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Join us for a lively discussion on today’s challenging global health environment, what it will take to meet the world’s goals for public health, and updates on the President’s Global Health Initiative. Moderated by CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, MD, roundtable participants include Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, CDC Director; Ambassador Dr. Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator; Ms. Amie Batson, USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator for Global Health; Dr. J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President/Center for Strategic & International Studies; Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, Director/International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs; Dr. R.J. Simonds, Vice President/Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation; and Dr. Carlos del Rio, Chair/Emory University Hubert Department of Global Health.

Investigation of Cholera Outbreak in Malawi, 1993

Dr. Eric K Noji is conducting a case-contact investigation in response to a large-scale outbreak of cholera among Mozambican refugees in Malawi in 1993.  During the course of this outbreak investigation, Noji interviewed close to 600 people.

LRA Attacks in Northeastern Congo

The Lord’s Resistance Army has depopulated a remote corner of northeastern Congo, killing and abducting hundreds of civilians, and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes. In a new report, “‘This is our land now:’ Lord’s Resistance Army attacks in Bas Uele, northeastern Congo,” Enough Project Field Researcher Ledio Cakaj documents 51 attacks by the LRA in Bas Uele, Congo, resulting in at least 105 deaths and 570 abductions during the last 15 months.

“The LRA rampage in Bas Uele territory is brutal but strategic,” notes Cakaj, “LRA fighters have used this region as a base and transit point to the Central African Republic and beyond. The threat to civilians is increasing, since there is no meaningful military force to challenge the LRA in this area. The Congolese army remains a threat to its own population, and the United Nations is drawing down its peacekeepers in this region.”

After signing into U.S. law the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act on May 24, 2010, the Obama administration is developing a comprehensive strategy to deal with the LRA. The report argues that any viable strategy needs to take into account the importance of Bas Uele to the LRA, in order to better protect civilians and finally to end the LRA’s escalating threat across a vast region of central Africa.

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United Nations names actor Edward Norton as celebrity advocate for preserving Biodiversity

  

United Nations, New York, 8 July 2010 - Acclaimed actor and conservation activist Edward Norton took on his latest role today, as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon designated him United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity.  Mr. Norton said he hopes to channel the attention he receives for his acting to spotlight the unprecedented loss of biodiversity due to human activity and ensure world leaders take appropriate measures to safeguard the variety of life on Earth.

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PRESS RELEASE: DOCTOR ERIC NOJI JOINS THE CAUSE AS MEDICAL EXPERT

DR ERIC K. NOJI
MEDICAL EXPERT
JOINS THE CAUSE
Los Angeles, CA
July 19,2010


Physician, scientist, scholar, legendary teacher and humanitarian visionary. Dr. Eric K. Noji was elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science for pioneering work in the use of social media and global communications networks for disaster relief, humanitarian aid and other public health crises. On the evening of 24 September 2006, his webcast on disaster management was seen by over 1.5 million viewers, still the largest audience in history for a single academic lecture.

An award named in Dr. Noji's honor is presented annually by the DoD's Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance to recognize individuals whose careers have been characterized by exceptional teaching, ground-breaking research and leadership in emergency health management, conflict stabilization and peace-keeping operations, medical diplomacy and civil-military cooperation.

Dr. Noji has nearly 25 years of experience working with government agencies, NGOs, and international organizations such as WHO, USAID, MSF, the World Bank, UNICEF, UNHCR and others that provide disaster relief, humanitarian assistance, and support for reconstruction, emergency preparedness and crisis monitoring. From 1988 to 2007, Dr. Noji was the Director of the International Emergency and Refugee Health Program, Office of Global Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is currently Chairman and CEO of Noji Global Health & Security, an organization he established in 2007 that specializes in humanitarian resource mobilization and management, particularly during major crisis situations such as the tsunami disaster in 2004, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the recent catastrophic earthquakes in Haiti and China in 2010.

Dr. Noji has unparalleled experience, expertise and success in crisis fund-raising, facilitating fast-track procurement and acquisition during emergencies, innovative technology brokering and rapidly assembling the best talent. An undergraduate at Stanford, he completed his medical studies, graduate work and residency training at the University of Rochester, the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins before joining the full-time faculty and attending staff of the Johns Hopkins Hospital & School of Medicine.

New Bill a Breakthrough for Campaign Against Conflict Minerals

Activists Celebrate Victory on Conflict Minerals Legislation Yesterday Congress passed the financial reform bill with the inclusion of a key provision on conflict minerals, an incredible victory for the thousands of activists who for months have been calling on their members of Congress to take decisive action to end the trade in Congo's conflict minerals. The amendment will require companies to disclose whether they source conflict minerals from Congo or neighboring countries, and require companies to report on steps taken to exclude conflict sources from their supply chains, backed by independent audits. From the day President Obama signs the bill, the Securities and Exchange Commission will have nine months to develop regulations implementing the new law. The legislation is just one piece of a broader solution to end the scourge of conflict minerals. In the coming months, activists will be called upon to put pressure on the Obama administration to ensure that it helps lead an international effort to create the trace, audit, certify regime necessary to prevent the minerals trade from fueling violent conflict. Read more about the bill passage on Enough Said, and stay tuned for ways to take action in the coming weeks.

Huge Victory on Conflict Minerals

Today, the world moved a step closer to ensuring that the supply chains for our laptops and cell phones do not finance violence in eastern Congo. Today, human rights activists, American consumers, and the people of Congo won an incredible victory. Congress passed the Wall Street reform bill with the inclusion of a key provision on conflict minerals which will require companies to disclose whether they source conflict minerals from Congo or neighboring countries, and require companies to report on steps taken to exclude conflict sources from their supply chains, backed by independent audits.

The growing movement for Congo across America should be very proud of this impressive victory. Activists and concerned consumers from communities across the country came together with one voice and told Congress we demand strong legislation that will put us on the path to ending one of the deadliest conflicts in modern history. You overran the Facebook pages of elected officials and electronics companies, followed up with phone calls, wrote letters and emails to their offices, met face-to-face with your representatives, and called on industry leaders to clean up their supply chain. These are just some examples of the creative advocacy that has helped elevate the issue of conflict minerals to reach today’s tipping point. Senators Christopher Dodd (D-CT), Sam Brownback (R-KS), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Russ Feingold (D-WI), and Reps. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Howard Berman (D-CA), and Barney Frank (D-MA), along with many other upstanding members of Congress, deserve special praise for leading this battle over the past two years.

President Obama, This is your Rwanda moment - Dave Eggers and John Prendergast in today's New York Times

The United States has a pivotal role to play in preventing a return to full-scale war in Sudan, a country that is approaching a January 2011 secession vote that could re-ignite a conflict that has already taken two million lives, argue Enough Co-founder John Prendergast and critically-acclaimed author Dave Eggers in a New York Times op-ed out today.Says the op-ed: “This is President Obama’s Rwanda moment, and it is unfolding now, in slow motion. It is not too late to prevent the coming war in Sudan, and protect the peace we helped build five short years ago.”

Al Gore Says Mass Movement Key to Solving Climate Crisis

Al Gore Says Mass Movement Key to Solving Climate Crisis: "NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 650 volunteers with The Climate Project from branches worldwide assembled in Nashville last weekend for a training session with former Vice President Al Gore. Those trained were current Presenters and new trainees with The Climate Project. Presenters deliver an updated version of the slideshow featured in the Academy-Award winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The international training focused on the science of climate change as well as solutions to mitigate its most harmful effects, incorporating new slides and material from Vice President Gore's latest book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis."

New CD from Enough Project and Mercer Street Records Benefits RAISE Hope for Congo

New CD from Enough Project and Mercer Street Records Benefits RAISE Hope for Congo Curated by music expert Nic Harcourt, the compilation features exclusive tracks from renowned artists such as Norah Jones, Mos Def, Sheryl Crow, Angelique Kidjo, Damien Rice, Amadou & Mariam & Bat For Lashes Today, Mercer Street Records and the Enough Project released a special digital compilation album dedicated to help stop the violence against women and girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Curated by leading music expert Nic Harcourt (Los Angeles Times, KCRW Radio, A&E Network), the compilation, titled "RAISE Hope For Congo," brings together many of contemporary music’s leading artists in solidarity with Congolese women who have been the target of violence and rape amidst war in the region fueled by the demand for conflict minerals used in electronics from cell phones to computers. The incredible genre-spanning album includes exclusive tracks from Norah Jones, Mos Def, Damien Rice, Angelique Kidjo, Bat For Lashes, Rodrigo y Gabriella, Amadou & Mariam and more as well as a special reading from Sheryl Crow. DOWNLOAD the digital album. READ more about the inspiration behind the CD. READ more on Pop & Hiss, the LA Times music blog. Stay tuned for the physical release of "RAISE Hope for Congo" on June 22!

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Lifting the spirits of hospitalized children through the magic of first run films
Reel Angels' mission is to benefit hospital-bound children by providing diversional therapy through entertainment, offering them normalcy, joy and a distraction from their treatments, loneliness and fear.

Most children with terminal illnesses are hospitalized for months at a time. Even if they make brief visits home, they are often unable to spend a Saturday at the movies or enjoy other simple childhood pleasures. Their weakened immune systems make the threat of infection far too great.

PRESS RELEASE: MICHAEL BAILEY JOINS THE CAUSE AS ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERT & CONSULTING PRODUCER

MICHAEL BAILEY


JOINS THE CAUSE




ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERT / CONSULTING PRODUCER

Described as "one of the foremost eco-warriors of our times" according to Rex Weyler, a founding member of Greenpeace, along with Paul Watson, Patrick Moore, David McTaggart and others. He supervised the original Greenpeace flagship 'Rainbow Warrior'.



THE CLIMATE SUMMIT


Presently serving as Operations Director for The Climate Summit, which uses interactive videoconferencing technologies provided by Cisco Systems Inc., Bailey conducts presentations and educates the world public on the growing issue of climate change and global warming. He is an authorized presenter under The Climate Project founded by Al Gore who trained Bailey in the art of presentations pertaining to climate issues, ocean acidification and greenhouse gas emissions.



COP10 Convention on Biological Diversity


Bailey serves on the organizing committee for the Japan-based COP10 Non-Governmental group, which is a coordinating body for numerous organizations attending the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity COP10 conference being convened in Nagoya, Japan in October of 2010.



Save the Dolphin and anti-whaling campaigns


He is known for his campaigns against the whaling and dolphin hunting industries but also U.S. Navy's use of sonar and is credited with developing and popularizing the concept of a Cetacean Nation (1993) with The Human-Dolphin Foundation founder, counter culture hero and pioneer researcher into the nature of consciousness Dr John C. Lilly advocated by Jacques Cousteau. He has also coordinated rescues of beached whales.
Now a conservationist and adventure program producer, he retains a special interest in Cetacea, Bailey joined Greenpeace in 1975 and volunteered to pilot a Zodiac inflatable boat in front of a Russian harpoon ship, resulting in iconic images of the whalers firing 90 mm harpoon cannons at activists that were to establish Greenpeace in the public consciousness. Actions earning him the nickname "Zodiac Mike" or "Generalissimo".


The Cove film


Bailey is currently promoting Louie Psihoyos's documentary, The Cove, with Ric O'Barry and the Save Japan Dolphins Coalition having previously organized projects in Japan with EIji Fujiwara and Sakae Hemme of The ELSA Nature Conservancy, a Tokyo-based group of marine activists, which in 1997 which led to a milestone result causing the Japanese authorities to release dolphins due to local activist pressures.



International Whaling Commission


As an official observer at the International Whaling Commission, Bailey has played a major part in the raising of public opinion and government support against the whaling industry.



Kuwait Wildlife Campaign


Featured on the cover of an National Geographic magazine, Earthtrust was the first environmental organization in Kuwait following the 1991 Gulf War with Michael Bailey and Rick Thorpe assessing the environmental damage cause by the burning in Kuwait oil fields of Kuwait shortly after the end of the Gulf War in 1991 while the war contained following requests of the Kuwaiti royal family. They subsequently formed the Kuwait Environmental Information Center and deployed oil barriers to protect wetlands and took action resulting in the fires being extinguished more quickly which was memorialized in the internationally broadcast Earthtrust documentary Hell on Earth and a five-part Canadian Broadcasting Corporation mini-series.



Food Campaigns


Bailey has also campaigned against food irradiation and was a director of the Conservation Council of Hawai'i.



Other accomplishments


In 2005, he was awarded Anuenue Award by the Conservation Council of Hawai'i for being the 'volunteer of the year' for his dedication to "creating a better world for wildlife and future generations" by documenting plastic pollution, campaigning to protect the Arctic from oil drilling and for working with indigenous peoples such as the Gwich'in and Inupiaq; including organizing the Arctic Film Festival.


Filmography

• Oil on Ice , International Documentary Association’s 2004 Pare Lorentz Award for Democratic Sensibility and Activist Spirit. A Sierra Club Production
• ‘Great Adventures’ 1999- 2005. Producer, on-camera Host about mountaineering expeditions to the Antarctica.
• 'Wild Rescues' for Animal Planet TV Series.
• 'Effective Microorganisms' weekly television series

Biography

• 'The Greenpeace story' by Michael Harold Brown, Prentice-Hall (University of Michigan) Canada, 1989
• 'Men and Whales' by Richard Ellis. Robert Hale, (University of Virginia) 1992

References

• Souls in the Sea: Dolphins, Whales, and Human Destiny by Scott Taylor, Frog Books (February 21, 2003) ISBN 1-58394-071-5
• Greenpeace: how a group of journalists, ecologists and visionaries changed by Rex Weyler, page 580
• Greenpeace Foundation History
• The Cetacean Nation: A proposal by The Human-Dolphin Foundation, Maui Hawaii, USA Cetacean Nation Proposal
• The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography By John Cunningham Lilly, Ronin Publishers, 1996 ISBN: 0914171720
• The presence of whales: contemporary writings on the whale' by Frank Stewart. Alaska Northwest Books, 1995 (University of California) ISBN 0-88240-464-4
• Balance Seas Report
• Mystics and Mechanics, Peacework Magazine
• Greenpeace: how a group of journalists, ecologists and visionaries changed by Rex Weyler, page 423
• 'Warriors of the rainbow: a chronicle of the Greenpeace movement' by Robert Hunter, Henry Holt & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-03-043741-5 page 404
• Help Dolphins Survive
• Japanese Activists Expose Cetacean Slaughter by Nathan LaBudde, Earth Island Journal Winter 1996-97 A Whale of a Business, PBS Documentary
• Whalesong: The Story of Hawaii and the Whales by MacKinnon Simpson and Robert B. Goodman, Beyond Words Pub. Co., 1990 (University of California
• Canby, Thomas Y. After the Storm. National Geographic 180:2-32 Aug '91.
• Is Zapping Food the Answer? by Cliff Rothman. Vegetarian Times, page 12, Dec 1997
• Kolea Vol 54 Issue 1 Spring Summer 2004 Conservationists Honored for Achievements

External links

Planetviews Productions

Save Japan Dolphins

Conservation Council for Hawai'i 

COP10

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Enough is a project of the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity. Founded in 2007, Enough focuses on the crises in Sudan, Chad, eastern Congo, northern Uganda, Somalia, and Zimbabwe. Enough's strategy papers and briefings provide sharp field analysis and targeted policy recommendations based on a “3P” crisis response strategy: promoting durable peace, providing civilian protection, and punishing perpetrators of atrocities. Enough works with concerned citizens, advocates, and policy makers to prevent, mitigate, and resolve these crises. To learn more about Enough and what you can do to help, go towww.enoughproject.org.