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Advocacy: Information on SIDS issues

Jakarta Presentation Report on Regional Ministerial Meeting on "Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific" (Jakarta, Indonesia; 3-5 August 2005)
Jakarta Declaration

High Representative's Statements relating to SIDS
Annan hails Caribbean Community as a model for regional cooperation
          
Click here for Secretary-General's message to CARICOM [delivered by High Representative]
OHRLLS paper submitted to the 24th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference for Small Countries (Quebec City, Canada, 30 August - 1 September 2004)
Outcome of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Small Countries Conference (Quebec, September 2004)


Background
Backgrounder: Barbados Programme of Action - ten years later

Resource Mobilization
Press Release #1: Island Nations Seek Stronger Support from the World Community
Report Says Aid to Weak States Is Inadequate - The New York Times

Trade
Press Release #2: Small Islands Seek to Reverse Trade Losses
Caribbean Bitter at EU Sugar Reform - TerraViva Europe
WTO Panel Ruling on EC Sugar Subsidies, and the WTO Framework Agreements - RNM update

HIV/AIDS
Press Release #3: AIDS Emerges as a Major Threat for Small Islands

Security
Press Release #4: Post-9/11 Security Needs Burden Small Island Resources

Global Warming and Climate Change
Press Release #5: Climate Impacts Already Felt by Small Islands
An Icy Riddle as Big as Greenland - The New York Times
A Melting Glacier in Tibet Serves as an Example and a Warning - The New York Times
G.O.P. Plans to Give Environment Rules a Free-Market Tilt - The New York Times
Arctic Thaw Threatens People, Polar Bears - The New York Times
Steps to Tsunami Warning System - The New York Times

Global warming and the Pacific islands
Islanders should never become complacent about water -
Small Islands Voice Global Forum
Climate is changing: what can we do? - Small Islands Voice Global Forum

Environmental Vulnerability
Environmental Vulnerability Index website
SOPAC Concept Paper (April 2002)
UNEP: Assessing and measuring vulnerability
SOPAC: Future directions for the EVI Project
UNDP/Univ. of West Indies: The Growing vulnerability of SIDS


Good Governannce
Corruption 'threat to South Pacific economies' - The New Zealand Herald
When Politics Corrupts Money - The New York Times

LDC Graduation
Report on the sixth session of the Committee for Development Policy (29 March- 2 April 2004)


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