indigenous peoples, afro-descendants and migrants examined at global seminar
27 May 2021, Rome – Indigenous peoples and afro-descendants’ knowledge, innovations and resilience capacities are essential for the transformation to a more sustainable and climate-friendly world and should be included in the policy-making processes, agreed the High-Level Seminar convened today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the governments of Costa Rica, Spain and the Vatican.
Indigenous peoples are major contributors to positive change, yet these valuable contributions are seldom reflected in mitigation strategies and adaptation policies to address climate change, said FAO Director-General QU Dongyu in his opening remarks.
High-level event co-hosted by FAO, Costa Rica, Spain and the Vatican
27 May 2021, Rome - Indigenous peoples and afro-descendants knowledge, innovations and resilience capacities are essential for the transformation to a more sustainable and climate-friendly world and should be included in the policy-making processes, agreed the High-Level Seminar convened today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the governments of Costa Rica, Spain and the Vatican.
Indigenous peoples are major contributors to positive change, yet these valuable contributions are seldom reflected in mitigation strategies and adaptation policies to address climate change, said FAO Director-General QU Dongyu in his opening remarks.
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Deeply concerned : CYFN, AFN call for crackdown on Yukon MLAs after crude text exchange
The Council of Yukon First Nations and the Assembly of First Nations are calling on Yukon Party leader Currie Dixon to come down harder on some MLAs who engaged in a deplorable, abhorrent and unacceptable text message chat over the weekend.
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Posted: May 06, 2021 7:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 6
Peter Johnston, grand chief of the Council of Yukon First Nations, and Kluane Adamek, Yukon regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations, seen here in 2019. They say the leader of the Yukon Party must do more to punish MLAs who engaged in an abhorrent text exchange over the weekend.(Steve Silva/CBC)
You can colour Jeanie McLean, the minister responsible for the Women’s Directorate, unimpressed with the recent behaviour of Yukon Party MLAs Stacey Hassard and Wade Istchenko.
And she’s not the only one. The Council of Yukon First Nations (CYFN) is demanding more severe punishment for the duo.
The political veterans were at the heart of an inappropriate and disturbing group text thread that made juvenile observations about the genitalia of all three party leaders last Friday. The Star is not publishing the two men’s sexually charged comments in detail.
Yukon Party Leader Currie Dixon has not been made available to the Star this week to discuss his colleagues’ conduct.