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Civil Society Organization (CSO) report on Military Activities and the Environment, 2007-2008 |
AFRICAThe United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP) Division of Environmental Law and Conventions convened the regional meeting on the Application on Environmental Norms by Military Establishments in Kenya, October 3-5, 2007. CSOs were allowed to participate in this meeting by submitting their reports.The Military Related Environmental Concerns (MREC) subcommittee of Vermont Law School's International Law Society compiled and submitted 13 reports from 10 countries. The secretariat of the UNEP reproduced and distributed our CSO report to all of the participants at the regional meeting on October 4th, and some of the issues raised by our report had been brought forward by the participants themselves and addressed during the meeting. We updated the African CSO report including 20 submissions from 10 countries, and submitted it to Regional Consultation Meeting for Africa in Cairo, Egypt on October 21-23 2007. The report on "African CSO report on Military Activities and the Environment" is available at the website of the UNEP Major groups Division. ASIA-PACIFICThe UNEP Division of Environmental Law and Conventions convened the regional meeting on the Application on Environmental Norms by Military Establishments in Bangkok, Thailand, on January 17-19, 2008.MREC compiled and submitted 14 reports from 5 countries. The secretariat of the UNEP reproduced and distributed our CSO report to all the participants of the regional meeting on January 17th. The representative of Guam EPA especially appreciated the report, as the island will receive more US military contingents from Okinawa, Japan in the near future. We updated our CSO report including those from Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW) and submitted our latest report to the UNEP 9th Global Civil Society Forum (GCSF) in Monaco, on February 19th 2008. The report on "CSO report on Military Activities and the Environment" for the 9th GCSF is available at our website. |
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INTERNATIONAL LAW SOCIETY Vermont Law School |