- Signatures: 121
- Goal: 1,000
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This October the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) plans to launch its most recent effort to characterize the challenges facing communities affected by military activities: a global survey on the environmental impacts of peacetime military activities. Unfortunately this survey may not reach many of the people that have crucial firsthand knowledge of the environmental problems affecting communities. Your signature gives the Executive Director of the UNEP one more reason to recommend that member States seek public comment when they participate in the survey, encouraging governments to work with political minorities when they present the challenges communities face in each country.
This petition is sponsored by the Subcommittee for Military Related Environmental Concerns of Vermont Law School's International Law Society. It represents the views of the individuals and groups mentioned within, and does not reflect the position of Vermont Law School.
| Number | Date | Name | Country | Are you signing on behalf of an organization? If so, which organization do you represent? | Can you list some of the environmental and human health concerns your community (or country) has faced as a result of military activities? | Can you list some of your (organization's) technical, educational, political, and legal activities aimed at addressing these concerns? |
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| 122 | 9:58 am PDT, Sep 13 | Jamie Scott | United States | No | ||
| 121 | 1:32 am PDT, Apr 19 | Julia Tawyea | United States | no | Loss of Life | none |
| 120 | 9:38 am PDT, Mar 28 | Ginger Geronimo | United States | No | ||
| 118 | 2:08 am PST, Feb 26 | kemoi Daniel | Kenya | no | ||
| 117 | 4:06 am PST, Feb 11 | Jessica Nangauta | Guam | no | Nuclear contaminats such as PCBs, DDTs, and many other explosive devices that still remain in our waters and on our land. We are downwind from the Bikini Atoll, we live close by to their war game practice area in Kwajalen island, not to mention the Marianas Trench. . The whole Pacific Ocean has been the US military's nuclear dump site. It is against many laws that they are doing these activities, it needs to stop! | |
| 116 | 12:13 am PST, Feb 6 | Adem Certel | United Kingdom | No | ||
| 115 | 11:59 am PST, Feb 2 | Agnieszka Klocek | Poland | no | ||
| 114 | 5:39 pm PST, Jan 29 | Puanani Rogers | United States | Ho`okipa Network - Kauai | DU, ordinance dumping on shores, taking of lands, threatening marine life, destruction and desecration of lands and sacred sites, bombing and military training on lands we call home. | Educating through my communications network, demonstrations at military installations, trying to stop US military base proliferation |
| 113 | 2:54 pm PST, Jan 29 | Tony Castana | United States | No. | Ditto on comments regarding Hawai'i. | |
| 112 | 3:21 pm PST, Jan 28 | Grace Alvaro Caligtan | United States | Grace Intelligence | Seizure of land, resulting in dislocation of Native Hawaiians from their ancestral lands High rates of cancer and its impact on women's reproductive health and wellbeing Sexual Violence | |
| 111 | 2:56 pm PST, Jan 28 | Brenda Kwon | United States | None. | ||
| 110 | 2:48 pm PST, Jan 28 | Darlene Rodrigues | United States | for future generations | Contamination of groundwater and streams, unexploded ordnance, noise pollution from increased air and road traffic, increased domestic violence and violence in our community, disrespect and disregard of cultural and sacred places, destruction of native species habitats. | |
| 109 | 9:55 am PST, Jan 28 | Rinda R. Yamashiro | United States | individual | ||
| 108 | 11:48 am PST, Jan 27 | Kathy E. Ferguson | United States | None | A multitude of issues: contaminated ground water and soil, damaged reefs, unexploded ordinance and other destruction from training, ocean pollution, etc. These are important public health concerns and any effort to study they should include public participation. | |
| 107 | 9:38 pm PST, Jan 25 | Pono Kealoha | United States | Kanaka Maoli DMZ | Depleted Uranium, Pearl Harbor,Makua Valley, | |
| 106 | 3:13 pm PST, Jan 25 | joel Fischer | Viet Nam | NO; on behalf of me and my family! | A host of environmental hazards have been brought to Hawai`i by the military. They are too numerous to list, but try this one: Dumping thoiusands of tons of munitions and POISON GAS off our shores. | |
| 105 | 1:48 pm PST, Jan 25 | Anonymous | United States | No | ||
| 104 | 1:15 pm PST, Jan 25 | Kyle Kajihiro | United States | DMZ-Hawai'i / Aloha 'Aina | Violation of Hawai'i's sovereignty (Hawai'i is a independent nation state that was illegally invaded and is occupied by the US). Seizure of land, resulting in dislocation of Native Hawaiians from their ancestral lands and contributing to currenty high rates of homeless and landless Hawaiians. Unexploded ordnance and other military contamination (solvents, explosives and propellents, heavy metals, chemical weapons on land and sea, dioxins and agent orange, depleted uranium, cobalt 60), electromagnetic radiation. Unexplainably high rates of cancer, asthma, autism, and other diseases in military affected communities. Destruction and desecration of Native Hawaiian cultural resources and sacred sites, including religious sites and burials. | Our organization does education on the impacts of the military in Hawai'i and organizes to stop military expansion, seek the clean up and return of lands, develop sustainable economic alternatives and just compensation for the victims of militarization. We do research and produce educational literature and video. We help to network with global movements against militarization. |
| 103 | 4:51 pm PST, Jan 18 | Karen Gray | United States | No | ||
| 102 | 10:04 am PST, Jan 3 | Melody Safken | United States | No | ||
| 101 | 9:50 am PST, Jan 3 | Sarath Menon | India | No | ||
| 100 | 7:00 am PST, Dec 31 | Anonymous | Germany | NONE | ||
| 99 | 11:14 pm PST, Dec 30 | Anonymous | India | NO | Damage to plants,soil and ecosystem Damage to human and animal life due oerations and mines.Disturbances to habitats of fragile ecosystems ,Noise and dust pollutions | Survey and collection of plant resources |
| 98 | 12:08 pm PST, Dec 25 | Victoria Mary Stong / Community Activist | United States | No. Just me. | I'm a Community Activist | |
| 97 | 10:09 am PST, Nov 6 | Anne Seidel | Germany | - | - | - |
| 96 | 3:16 am PST, Nov 6 | Steve Klein | United States | + | + | + |
| 95 | 5:48 pm PDT, Oct 16 | Akemi Mitsuishi | Japan | No | ||
| 94 | 2:35 am PDT, Oct 8 | Adewole Taiwo | Denmark | Develop Africa Inc, Nigeria | Environmental Degradation, Pollution and Improper Waste management | We have been working hand in hand with the Ministry of Environment, and other NGO/CSO and Private Environmental Consultancy agencies |
| 93 | 1:59 am PDT, Oct 8 | julian ongoma | Kenya | youth sports and community development programme | respiratory illness ,landmines,disabilities and climatic change | advocacy,awareness creation, sensitisation |
| 92 | 2:59 pm PDT, Oct 2 | Ellen E Barfield | United States | No | ||
| 91 | 4:37 am PDT, Oct 2 | Henri Paul ELOMA | Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The | RESEAU FEMMES AFRICAINES POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE (REFADD) | BRACONNAGE DES ANIMAUX SAUVAGES, DEPLACEMENT DES POPULATIONS ET LEUR INSTALLATION DANS LES IARES PROTEGEES, INSTALLATION DES BANDES ARMEES DANS LES AIRES PROTEGEES, DESTRUCTION DES INFRASTRUCTURES, DEFORESTATION | CONSERVATION DE LA BIODIVERSITÉ DANS LES AIRES PROTÉGÉES EN TEMPS DE CONFLITS ARMÉS : CAS DES SITES DU PATRIMOINE MONDIAL EN RÉPUBLIQUE DÉMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO (R.D.C.) |
| 90 | 9:14 am PDT, Sep 30 | JEREMIAH NYANGANYI | Kenya | MWASWANYA ENVIRONMENT NETWORKS | 1982 COUPE IN OUR COUNTRY . POLLUTION AFFECTED ALOT OF PEOPLE. | FIRST TO EDUCATE PEOPLE ON POLITICAL ISSUES AND LEGAL ACTIVITIES. |
| 89 | 8:41 am PDT, Sep 25 | Juta Wada | Japan | No. | ||
| 88 | 4:20 pm PDT, Sep 20 | Wanda Colon Cortes | Puerto Rico | Proyecto Caribeño de Justicia y Paz | The US Navy military activities and operations in Vieques-Puerto Rico have left a legacy of toxic mess and destruction on the island's eco system and illnesses among the inhabitants which include but are not limited to respiratory problems and cancer, thanks to its genocidal and toxic practices in Vieques. The US Navy tested new weapons in the firing range included the highly polluting depleted uranium ammunition. At present the US Navy clean up process is base on the Open Burning and Open Detonation (OB/OD) of UXO, affecting and aggravating the health problems in the community. | Education, disclosure of information, media and community support |
| 87 | 2:26 pm PDT, Sep 16 | Stephana Benassi | United States | no | one of our military bases is trying to take farm land from residence of Penion Canyon Colorado, our local congressmen are trying to stop the expansion. | I am just an acitvist with a strong voice! |
| 86 | 10:06 pm PDT, Sep 7 | Ned Overton | United States | . | ||
| 85 | 12:17 pm PDT, Aug 18 | Chuck Dowe | United States | No... | ||
| 84 | 9:52 pm PDT, Aug 14 | Marlyssa Carlton | United States | no | ||
| 83 | 11:36 pm PDT, Aug 3 | Anonymous | United Kingdom | . | ||
| 82 | 8:32 am PDT, Jul 30 | jan sokolovits | United States | no | ||
| 81 | 8:58 pm PDT, Jul 28 | Marina Payne | United States | none | ||
| 80 | 3:50 am PDT, Jul 25 | Candy Bowman-LeBlanc | United States | No | ||
| 79 | 4:26 pm PDT, Jul 22 | Richard Michael Brugger Jr. | United States | SELF | ||
| 78 | 4:53 am PDT, Jul 22 | Samantha C. Balmes | United States | Self | See ILS Agenda | |
| 77 | 1:20 pm PDT, Jul 21 | Somsa B | United States | SOMSA-Survivors of Military Sexual Assault. | ||
| 76 | 5:13 am PDT, Jul 19 | Khawla Al Muhannadi | Bahamas | The Environment Friends Society of Bahrain | Marine Environment Degradation Green Belt Destruction Air Pollution Desert Evironment Erusion | The National Campaign for the Protection of Green Belt The National Campaign for the Protection of Marine Turtle The National Campaign for the Protection of Coral Reefs |
| 75 | 9:36 pm PDT, Jul 17 | Holly L. McEntyre | United States | No. | Toxins in rivers, swamps, oceans, drinking water, farming and other soil. | |
| 74 | 9:56 pm PDT, Jul 16 | Deetje Boler | United States | No | Community: Contamination of soil and water in San Francisco; sick and maimed veterans in our midst; air pollution from Blue Angel fly-overs; biological and chemical weapons experiments on lab animals at various facilities. Country: Radioactive contamination in Washington, Nevada, New Mexico, etc.; contaminated bases all over the country. | |
| 73 | 11:32 am PDT, Jul 16 | Gwyn Kirk | United States | Women for Genuine Security | contaminated air and water from bases, military operations, and wars: effects of uranium mining; plutonium processing; atomic/nuclear testing; nuclear waste disposal; Agent Orange/dioxin; depleted uranium; PTSD, cancer clusters --affecting local communities and military veterans | public education in the US and international solidarity work |
| 72 | 11:59 pm PDT, Jul 11 | HAYASHI Kiminori | Japan | No | base pollution & noise around Yokota air base | U.S FOIA, law suit |
| 70 | 6:59 am PDT, Jul 9 | Peter Gill | United States | International Law Society | ||
| 69 | 11:59 am PDT, Jul 7 | Vidya Sims | United States | No | ||
| 68 | 3:15 pm PDT, Jul 5 | Daniel Schramm | United States | No | "We all live downstream." But particularly heinous to me: use of uranium munitions, deep sea munitions dumping, bombing ranges in others' sovereign lands. | |
| 67 | 6:54 am PDT, Jul 5 | Shelby Kammeyer | United States | MREC | ||
| 66 | 5:26 am PDT, Jul 5 | Elizabeth H. Catlin | United States | No | ||
| 65 | 5:08 am PDT, Jul 5 | Randee Rule | United States | Self | ||
| 64 | 6:14 pm PDT, Jun 29 | Kristin Green | United States | n/a | ||
| 63 | 12:49 am PDT, Jun 27 | Kenichi Miyamoto | Japan | no | Enviromental Problems in Military Base, particulaly US military base in Okinawa | Research,Publishing, International Synposium |
| 62 | 7:12 am PDT, Jun 24 | Wendy Horn | United States | no | ||
| 61 | 6:01 pm PDT, Jun 23 | TAYLOR WEIDNER | United States | n | ||
| 60 | 8:18 am PDT, Jun 20 | Hazel Matich | United States | no | ||
| 59 | 6:35 am PDT, Jun 17 | AYUB JOEL AMAKOYE | Kenya | YES. CENTER FOR NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, ADVOCACY AND MARKETING (CREAM) | Kenya borders politically unstable countries and suffers insecurity and environmental degradation due to influx of refugees and small arms. The genocide in Rwanda brought very many human corpses into Lake Victoria. | We have a quest for Social and environmental justice, hence our resolve to participate in this survey. |
| 58 | 6:11 am PDT, Jun 17 | RUTH ANYIENDA KIHAKI | Kenya | CENTER FOR NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, ADVOCACY AND MARKETING (CREAM) | British troops training at Archer's post in kenya, Skirmishes in Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia have all led to deaths and injury to innocent Kenyans | CREAM is good in issues of advocacy from her past record.We have the Human Resource base with which to further this petition and Global Survey. We will act locally but with global thoughts and impacts |
| 57 | 2:39 am PDT, Jun 16 | MUSWAHILI EVANS | Kenya | Center for natural Resource management, Advocacy and Marketing (CREAM) | Kenya annually hosts British troops in a military training camp. The unexploded military ordinances left behind have later killed and maimed a number of pastoralists who live in the area | We have the capacity to do a lot of advocacy on this issue. A number of us are active in Civil Society work thanks to their experience and academic qualifications. Personally, am involved in political work |
| 56 | 10:36 pm PDT, Jun 15 | Denise Lytle | United States | No | ||
| 55 | 5:19 am PDT, Jun 13 | Nuntanit Bumrungsap | Thailand | No. | ||
| 54 | 5:19 pm PDT, Jun 12 | Steve Mcnutt | United States | no | Depleted uranium | |
| 53 | 1:57 pm PDT, Jun 12 | Sean John | United States | no | I heard of lead bullets, depleted uranium shells, and some run off on cape-cod bases and some defense contractor water tables in our area. (brownfields) | none. Just newspaper. |
| 52 | 6:51 am PDT, Jun 11 | Moyi Aloyce | Kenya | NO | Disability due to bomb explssions | |
| 51 | 12:39 am PDT, Jun 11 | dominic perez | Guam | no | radioactive fallout/exposure, pcb contamination of marine life, toxic dumping and sites that contain such agents as mustard gas, land condemnation, as well as just compensation, rising crime rate (just this year, we have seen arrests or sentencing of military personnel for child pornography, sexual assault & rape, vehicular homicide while intoxicated, and a hit-&-run cyclist/vehicle incident), power-generation emmissions (exemption of epa regulations due to fallout over ocean), capacity for environment to absorb waste and sewage |
To Invite Public Participation in the UNEP Survey on Military Activities and the Environment
Achim Steiner
Executive Director of the United Nation Environmental Programme (UNEP)
Subject: CSOs Further Involvement in the UNEP Global Survey on Military Related Environmental Issues
Dear Dr. Achim Steiner,
We urge you to recommend that member States ask for public comments before they submit respones to the upcoming global survey on Mlitary activities and the environment, section 20 of Montevideo Programme III.
On February 4th of 2007 the UNEP hosted the 8th Global Civil Society Forum at its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, where participating Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) adopted a key message entitled “War, Militarism and Environment.”
In the message, CSOs urge the Executive Director of the UNEP:
- To survey globally the state of the environmental consequence from military activities during times of armed conflicts and "peacetime" with its member States, Civil Society Organizations and other relevant entities and individuals.
- To fully implement the program on "Military activities and the environment" which is Section 20 of the Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law for the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century (Montevideo Programme III).
The UNEP Division of Environmental Law and Convention will initiate the global survey on peacetime impacts of military activities this June, implementing Montevideo Programme III. We welcome this effort, particularly because the Division will solicit responses from member States and CSOs to review environmental problems and solutions related to military establishments. The Division is seeking input from CSOs with firsthand knowledge of these environmental problems, however it might be difficult for the UNEP to directly contact many grassroots organizations.
UNEP member states are in a unique position to make this survey reflect the impacts of military activities on their communities, and what they are doing to address them. The UNEP and the global community are interested in broad public involvement for this survey, including NGOs, local authorities, and affected communities. (See UNEP/MIL/4, 89.) Each member state may have unique access to these individuals and CSOs. Inviting public comment could not only involve these actors, building a more diverse response to the survey, but also increase awareness of these issues.
In light of this situation, we urge you, the Executive Director:
To recommend that each Member State of the UNEP use a participatory process that asks the public for comments in the process of developing its country report for the UNEP global survey on the application of environmental norms to military establishments of Montevideo Programme III.
Thank you very much for taking time to read our request.
Respectfully,
[Your (Organization's) Name]
[Your (Organization's) Address]
Executive Director of the United Nation Environmental Programme (UNEP)
Subject: CSOs Further Involvement in the UNEP Global Survey on Military Related Environmental Issues
Dear Dr. Achim Steiner,
We urge you to recommend that member States ask for public comments before they submit respones to the upcoming global survey on Mlitary activities and the environment, section 20 of Montevideo Programme III.
On February 4th of 2007 the UNEP hosted the 8th Global Civil Society Forum at its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, where participating Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) adopted a key message entitled “War, Militarism and Environment.”
In the message, CSOs urge the Executive Director of the UNEP:
- To survey globally the state of the environmental consequence from military activities during times of armed conflicts and "peacetime" with its member States, Civil Society Organizations and other relevant entities and individuals.
- To fully implement the program on "Military activities and the environment" which is Section 20 of the Programme for the Development and Periodic Review of Environmental Law for the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century (Montevideo Programme III).
The UNEP Division of Environmental Law and Convention will initiate the global survey on peacetime impacts of military activities this June, implementing Montevideo Programme III. We welcome this effort, particularly because the Division will solicit responses from member States and CSOs to review environmental problems and solutions related to military establishments. The Division is seeking input from CSOs with firsthand knowledge of these environmental problems, however it might be difficult for the UNEP to directly contact many grassroots organizations.
UNEP member states are in a unique position to make this survey reflect the impacts of military activities on their communities, and what they are doing to address them. The UNEP and the global community are interested in broad public involvement for this survey, including NGOs, local authorities, and affected communities. (See UNEP/MIL/4, 89.) Each member state may have unique access to these individuals and CSOs. Inviting public comment could not only involve these actors, building a more diverse response to the survey, but also increase awareness of these issues.
In light of this situation, we urge you, the Executive Director:
To recommend that each Member State of the UNEP use a participatory process that asks the public for comments in the process of developing its country report for the UNEP global survey on the application of environmental norms to military establishments of Montevideo Programme III.
Thank you very much for taking time to read our request.
Respectfully,
[Your (Organization's) Name]
[Your (Organization's) Address]
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