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CLIMATE CHANGE: Getting Ready for Mexico
Before the outcome of COP 15 has even emerged, Latin American social organisations are already discussing their strategies for the next climate summit, to be held in a year's time in Mexico.
Latin America: The Climate Clock Is Ticking
A new study suggests that Latin America would not incur great costs if it takes on commitments now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and takes immediate steps to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
COP15 Is a “False Solutions Fair”
At the climate summit in Copenhagen, it's as if "everyonejust wants to go on avoiding what we really have to discuss, which is whatneeds to be done" to save the planet, says Brazilian feminist Miriam Nobre in this interview.
CLIMATE CHANGE-CUBA: “Energy is an Instrument of Power”
"Energy is an instrument of power. Whoever has energy, controls the world," Cuban expert Luis Bérriz said in an address to Klimaforum, the civil society meeting being held in parallel to the UN conference on climate change in the Danish capital.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Portraits from the Summit
Among the thousands of people who have flocked to the Danish capital this week for the climate change summit and dozens of parallel activities are activists of all ages and stripes and representatives of the business community. TerraViva caught up to some of them to find out why they are here and what they hope to achieve.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Latin American Women Want Modified Trade Rules
"We don't need to change the climate, we need to change trade," said Brazilian activist Marta Lago at Klimaforum, the civil society meeting held in parallel with the climate change summit in the Danish capital.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Latin America Between Hope and Realism
Latin America has come to Copenhagen with the goal that the wealthy nations of the North pay their climate debt by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing resources to developing nations. But facing the risk that this strategy could fail, the Latin American representatives are also willing to accept some compromises.
Latin America Between Hope and Realism
Representatives of Latin America's governments are arriving in Copenhagen calling for an aggressive pact with teeth to fight climate change, though there are still minor differences among them when it comes to priorities.CHILE: Media Empires Undermine Pluralistic Democracy
Chile is a classic example of the concentration of media ownership in too few hands, says Chilean journalist María Olivia Mönckeberg in her latest book "Los magnates de la prensa" (The Press Magnates). If the state does not exercise stricter regulation, democracy itself may be undermined, she warns.Q&A: “We Have Linked Machismo and Femicide in the Public Mind in Chile”
More than 500 Chilean women have been killed by their partners, ex-partners or strangers since 2001. This year alone, there have been 52 "femicides", economist Gloria Maira said on Wednesday, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.CHILE: Mapuche Detainees Say They Were Framed
"This lie has got to end," said a sobbing Luisa Marilef, a 55-year-old Mapuche woman who says her son's arrest and prosecution under Chile's anti-terrorism law was part of a set-up by the police and prosecutors.
CHILE: Mapuche Voices from Prison
"If the government says let's sit down and try to reach a solution, we'll be there," Héctor Llaitul, a leader of the radical Mapuche organisation Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM), who is in prison in the southern Chilean region of Bío-Bío, told a group of foreign correspondents.
LATIN AMERICA: Journalistic Prize for Making Poverty News
The second "Latin America and the Millennium Development Goals" Journalism Prize, sponsored by the UNDP and IPS, was awarded Thursday in the Chilean capital in a ceremony addressed by the head of the U.N. agency, Helen Clark.CHILE: Women in Arms
The official version of Chilean history renders women’s political participation "invisible" and relegates them to a secondary or anecdotal role, says journalist Cherie Zalaquett, author of a new book, "Chilenas en armas" (Chilean Women in Arms).
CHILE: Teen Pregnancy, a Problem That Won’t Go Away
Chile currently stands out for its spectacular progress in a number of health indicators, including maternal and child mortality and chronic malnutrition. But these successes obscure an acute social problem that refuses to yield: the steady rise in the number of teenage mothers.RIGHTS-CHILE: Stop Violence Against Indigenous Children – UNICEF
Reports of police violence against Mapuche children in the southern Chilean region of Araucanía prompted the country's UNICEF representative, Gary Stahl, to express the agency's deep concern at a meeting with three government ministers.CHILE: Fashion Finds Green Style
Young Chilean designers are turning their creative energy to recycling, natural fibres and working with disadvantaged groups as they produce clothing and accessories - but it is an effort that is not free of tensions.Fashion Finds Its Green Style
Environmental awareness is dawning as a source of inspiration for a new generation of fashion designers.
Q&A: Invest in Young People in Latin America
To fight inequality, Latin American countries must double the financial commitment they made at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Marcela Suazo, the regional director for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), told IPS.
Q&A: Indigenous Rights Appeals Increasingly Reach Inter-American System
Standards relating to indigenous peoples' rights, laid down by the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, are increasingly being incorporated into the laws of countries in the region, according to Víctor Abramovich, First Vice President of the Commission.CHILE: Indigenous Protests on Several Fronts
The tense relations between the Chilean government of Michelle Bachelet and the country's large indigenous minority are far from easing up.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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