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Share As UW–Madison graduates celebrated commencement this spring, banners and yard signs around campus congratulated them in the Indigenous languages of the state, including Ho-Chunk and Ojibwe. The signage was a project of Enwejig, an Indigenous languages group that formed about a year ago on campus. “Our primary goal is to bring awareness of the importance of Indigenous languages to the university community and to enhance the university’s commitment to teaching the languages and workin...

Beacon Community Services names Gueulette CEO Tricia Gueulette has been named chief executive of Beacon ­Community Services effective June 10. She will succeed Bob Boulter, who announced his intention to step down from the position. “Tricia has strong roots in the community, a good business sense and a passion for building and supporting inclusive and resilient communities,” said Carla Robinson, chair of ­Beacon’s board of directors. Boulter will remain in the CEO role until Gueulett...

Judicial participants at an international meeting have called for increased use of information technology in handling environmentrelated cases to promote ecological and environmental governance.

World Judicial Conference on Environment concludes in SW China Xinhua 28 May 2021, 02:06 GMT+10 KUNMING, May 27 (Xinhua) -- The World Judicial Conference on Environment concluded Thursday in Kunming, capital of southwest Chinas Yunnan Province, with the adoption of "the Kunming Declaration of the World Judicial Conference on Environment." The declaration noted that the rule of law has an irreplaceable and important role in global environmental governance. It is necessary to continue to deepen ...

Joint efforts urged to build beautiful planet By CAO YIN in Beijing and LI YINGQING in Kunming | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-27 06:50 President Xi Jinping called on Wednesday for joint efforts and urgent global action to build a beautiful home with harmony between humans and nature, adding that China is standing ready to cooperate with other nations and international organizations to promote global ecological and environmental governance. Xi, who is also genera...

Dubai: A global pandemic. Change in political lines. The UK, post Brexit, is on a new path, one of reimagined international alliances and on the cusp of a new dawn. It is in this weather that the United Kingdom will be participating in Expo 2020 Dubai, which kicks off this October. “The UK was at a different place when we first started – it was during the pre-EU exit – and right now we are looking at the UK as Global Britain, where we will be seeing things differently. It is important we ...

Made to basically turn their back on a two-state solution all together. we need to make clear that there cant be any annexation, that there cant be a deepening of occupation, that the palestinians need to move towards democratic elections. we want to encourage both sides to come together and negotiate seriously for a shared future. >> speaking of both sides -- >> i think it is possible. >> speaking of both sides coming together, before i have to let you go, we are coming up on a vote about this ...

We want to encourage both sides to come together and negotiate seriously for a shared future. >> speaking of -- >> i think its possible. >> before i have to let you go. were coming up on the vote for a january 6 commission. do you think we as americans can model both sides coming together and get a commission passed in the senate and get that thing moving? >> wow, joshua, i hope so. this is a question of whether the republican party stays within the realm of democracy or remain on the outside in...

Quotes of the Day from Xinhua World News, May 22 Xinhua 22 May 2021, 23:30 GMT+10 UNITED NATIONS -- Zhang Jun, Chinas permanent representative to the United Nations, on Friday called on the international community to respect nature, protect it, and follow its laws to advance global ecological civilization. "Our solutions are in nature. A systemic spoil of nature will take away the foundation of human survival and development, and will leave us like a river without a source and a tree without i...

UNITED NATIONS, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Jun, China permanent representative to the United Nations, on Friday called on the international community to respect n