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RIGHTS-CHILE: Consuming Female Generosity
Consumer habits and time use are particularly apt indicators of society's gender inequities, according to Chilean experts who also criticised public and private-enterprise policies for undermining the status of women.LATIN AMERICA: Concrete Plans Needed to Reach Zero Hunger
In spite of the enormous amount of food produced in Latin America and the Caribbean, there is still hunger in the region. But each country will have to draw up its own plan to combat it, as the size of the problem and progress towards eradicating it vary considerably from country to country.CHILE: Law on Civil Union for Gays Within Reach
Chile may soon have a law to regulate the inheritance rights of both homosexual and unmarried heterosexual couples, according to activists and lawyers who are working on a draft version of the law.SCIENCE-CHILE: Radio Telescope Could Reveal Origin of Universe
The ALMA radio astronomy project, the largest of its kind in the world, is being built in Chile's Atacama Desert and is expected to help uncover no less than the keys to the origin of the universe.CHILE: Mapuche Prisoners on Verge of Starving to Death for Cause
Three members of the Mapuche indigenous community and a supporter of their cause are in critical condition almost two months into a hunger strike in a prison in southern Chile.
Telescope Could Reveal Origin of Universe
The gigantic array, whose 66 antennas will be erected in Chile's Atacama desert, is expected to produce crucial data about the cosmos beginning in 2012.EDUCATION-LATIN AMERICA: A Great Opportunity
The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean should take advantage of the fact that they have achieved virtually universal primary education, and that the school-age population is shrinking, to better orient funding and improve quality, according to United Nations experts.ENERGY-CHILE: Environmentalists Demand Changes as Crisis Looms
Chile's new government is attempting to forestall a possible energy deficit caused by cuts in the supply of natural gas from Argentina, sky-high oil prices and low rainfall forecasts for this year. But environmentalists are critical of the strategy being adopted.ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Troubled Waters Ahead for Projected Dams
Protests by Chilean civil society organisations are mounting against the Spanish corporation Endesa and its plans to build four hydroelectric stations in the southern Patagonia region, which will result in the flooding of 10,000 hectares.CHILE: Comprehensive Care for Victims of Domestic Violence
Experts applauded the Chilean government's decision to provide comprehensive care for victims of domestic violence, although they warned of the enormous challenges remaining in this country and the rest of Latin America, where a large proportion of women have experienced violence at some time in their lives.MIGRATION-LATIN AMERICA: Many Women Seek New Life Across Borders
Seven years ago, Melania decided to leave her native Peru to try her luck as a domestic employee in Chile, prompted by the difficult economic situation in her home country. She was followed soon after by her boyfriend and, later, her two sisters.CHILE: Mapuche Political Party to Pursue Autonomy
The first Mapuche political party will be founded this year, to seek autonomy and self-government for the largest group of indigenous people in Chile. But a rocky road lies ahead.CHILE: Indigenous Children Torn Between Farm Work and Homework
They dream of becoming doctors, lawyers or reporters, but they are more likely to face a future of working as chauffeurs or domestics. Raised in poverty, Aymara and Mapuche indigenous children from the northern and southern regions of Chile tend to drop out of school to go to work.CHILE: ‘Yes’ to Gold Mine, but Don’t Touch the Glaciers
Environmental authorities in Chile gave the go-ahead Wednesday to the Pascua Lama gold mining project on the Argentine border, but told Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold that it would not be allowed to carry out its plans to "relocate" three glaciers.WOMEN-CHILE: Steps in the Right Direction
The election of Chile's first woman president, and her choice of a cabinet with equal numbers of male and female ministers, are a positive sign for the political aspirations of women in this country, but more concrete action is still needed, both activists and authorities agree.RIGHTS-CHILE: Gay Community Guardedly Optimistic About Future
Despite an increase in the number of homophobic incidents reported, a newly released study on sexual minority rights in Chile concludes that 2005 was above all a year of significant advances, and many are optimistic that the future will bring even greater progress under the new government taking office in March.ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Ecologists Divided on Bachelet
The environmental movement in Chile has divergent expectations when it comes to the environmental policy to be implemented by President-elect Michelle Bachelet, a physician and socialist.CHILE: Citizens Movement Calls for New Constitution
With under a month to go before the runoff vote to elect a new president, Chilean civil society organisations are studying the viability of holding a constituent assembly to draft a replacement for the country's current constitution, which was adopted in 1980 under dictator Augusto Pinochet.EDUCATION-LATIN AMERICA: School Is Not a Cure-All for Inequality
Education alone will not solve the huge inequalities that afflict Latin America and the Caibbean, authorities and researchers warned at the first meeting convened by UNESCO to evaluate the progress of an educational project agreed by the countries of the region in 2002.HEALTH-CHILE: Poison Victims Demand Pesticide Restrictions
Sixty women and 13 men working as seasonal farm labourers were intoxicated by pesticides this month as they picked apples in an orchard in southern Chile - calling into question the effectiveness of agro-chemical regulation in this country.COMMUNICATION: Media Democracy Must Sprout From the Grassroots
Civil society must lead the democratisation of the media, an issue that was barely touched on at the recent World Summit on the Information Society, said participants at an international meeting in the Chilean capital.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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