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Both Graça Machel and her husband, the former South African President, Nelson Mandela, have been crowned ‘Heroes’ in a vote cast by seven million children from across the world.
The ‘Decade Child Rights Hero’ is a new award established to celebrate ten years of the World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child, founded by the Swedish organisation, Children’s World.
Graça is being honoured for her work with vulnerable young people, primarily in Mozambique and for her courageous campaigning for the rights of girls. In 1994 she established the Foundation for Community Development-a grassroots organisation that protects children from disease and poverty-the first of its kind in Mozambique. “We buy vaccines and make sure that children do not die from preventable illnesses,” she explained.’.
The ‘Decade Child Rights Hero’ is a new award established to celebrate ten years of the World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child, founded by the Swedish organisation, Children’s World.
Graça is being honoured for her work with vulnerable young people, primarily in Mozambique and for her courageous campaigning for the rights of girls. In 1994 she established the Foundation for Community Development-a grassroots organisation that protects children from disease and poverty-the first of its kind in Mozambique. “We buy vaccines and make sure that children do not die from preventable illnesses,” she explained.’.
A historic pact has been made between forest industry and environmental groups in Canada. The largest conservation plan of its kind, the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement applies to an area twice the size of Germany - 72 million hectares stretching almost from coast to coast.
The initiative will lead to large-scale protection of wilderness areas and direct preservation of the threatened woodland caribou - an immediate moratorium on logging in 28 million hectares will cover almost its entire critical habitat.
This unprecedented agreement will involve 21 member companies of the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and nine leading environmental organizations. Under the agreement, members of FPAC, who manage two-thirds of all the certified forest land in Canada, commit to the highest environmental standards for woodland management. Protecting the Boreal Forest - a massive carbon store - is a key way to effect climate change. .
The initiative will lead to large-scale protection of wilderness areas and direct preservation of the threatened woodland caribou - an immediate moratorium on logging in 28 million hectares will cover almost its entire critical habitat.
This unprecedented agreement will involve 21 member companies of the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and nine leading environmental organizations. Under the agreement, members of FPAC, who manage two-thirds of all the certified forest land in Canada, commit to the highest environmental standards for woodland management. Protecting the Boreal Forest - a massive carbon store - is a key way to effect climate change. .
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