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ECONOMY-ARGENTINA: Unemployment and Shortage of Skilled Workers Coexist
Despite the fast growth of the Argentine economy, unemployment remains a tough nut to crack. While many areas face a dearth of skilled workers, a large number of unskilled workers find it impossible to land a job.
ARGENTINA: Cutting-Edge Model of Coastal Protection
Governments, environmentalists and private companies have just under four years to establish joint management of 43 protected areas on Argentina’s Atlantic coast, one of the world’s most productive and best preserved biomes.
Cutting-Edge Model of Coastal Protection
A non-governmental organisation has been tasked with managing a system comprising all of Argentina’s marine-coastal protected areas.
LATIN AMERICA: Enthusiasm for Nuclear Power Cooling Off
The nuclear disaster in Japan has revived the debate in Latin America on the pros and cons of expanding the use of nuclear energy. While both Argentina and Brazil, which had put the greatest emphasis on nuclear power, plan to continue down that road, other countries have put plans and unfinished projects on hold.ECONOMY-LATIN AMERICA: ‘Multilatinas’ in a Globalised World
Economic growth in Latin America is driving the expansion of corporations from this region throughout the world – even in countries of the industrialised North that formerly seemed out-of-reach.ARGENTINA: The Long Adios to Psychiatric Hospitals
Argentina has begun the process of closing down psychiatric hospitals and integrating mentally ill people into the community, like its South American neighbours Brazil and Chile.
ARGENTINA: Rural Slavery at Time of Record Earnings
Crowded into precarious mud-floored dorms or sheet-metal trailers or forced to live in tents of plastic sheeting, with neither piped water nor electricity, after working 14-hour days: these are the harsh conditions faced by hundreds of thousands of rural workers in Argentina despite bumper crops and record earnings for agribusiness.LATIN AMERICA: Fighting Rise in Non-Communicable Diseases
Some 50 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Latin America have formed a coalition to fight cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, diabetes and cancer, which have become the main causes of death and disability for people in the region.
Q&A: “The Sky Is My Laboratory”
When it comes to breaking through the glass ceiling, astronomers are among the most determined of female professionals. And they have high aspirations. "The sky is my laboratory," Argentine astrophysicist Gloria Dubner told IPS.ARGENTINA: Trial over Baby Theft Opens at Last
After 35 years of campaigning and legal action by the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, the first trial over the systematic theft of babies of political prisoners during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship began Monday.ARGENTINA: Early Treatment Can Stop Stuttering in Children
British actor Colin Firth's sensitivity and skill in portraying one man's determination to overcome stuttering, in "The King's Speech", did more than any campaign in Argentina to show people that with timely intervention, the lives of tens of thousands of children can change.ARGENTINA: Proposal to Go after Clients of Sex Trafficking Victims
An Argentine government proposal to crack down on clients benefiting from the trafficking of persons for the purposes of sexual exploitation has unleashed a heated debate between feminist organisations that support the idea and sex workers who are opposed to it.ARGENTINA: Theatre’s Far Fringe Gaining Spaces
Unconventional venues for high-quality experimental theatre have found a voice of their own in the Argentine capital's cultural scene, and are demanding freedom from the red tape that is hindering their development.COLOMBIA: A Chance for Peace
The Colombian government's greater openness to dialogue and the recent release of hostages by that country's FARC guerrillas have created a climate in which it is possible to move in the direction of a negotiated solution to an armed conflict that has dragged on for nearly half a decade.ARGENTINA: Pockets of Child Malnutrition Despite Economic Boom
Despite years of strong economic growth, record harvests and massive social assistance programmes, there are still places in Argentina untouched by the boom, where child malnutrition has even claimed lives.ARGENTINA: Sustained Effort Needed to Eradicate Chagas’ Disease
One of the potential impacts of climate change that arouses most concern is an increase in diseases transmitted by tropical insects, like Chagas' disease, Argentina's main endemic illness.LATIN AMERICA: Fast Ageing Population Brings New Challenges
Although Latin America still has an image of a young region, the base of the population pyramid is shrinking fast as a result of declining birth rates while the top section is expanding due to the growing numbers of elderly -- a phenomenon that poses enormous demographic challenges.ARGENTINA: Progress in the Fight for Gender Identity
"In my family, they always saw me as a girl, but at school they called me by my boy's name, which is why I dropped out," Paula Sosa, a transvestite who recently managed to change her name on her identity document, told IPS.ARGENTINA-BRAZIL: Powerful Women Leaders Face Similar Challenges
The high popularity levels of their predecessors smoothed the way for Cristina Fernández and Dilma Rousseff to become presidents of Argentina and Brazil. But they also share the challenge of governing the two biggest countries in South America's Mercosur trade bloc, in the shadow of the leaders who went before them.
Set on Fire – New Form of Sexist Violence in Argentina
"I knew he beat her but I never imagined that she would end up like this," Elsa Jerez told IPS, talking about her 24-year-old daughter Fátima Catán, a victim of domestic violence in Argentina who died of severe burns to her body.ARGENTINA: Disfiguring Fat Compounds Stigma of AIDS
Since antiretroviral drugs became widely available in many countries, AIDS has gradually come to be seen more like a chronic disease. But the treatment that restored the hope of people living with HIV has posed a new challenge, which is generally played down by health professionals.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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