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This page contains links to all information resources on the Yonge Nawe website as well as archived material from pre-2004.

Information Resources can be search by the following topics: Environmental Issue; Places; Companies and Organisations; Tools for Change.  Please follow the links to find the articles of interest to you.
 
Environmental Issue Places
Air Quality
Biodiversity
Climate Change
Consumption
Corporates
Desertification
Disasters
Forests
GMOs
HIV/Aids and other diseases
Mining
Occupational Safety and Health
Poverty
Waste
Water and Wetlands
Wildlife Management
Lavumisa
Manzini
Matsapha
Mbabane
Companies and Organisations Tools for Change
Maloma Coal Mine and Swazi Vanadium
Swazi Paper Mills
Swaziland Environmental Authority
USA Distillers
Yonge Nawe
Zheng Yong
Environmental Education
Environmental Impact Assessment
Gender
International Financial Institutions
Legislation and Enviro. Law
World Environment Day
World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002
Youth

Air Quality

7 May 2002
World Asthma Day

15 February 2002 
Yonge Nawe Introduces A Community Based Air Pollution Monitoring System

13 February 2002 
Air Quality Workshop Material
 

Biodiversity

7 October 2002
World Habitat Day
 

Climate Change

December 2004
4 News Articles on Climate Change

November 2004
Newspaper column mini-series on Climate Change

12 November 2004
News Clip Article: Swaziland: Facing fourth year of drought

30 September 2003
Refugee warning to global polluters

1 May 2003
New drought threatens food security

13 March 2003
Impact of HIV/AIDS could be worse than that of drought 
 

Consumption

28 September 2002
Green Consumer Day
 

Corporates

Please click the link to find material on the following Corporates:

Maloma Coal Mine and Swazi Vanadium
Swazi Paper Mills
USA Distillers
Zheng Yong
 

Desertification

12 November 2004
News Clip Article: Swaziland: Facing fourth year of drought

Newsletter article on Mpofane donga

17 June 2003
World Desertification Day

17 June 2002
World Desertification Day
 

Disasters
10 October 2002
International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
 

Environmental Education

Newsletter article on Sustainable Environmental Education

Newsletter article on Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa

Newsletter article - What is Environmental Education

Newsletter article on Environmental Education for Schools 
 

Environmental Impact Assessment

Newsletter article on EIA

Environmental Audit Assessment Review Regulations, 2000
 

Forests

24 January 2005
News Clip article on Impacts of Plantations in Swaziland

12 December 2004
GM trees are a false option, Biodiversity is the solution

10 December 2004
News Clip article on De-forestation linked to demand for African crafts / wood carvings
 

Gender
 

GMOs

December 2004
2 News Articles on GMOs

29 / 30 November 2004
News Clip articles on GMOs: GMO Cotton and SA's opposition to recent IUCN GMO Moratorium

22 Nobember 2004
IUCN calls for a moratorium on the further release of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)

26 August 2003
GM crops in Spain don't deliver promises, but harm farmers and environment

16 October 2002
Starvation and genetically modified foods! Can beggars be choosers?

16 October 2002 
Food Aid and GMOs: Perspectiives from around the globe
 

HIV/Aids

Environment, Occupational Safety and Health and HIV/AIDS: The Least Explored Link: Final Report

OSH and HIV/AIDS Workshop Material

Newsletter article on HIV/AIDS and water and sanitation
 

International Financial Institutions
 

Lavumisa

Newsletter article on proposed textile development at Lavumisa
 

Legislation

The Water Act, 2003 

National Solid Waste Management Strategy, 2003

The Environment Management Act, 2002

Occupational Safety and Health Act, 2001

Waste Regulations, 2000

Environmental Audit Assessment Review Regulations, 2000

The Game Act 1953, amended 1991
 

Maloma - Coal Mine and Swazi Vanadium

9 November 2003
Yonge Nawe supports retrenched employees

21 September 2003
Maloma employees change their working schedule

17 May 2003
Processing Ferro Vanadium Does Pose a Health Hazard To The Environment & Employees

Newsletter article on Maloma

Manzini

Newsletter article on waste at RFM Hospital, Manzini

Newsletter article on Manzini Landfill Site
 

Matsapha

Campaign material on Swazi Paper Mills

Newsletter article on textile development at Matsapha

Mbabane

Newsletter article on Msunduza
 

Mining

Please refer to articles on Maloma Coal Mine
 

Occupational Safety and Health

Environment, Occupational Safety and Health and HIV/AIDS: The Least Explored Link: Final Report

OSH and HIV/AIDS Workshop Material

Newsletter article on HIV/AIDS and water and sanitation

Occupational Safety and Health Act, 2001

1 December 2003
World AIDS Day

13 March 2003
Impact of HIV/AIDS could be worse than that of drought 

11 July 2002
World Population Day

31 May 2002 
World No Tobacco Day

1 May 2002 
Environmental health and safety underscored on workers' day
 

Poverty

17 January 2005
UN Millennium Project presents key MDG Report

13 January 2005
News Clip Article on the links between Environment and Poverty

See also Climate Change articles which includes material on Drought and Food Security.
 

Swazi Paper Mills

18 August 2003
Pressure mounts on Paper Mills to close down

18 August 2003
Carmichael reports Paper Mills to police

28 April 2003
Environment Authority Shows its Teeth

Newsletter article on health and environmental effects of paper mills

Newsletter article on SPM
 

Swaziland Environmental Authority

19 August 2003
SEA is a Toothless Dog
 

USA Distillers

Newsletter article on USA Distillers
 

Waste

National Solid Waste Management Strategy, 2003

Waste Regulations, 2000

14 July 2003
Global Day of Action on Waste and Incineration. "Putting out the flames.Taking action on waste and incineration,"

Newsletter article on healthcare waste incineration survey

Newsletter article on waste at RFM Hospital, Manzini
 

Water and Wetlands

15 October 2004
Water and sanitation project helps rural schoolchildren 

14 September 2004
Swazi Government campaigns to prevent bilharzia

March 2004
Newsletter themed on water issues

The Water Act, 2003 

3 October 2003
Pressure on Southern African States to Manage Water Resources

1 May 2003
New drought threatens food security

13 March 2003
Impact of HIV/AIDS could be worse than that of drought 

Newsletter article on water and sanitation at Engudzeni Primary School

14 March 2002
Social Impacts of Large Dams in southern Africa 
 

Wildlife Management

December 2004
2 News Articles on Wildlife Management in Madagascar and Kenya

Yonge Nawe Wildlife Conflicts Research Report

The Game Act 1953, amended 1991
 

World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2002

Workshop Material
 

World Environment Day

5 June 2003
World Environment Day

5 June 2002
World Environment Day
 

Yonge Nawe

January 2005 Monthly Update

17 May 2003
Environmental Justice Workshop

Newsletter article on Yonge Nawe / SNTC Mluwula legal case

22 April 2002 
State of the Art Environmental Information Centre
 

Youth

16 February 2002 
Yonge Nawe Hosts Youth In Sustainable Development Conference
 

Zheng Yong

Newsletter article on proposed development at Lavumisa


Yonge Nawe
Yonge Nawe
Environmental Action Group
Email: yonawe@realnet.co.sz
P O Box 2061
Mbabane
Swaziland
Tel: +268 404 7701
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