The redeployment of the SAS to Afghanistan will again put New Zealand troops in the midst of the 'War on Terror'. Everyone from Amnesty to the UN has been having a go over the mistreatment of prisoners. How clean are New Zealand's hands on this issue?
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Pacific Big Eye and Yellowfin tuna are overfished by non-Pacific fishers and are now seriously threatened.
Each year in the Pacific
Foreign countries catch over 90% of tuna in the Pacific.
This has a value of US $3 billion a year.
Only $0.15 billion of this stays in Pacific mostly through processing.
High tech large ships can catch as much fish in two days as a small Pacific nation can in a year.
What can we do?
Metiria and Keith are currently running a campaign to pressure the New Zealand Government to actively support and enable Pacific Island Nations. A copy of the petition can be downloaded from: www.greens.org.nz/conservation/tunapetition
Come meet Keith Locke and other local Greens at the Farmers' Market this Saturday. Contribute or purchase locally grown and produced goods, and discuss Green values and policies.
Keith Locke's letter to John Key, urging him to engage with the issue of the human rights crisis in Sri Lanka at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) on 27 to 29 November 2009 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.