RFI Thursday, March 26, 2009
A look at the environmental news
Guests: Andre Cicolella, a researcher in health risk assessment at INERIS and the origin of the whistleblower, El Ali and Ibrahim, founder of the NGO Mawassem Khair (Harvest charity), react to the news and the press of the day.
World news: the weekly press review on the Environment in Asia
Links: The site
→ INERIS
→ NGO Mawassem Khair
A look at the environmental news
Guests: Andre Cicolella, a researcher in health risk assessment at INERIS and the origin of the whistleblower, El Ali and Ibrahim, founder of the NGO Mawassem Khair (Harvest charity), react to the news and the press of the day.
World news: the weekly press review on the Environment in Asia
Links: The site
→ INERIS
→ NGO Mawassem Khair
The Forum Paris and the Mediterranean
The 5th Forum will be held in Paris on 27, 28 and 29 March 2009, with the theme "Saving the Mediterranean." And that's all: preserve, protect, develop the riches and potential resources held by the Mediterranean. A sea forced by climate change, increased fishing, industrial pollution and human devastation.
Guests: Chabason Lucien, President of Plan Bleu - Regional Activity Centre of the Action Plan for the Mediterranean under the aegis of UNEP, and Bertrand Hervieu, Secretary General of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM
http://www.forumdeparis.org/
2:30 p.m. The view of Jacques Attali
Session II: The peoples test
"There has never been in the habit of natural disasters to respect state boundaries. The Black Plague of the mid-fourteenth century globalization did not wait to ravage Europe, and we know that the Chernobyl cloud has refused to stop at the borders of France. But in the globalized world of ours, it becomes clear that if the evils which afflict humanity are global, their solutions must be global, too, or at least regional.
will be reviewed by the policies implemented to fight against the scourges largely and globalized, helping poverty, are severely test the peoples of the Mediterranean basin. What do to protect more effectively against global warming, natural disasters, child mortality, health pandemics?
Workshop 2: Natural disasters and human solidarity
Hosted by cons-Admiral Jean-François Coustillière (2S)
"The Mediterranean is a very active seismic zone. At the risk immanent, coupled with the effects of global warming: fires, floods and other phenomena. The proliferation of episodes extreme forces to strengthen solidarity between the riparian states to develop emergency plans to respond quickly and effectively at the scene of disaster. "
Philippe Bisch, President of the French Association of Earthquake (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et pavements)
Nathalie Pilhes, Director migration, justice, security, Mission Union for the Mediterranean
Ibrahim El Ali, President of Mawassem Khair , Lebanese NGO environmental protection
Maurice Daccord, Special Adviser on International Affairs Civil Security
Badaoui Rouhban, Director, Division for Disaster Reduction, UNESCO
"Mediterranean Women Sing Peace".
Association of Intercultural Dialogue and Inter-Religious (ADICR) -which aims to promote dialogue between people of different cultures and religions on topical issues, is organizing a concert that shows how women artists helping to save the Mediterranean and bring Peace through Music, Poetry, Songs and Dance.
The concert will take place next Friday, March 27 at 20h00 (Room I, UNESCO) in Paris Forum and following the meeting Inaugural involving MM. Albert Mallet, Nonce Paolini, HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, Jean-Louis Borloo, and Hubert Vedrine.
cultures and artists will participate as multiple profiles: Ms. Lamia Safieddine, Intercultural Dance Choreographer East-West, Ms. Roula Safar, Lyric Mezzo-Soprano singer accompanied by Ms. Venus Khoury-Ghata, Novelist-Poet; Ms. Veronica Bellow, author interprets the East and the West from Plato to Al Farabi and Ms. Patricia Atallah, interpreter of traditional songs inspired by Fairouz.
Participation in the final concert of the two Moroccan artists exceptional: Ms. Françoise Atlan and M. Abderrahim Souiri.
The title of the concert is as follows: "Mediterranean Women Sing Peace".
This concert is supported by the Tourist Office in Paris and Lebanon ACOUSYSTEM Society and the Association of Friends of Abraham Ecchellensis, regarded in the West as the father of Orientalism.
You are warmly invited to attend with friends at the concert.
Admission is free entry to e. Mail address: contact@adicr.org
Please bring an ID and that for security reasons.
The address is as follows:
UNESCO 125, avenue de Suffren 75007 Paris
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Metro: Ségur (line 10) or Cambronne (line 6)
For further information, please contact Ms. Sassine, President of ADICR and organizer of the concert, at number: 0615461664
