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The Gender Policy Framework and Action Plan for the UNCCD and the Mainstreaming of Gender within the Three Rio Conventions Go here to see the original: Finland - Minister Heidi Hautala: key note -speech in the High Level meeting 'Gender Policy & Rio Conventions'

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New York - Rwanda's National Forest Policy, initiated in 2004 and updated in 2010, has won the 2011 Future Policy Award as the world's most inspiring and innovative forest policy.The announcement was made yesterday by the World Future Council (WFC) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Excerpt from: Rwanda: Country Wins 2011 Future Policy Award

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21 September 2011 - Rwanda today won a United Nations-backed gold award for its forest promotion policies, an event that former United States track and field star Carl Lewis, himself a nine-time Olympic gold winner and now UN Goodwill Ambassador, called more important than the many medals he has garnered. Go here to read the rest: Forest policies...

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A deadly disease responsible for a sudden decline in two of Britain's most popular garden birds has now spread to Europe. Trichomonosis, a disease normally associated with pigeons, apparently "jumped the species barrier" and began to affect British finches in 2005. Read more here: Bird disease migrates from UK to Europe

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CNHI News Service – CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A public defender said Monday harsh justice for even minor crimes and lack of required courses for parole have caused serious overcrowding in West Virginia’s regional jails. Among the 1,600 inmates held in 10 regional jails, 1,100 are eligible for parole but cannot apply because the jails do not offer…[For full...

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The Sacramento Bee – September 21, 2011 Gov. Jerry Brown said this morning he will put on the November 2012 ballot a constitutional guarantee of funding for law enforcement realignment, the shift of certain offenders from state prisons to local control. “I’m not leaving Sacramento until we get a constitutional guarantee,” Brown told hundreds of law enforcement and...

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By Charles Denton, Assistant Public Defender, Alameda County Use this link to download the PDF document—>   2011 –September-21-MEMO — Realignment-Charles-Denton Read this article: The New Realignment Statutes – A Capsule Summary and Courtroom Cheat Sheet of Penal Code §§ 1170(h), 2933, 4019 & 3000.08 et. seq

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By Giana Magnoli, Noozhawk Staff Writer – NoozHawk.com Public safety leaders outlined for the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday a plan that details the implementation of Gov. Jerry Brown’s “realignment” of criminal justice services. The state will be releasing thousands of low-level felony prisoners as parolees and transferring thousands more to serve remaining sentences in...

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Unfortunately, closing a business isn't as simple as locking the doors and laying off employees. An often drawn-out process, a business owner must follow a long list of sometimes complicated legal steps. So before you get started on the checklist below, be sure to assemble a dissolution team. Closing a business may actually require an accountant and/or a...

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BY IMRAN GHORI, STAFF WRITER, The Press-Enterprise San Bernardino County public safety officials admitted to being a “little nervous” as they prepare to take over supervision of some low-risk offenders from the state prison system but said Tuesday they also see it as an opportunity to reduce recidivism. Starting Oct. 1, counties will take over the supervision and...