Participants of a session on MDG at the world water week discusses the importance to develop additional indicators to monitor the MDG. Gerard Payen of Aquafed chairs the session.
Packing for Stockholm: BothEnds and several other NGOs/IGOs are planning to hold a side event on this September’s Stockholm world water week. The topic: Human Rights Based Approach to Improving Water Quality.
Chair: Mr. Jean-Benoit Charrin, WaterLex, Switzerland
| 14:00 | Welcome and Introduction. Ms. Lucinda O'Hanlon, Special Procedures Division, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) |
| 14:10 | Concepts I - "Legal and policy development, water quality & the right to water". Dr. Riant Nugroho, Board Member the Jakarta Water Regulatory Body, Indonesia |
| 14:30 | Concepts II - "The Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) and the right to water", Ms. Natalia Uribe, UNESCO Etxea, Spain |
| 14:50 | Concepts III - "A Human Rights Based Approach to IWRM - a new initiative", Ms. Susanne Schmidt, Water Governance Specialist, UNDP |
| 15:10 | Break |
| 15:20 | Case Study I - Ecuador. Ms. Sara Caria, ACRA, Ecuador |
| 15:40 | Case Study II - Indonesia. Mr. Mova Al’Afghani, UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Dundee University, United Kingdom |
| 16:00 | Case Study III - Tanzania. Mr. Alejandro Jiménez, Ingeniería Sin Fronteras - ISF (Engineers Without Borders), Spain |
| 16:20 | Case Study IV - BiH & Tajikistan. Ms. Katy Norman, junior independent consultant working with UNDP |
| 16:40 | Panel Discussion. Chair: Dr. Tobias Schmitz, Both ENDS, Netherlands |
| 17:20 | Closing Remarks. Dr. Tobias Schmitz, Both ENDS, Netherlands |
| 17:30 | Close of Seminar |
If I can find some wi-fi there, Indolawreport may hold a series of live-blogging. More details to follow. If you happens to be in the World Water Week, join us.
Good news and an honor for Indonesia law Report. I have received the following email from the Library of Congress:
The United States Library of Congress has selected your website for inclusion in the historic collection of Internet materials related to Legal Blawgs. The Library of Congress preserves the Nation's cultural artifacts and provides enduring access to them. The Library's traditional functions, acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to the Congress and the American people to foster education and scholarship, extend to digital materials, including websites.
With your permission, the Library of Congress or its agent will engage in the collection of content from your website at regular intervals over time and make this collection available to researchers both at Library facilities and, by special arrangement, to scholarly research institutions. In addition, the Library hopes that you share its vision of preserving Internet materials and permitting researchers from across the world to access them.
Our Web Archives are important because they contribute to the historical record, capturing information that could otherwise be lost. With the growing role of the Web as an influential medium, records of historic events could be considered incomplete without materials that were "born digital" and never printed on paper.
The library of congress recently archive a number of high-quality blawgs. You can access them here. I have also accepted their proposal for off-site access. To know more about Library of Congress Web Archiving program, click here.
Hopefully, we can soon see Indolawreport to be listed there and accessible to everyone in the future. Happy blogging and participate in writing history!
The WWF launched postcard campaign to encourage more ratification of the UN Watercourses Convention. In order for the convention to be in force, another 16 ratification would be necessary. Indonesia has land border with East Timor, New Guinea and Malaysia. As such, there might be possibilities that transboundary water is shared.
According to the WWF:
We encourage you to download copies of the postcards and of their accompanying leaflet, in order to find out more about the 2011 target and what YOU can do to help achieve it, whether you are an influential individual, a government official, or a representative of an NGO or other interested institution. Join the numerous individuals and institutions that have already vowed to support the UN Watercourses Convention Global Initiative.
Click on the picture above to download “Everything you need to know about the UN Watercourses Convention”
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Last April, the Ministry of Health updated drinking water quality regulation. The Permenkes 492 contains minimum obligatory standard of drinking water quality parameters that should be followed. The Permenkes also obligates examination of drinking water quality by water quality providers and government agencies. In practice, regional governments enumerate this rule through regional by-laws. The previous drinking water quality regulation – issued in 2002 – is therefore repealed.
Download the Permenkes here.
Here a list on what evernote can do to enhace your legal practice:
I think evernote is good to be used for start-up lawfirms or those with SOHO (Small Office Home Office) practices. Recently I connected my inexpensive Lexmark s.305 Wi-FI printer to send scanned files (PDF or Pictures) directly to evernote so that it can sync with the system there. But if you have a scanner with autofeeder, I think it would be much faster and better to scan documents, deeds, contracts and all those boring stuffs :) No need to use expensive Knowledge Management softwares, its a waste of money!
Read our previous post: Evernote for Lawyers.
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