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UNEP has launched the 21th International children's painting competition.
The Competition is organized annually by the UNEP and the Japan-based
Foundation for Global
Peace and Environment (FGPE), Bayer and Nikon Corporation.The theme of the
21th painting competition will be " Green Communities" and participants
will have until
15 February 2012 to submit their entries.

Sub themes of the competition are:

How would you like to see our environment - our communities, cities,
forests, oceans and atmosphere?
What don't you like about our environment - our communities, cities,
forests, oceans and atmosphere?


The selection process will be in two stages; the regional selection which
will be done by UNEP Regional Offices and their partners, and the global
selection which will be done by UNEP and its partners, Foundation for
Global peace and Environment (FGPE), Bayer and Nikon Corporation.

For more details on the Competition please visit :

http://www.unep.org/tunza/children/documents/2011%20painting%20competition.pdf


Please find below the brochure which has entry details on the Competition .





For more information, send an email to children.youth @unep.org.

Dear Jessie James Marcellones,

As part of the Bonn2011 Nexus Conference, the Federal Government of Germany and Stakeholder Forum invite you to submit your key questions to the Global Panel: The Human Rights Perspective for Water, Energy and Food security.

This session will discuss how human rights based approaches (RBA) contribute towards better policymaking for water, energy and food security and will be live streamed on the conference website. The debate will take place in a ‘Question Time’ format, seeing your questions, as well as those from the audience put directly to the high level panelists.

“Human rights have been identified as one of the key issues around the Nexus approach. The Human Rights Perspective, therefore, supports mechanisms which help people attain rights, as well as develop the capacity of governments and other stakeholders to safeguard them. The human rights perspective is also essential for policies which minimise social impacts if tradeoffs are to be made. Participatory democratic mechanisms and respect for human rights more broadly will need to frame any policies seeking to guarantee the three securities”.

What will you ask governments and civil society organizations?

The best questions received in advance will be prioritised to address the panel and will acknowledge your name and affiliation.

The panel is formed by Dr. Manfred Konukiewitz, Head of the Global and Sectoral Policies Directorate, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); Ms. Shanta Sheela Nairs, Advisor to the Ministry of External Affairs, India; Ms. Danielle Morley, Executive Director, Freshwater Action Network; and Mr. Sena Alouka, Executive Director of Young Volunteers for the Environment, Togo. The session will be facilitated by Mr. Richard Black, BBC Environmental Correspondent.

In addition to submitting questions in advance, you also have the chance to input online during the live session on 16th of November 10:00 – 11:00 (UTC/GMT +1 hour).

Your contributions really matters so please send a question with your name and organisation to: Nick Allen: nallen@stakeholderforum.org

We will soon be publishing details here on how you can watch the session online: http://www.water-energy-food.org/en/home.html