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Mexican Farms Need a Water Revolution
Without financing, many Mexican farmers cannot improve their ageing irrigation systems, which are essential if Mexico is to withstand the effects of climate change and reduce its emissions of greenhouse-effect gases.
MEXICO: Summit Host Cancun No Model for Climate Change
The beauty of the Mexican Caribbean resort city of Cancún may have been one reason for choosing it to host the upcoming global summit on climate change. But Cancún has little to recommend it as a model for adapting to the challenges posed by climate change.
Summit Host Cancún No Model for Climate Change
When the delegates arrive for the global climate summit in late November, Cancún cannot pose as a model city for confronting the impacts of climate change.MEXICO: Tens of Thousands of Missing Central American Migrants
The last time Estela Domínguez of Mexico saw her daughter Estela Paz was in April 2006, when the young woman left home with the goal of reaching Las Vegas, Nevada.The Diaspora Gaining a Political Voice
Pablo Rodríguez, a Mexican migrant living in the United States, is a congressman in the Zacatecas state government in central Mexico, thanks to years of hard work by migrants’ organisations to recover the political rights people lose when they cross the border.MEXICO: No Solution in Sight for Apaxco Pollution Conflict
A waste processing company and the surrounding community are at odds over the operation of a plant that provides energy for Mexico's cement industry.MEXICO: Native Tourism Businesses Need to Sell Themselves Better
Native tourism companies dedicated to the preservation and promotion of indigenous culture and to sustainable development face a number of hurdles, especially in terms of marketing and commercialising their services.Migrant Workers in Mexico Left to Hoe Their Own Row
Every year since 1975, Castro Solano has left his home in the town of Tlapa de Comonfort, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, to work in other parts of the country as a seasonal farm labourer.
Millennium Goals Far Off for Mexico’s Indigenous Population
It is unlikely that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a series of anti-poverty targets adopted by the international community, will be met for Mexico's indigenous people, a new United Nations report says.
LATIN AMERICA: Radioactive Attack on Flesh-Eating Screw-Worm
A biological control method used to eradicate screw-worm, a livestock parasite, in the United States, Mexico and Central America, has just been tested successfully in South America, where its adoption is being considered in the countries of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur): Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.Homophobia-Free Churches in Mexico
Alejandro González left the Catholic Church to join the gay-supportive Metropolitan Community Churches in Mexico, in search of a more open and tolerant place of worship.Gypsies, or How to Be Invisible in Mexico
In the story "Gente bella" (Beautiful People), the Mexican dictator of the day sends a mission to Europe to import 300 families and thus "whiten the race, to put an end to laziness." Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria cheats him and sends, for the price of gold, gypsies.MEXICO-U.S.: Visas No Guarantee for Migrant Worker Rights
Mexican Alberto Rivero joined the ranks of seasonal workers in the United States in 2005, and for the last three years he has had to pay all the expenses associated with his visa, transportation and housing, although the law states that these are the responsibility of his U.S. employer.RIGHTS-LATIN AMERICA: Making Forced Disappearance “Disappear”
Agustín Cetrángolo from Argentina is tireless in his fight to bring to justice those responsible for the forced disappearance of his father, who was seized in 1978 by the dictatorship of that South American country and was held in at least two different concentration camps in Buenos Aires before he went missing forever.
MEXICO: Native Women Raped by Soldiers Find Justice at Regional Court
"I dream of returning to my community and for everything to be normal again, although that won't be easy," Valentina Rosendo, one of two indigenous women who found justice at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, told IPS.Haitian Women at Increased Risk of Trafficking
The January earthquake that devastated Haiti put women and girls in the poorest country in the hemisphere at an increased risk of falling prey to people trafficking, activists and experts warn.Mexican Activist Wins Prestigious RFK Prize
An anthropologist and human rights defender who has worked for years with the indigenous people in one of Mexico's poorest and most marginalised regions has been awarded one of the world's most important human rights prizes.MEXICO: Soaring Bottled Water Use Highlights Mistrust of Tap Water
More bottled water is consumed per capita in Mexico than in any other country in the world, according to a U.S. consultancy -- a fact that alarms non-governmental organisations because it highlights the lack of access to safe tap water.
LATIN AMERICA: Five Million Women Have Fallen Prey to Trafficking Networks
The fight against human trafficking in Latin America is ineffective and has led to the emergence of intra-regional markets for the trade, according to experts and activists meeting this Hjek in this Mexican city.MEXICO: Artists Push ‘Other’ Bicentennial Viewpoint
"The homeland is not the flag / the anthem is not the country / that is just the varnish / that adorns the outside," states a poem written in Spanish by artist Enrique Cisneros in reference to Mexico's ongoing bicentennial celebrations.
MEXICO: Global Forums to Focus on Abuses Against Immigrants
Civil society organisations from around the world are revving up to highlight how governments -- especially the United States and Mexico -- violate the rights of immigrants.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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