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Tue, 03/23/2010 - 14:32
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FOOD RESILIENCE OBSERVER COMMUNITY TO STAGE RALLY
Jakarta, March 23 (ANTARA) - Various non-government organizations grouped in Food Resilience Observer Community will state rallies at different locations in Jakarta on Tuesday.
Metro Jaya Police Traffic Management Center (TMC) said on Tuesday morning that the rallies would be stated at three different locations, namely in front of Jakarta provincial legislative assembly (DPRD) building on Kebon Sirih street, Trade Ministry office building on Ridwan Rais street, and Jakarta City Hall on Medan Merdeka Selatan street, all in Central Jakara.
TMC said the rallies would last from 10 on Tuesday morning until three in the afternoon to demand the government to seriously realize food resilience for the welfare of all people across the country.
The action rallies might have something to do with the ones staged by various environmentally-related organizations on Monday in conjunction of World Water Day.
Monday's demonstrators demanded the government to provide all people of the country with adequate clean water for their daily need.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday said
more people died from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war.
The UN chief made the statement, calling for better protection and sustainable management of one of the Earth's most precious resources on the occasion of World Water Day.
"These deaths are an affront to our common humanity, and undermine the efforts of many countries to achieve their development potential," Ban said in his message for the Day, which this year focuses on "Clean Water for a Healthy World" as its theme.
He said the growing population's need for water and food,
raw materials and energy was increasingly competing with nature's own demands for water to sustain already imperiled ecosystems and the services on which the people depend.
"Day after day, we pour millions of tons of untreated sewage and industrial and agricultural waste into the world's water systems. Clean water has become scarce and will become even scarcer with the onset of climate change," Ban said.
In his message, Ban highlighted that water was vitally linked to all UN development goals, including maternal and child health and life expectancy, women's empowerment, food security, sustainable development and climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Metro Jaya Police Traffic Management Center (TMC) said on Tuesday morning that the rallies would be stated at three different locations, namely in front of Jakarta provincial legislative assembly (DPRD) building on Kebon Sirih street, Trade Ministry office building on Ridwan Rais street, and Jakarta City Hall on Medan Merdeka Selatan street, all in Central Jakara.
TMC said the rallies would last from 10 on Tuesday morning until three in the afternoon to demand the government to seriously realize food resilience for the welfare of all people across the country.
The action rallies might have something to do with the ones staged by various environmentally-related organizations on Monday in conjunction of World Water Day.
Monday's demonstrators demanded the government to provide all people of the country with adequate clean water for their daily need.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday said
more people died from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war.
The UN chief made the statement, calling for better protection and sustainable management of one of the Earth's most precious resources on the occasion of World Water Day.
"These deaths are an affront to our common humanity, and undermine the efforts of many countries to achieve their development potential," Ban said in his message for the Day, which this year focuses on "Clean Water for a Healthy World" as its theme.
He said the growing population's need for water and food,
raw materials and energy was increasingly competing with nature's own demands for water to sustain already imperiled ecosystems and the services on which the people depend.
"Day after day, we pour millions of tons of untreated sewage and industrial and agricultural waste into the world's water systems. Clean water has become scarce and will become even scarcer with the onset of climate change," Ban said.
In his message, Ban highlighted that water was vitally linked to all UN development goals, including maternal and child health and life expectancy, women's empowerment, food security, sustainable development and climate change adaptation and mitigation.
