World's Scientists to Carry Out Independent Review of IPCC

Photo via FreeSpeech Ban Ki-moon has announced that a comprehensive, independent review of the IPCC is to be carried out, after calls from world governments were made to do so. The Secretary General for the UN said that scientists from academies around the world will take part in the review, which will be headed by the Inter-Academy Council--and it will be conducted completely independently of the United Nations. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

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IESB Exclusive: Twilight Actor Peter Facinelli on Eclipse, a Two-Part Breaking Dawn and More!

Peter Facinelli, best known for his turn as Dr. Carlisle Cullen in the Twilight films, visited Rancho Cucamonga's Victoria Gardens mall for a fan event recently. Autographs and photograph opportunities were available as a way to raise funds for the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF). UNICEF ... — full article at iesb.net

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March 8 - Celebrate International Women's Day in Cambridge

Join the Cambridge Women's Heritage Project at on Monday May 8th, 2010 for a celebration of International Women's Day, Women Fighting for Economic and Social Justice: A Celebration of Margaret Fuller’s Legacy. Date: Monday March 8th Time: 5:30 Refreshments; 6:00 Program Begins Location: City Hall Annex - 344 Broadway, Cambridge, 2nd Floor Program: The evening’s panel style program will relate Margaret Fuller's activism during the Italian Revolution in the late 1840's with the work of several Cambridge women activists today. Come listen and be inspired by these real life stories: Joan von Mehren - Author, Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller Bishnu Pariyar - Founder, Empowering Dalit Women of Nepal (EDWON) Patricia Monte - Executive Director, Centro Presente Christine Low - Co-Director and Co-Founder, Matènwa Community Learning Center, Haiti Coverage of the event by CCTV NeighborMedia correspondents, ToniBee and Siobhan coming soon... **** International Women's Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. It is an occasion for looking back on past struggles and accomplishments, and more importantly, for looking ahead to the untapped potential and opportunities that await future generations of women. More information at the United Nations web site http://www.un.org/en/events/women/iwd/2010/index.shtml NeighborMedia Cambridge

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Workplaces Must Adapt to Greater Role of Women In Workforce

A new Center for American Progress (CAP) report released in time for International Women’s Day today offers practical solutions to help America’s workers and families meet the dual demands of work and family. (Read the full report here.) The report, “Our Working Nation: How Working Women Are Reshaping America’s Families and Economy and What It Means for Policymakers,” calls for: Updating basic labor standards to recognize that most workers also have family responsibilities and need predictable and flexible workplace schedules,access to paid family and medical leave the right to paid sick days.* Improving basic fairness in our workplace by ending discrimination against all workers, including pregnant women and caregivers. Providing direct support to working families with child care and elder care needs. Improving knowledge about family-responsive workplace policies by collecting national data on work-life policies offered by employers and analyzing the effectiveness of existing state and local policies. The report builds on the 2009 Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation, which took a comprehensive look at working women and how their work has transformed today’s workplace. In a telephone press conference this afternoon, the report’s co-author Heather Boushey, senior economist at CAP, cited a poll that shows a large majority of Americans support new, more family-friendly workplace policies. A full 85 percent of respondents say businesses that fail to adapt to the needs of modern families risk losing good workers. Boushey said: These issues are becoming more important in the recession. Most of the jobs that have been lost have been lost by men leaving millions of women and mothers to support their families On top of this for those worker who have their jobs we need to make sure they stay employed, that…family-work conflicts don’t put them on the unemployment rolls. In the United States and around the world, working women fall short of getting equal pay, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO). In addition to higher poverty rates and the ongoing prevalence of sexual and domestic violence, the United Nations reports that women earn between 30 percent and 40 percent less pay than men for equivalent work. And with the nation’s financial debacle, U.S. women are shouldering the added burdens of sky-high unemployment, rampant foreclosures and inadequate access to health care. The AFL-CIO has a “long-standing commitment to gender equality in the workplace,” AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler said. And today we’re reaffirming that commitment, standing firm with workers around the world to call for a more equitable and inclusive future for women. In a statement, the AFL-CIO said: It’s clear that the jobs crisis is a crisis for working women. But like the women who marched in New York City over 100 years ago for shorter working hours, better pay, an end to child labor, and the vote, women today are fighting back. As labor readies for a massive campaign to create the jobs our country desperately needs, the AFL-CIO is proud to stand with them in that fight.

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Many Nations Passing U.S. in Education, Expert Says

A Senate panel learned that more students in more countries graduate from high school and college and score higher on achievement tests than students in the United States.

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Un-backed Global Conference On Trade In Endangered Species Begins

A United Nations-backed conference aimed at regulating international trade in endangered species such as elephants, polar bears, sharks and bluefin tuna kicked off today in Qatar with a warning that s...

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New U.N. mission chief in Kabul after tough year (Reuters)

Reuters - A new United Nations mission chief arrived in Kabul on Saturday to take up his post after a difficult year that saw the mission divided over election fraud and forced to cut back staff after a deadly attack.

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Bluefin tuna tops CITES conference agenda in Doha

The Atlantic bluefin tuna and other marine life in the world's overfished oceans will be the focus of a two week United Nations conference that opened Saturday in the Gulf state of Qatar.

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New U.N. Climate Change Group Is All Male

A group of women are upset that a new United Nations climate change financing group has 19 members, but no women. [NYT Science] [Read More]

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Blufin tuna tops CITES conference agenda in Doha

DOHA, Qatar -- The Atlantic bluefin tuna and other marine life in the world's overfished oceans are the focus of a United Nations conference in the Gulf state of Qatar.

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