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ARGENTINA: Tens of Thousands of Savers to Finally Recover Funds
Five years after Argentina's economic and political meltdown, when the savings of around one million people were frozen in the banks on government order, the courts finally decided on a solution for tens of thousands of people still unable to access their funds.ARGENTINA: Continued Green Light for Destruction of Forests
Despite the continued destruction of Argentina's forests due to the advance of the agricultural frontier, a draft law that would have declared a "state of emergency" for the country's forests was postponed until next year.CHALLENGES 2006-2007: China Fuels Mercosur Agricultural Boom
Grains, beef, fruit, fish, coffee, milk, sugar, honey, juice and even wine - all of this and more is produced in both quantity and quality by the members and associates of South America's Mercosur trade bloc, and will continue to be thanks to the huge and growing demand from giants like China and India.ARGENTINA: View from the Beach: Sunrise – and Smokestack
Ñandubaysal, the prettiest riverside resort near the Argentine town of Gualeguaychú, is on the Uruguay River, which forms the border between Argentina and Uruguay. On their way to the enormous Río de la Plata estuary, the river's clear waters flow past the resort's sandy beaches - as well as the smokestack of a paper pulp mill on the opposite shore.ENVIRONMENT-ARGENTINA: Christmas at the Roadblock
With a nativity scene and a big Christmas tree set up on the highway to the nearby bridge leading to Uruguay, residents of the Argentine town of Gualeguaychú plan to continue blocking traffic between the two countries until a pulp plant being built on the other side of the river moves elsewhereENVIRONMENT-ARGENTINA: Christmas at the Roadblock
With a nativity scene and a big Christmas tree set up on the highway to the nearby bridge leading to Uruguay, residents of the Argentine town of Gualeguaychú plan to continue blocking traffic between the two countries until a pulp plant being built on the other side of the river moves elsewhere.ARGENTINA: Residents Rebel Against Apartment Towers
Upset by the multiplication of apartment towers in neighbourhoods of mostly single-family dwellings, residents in Buenos Aires are calling for a halt to a wave of construction that threatens to push water and sanitation services to the brink of collapse and leave the city without green spaces.MEDIA-ARGENTINA: Journalists for Gender PAR-ity
Argentina's first national network of journalists with a gender vision intends to promote the enjoyment of full citizenship by women, and to point out the ways in which women's rights are infringed on a daily basis.
Buenos Aires Residents Rebel Against Apartment Towers
Residents fear that the Caballito neighborhood's utilities could collapse from the unregulated proliferation of apartment towers. By 2008 an estimated 40,000 more people will live in the district.ENVIRONMENT: Latin America Unites to Defend Whales
Opposition to commercial hunting of and lethal scientific research on whales and dolphins has brought together 12 Latin American countries, which have begun to discuss a future regional agreement for preservation, in opposition to the Japanese-led bloc of countries that defend hunting.ARGENTINA: 'Irrefutable Evidence' Against Iran in AMIA Case
Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman says he has irrefutable evidence that backs the international arrest warrants issued at his request for a former Iranian president and eight other former government officials, who are wanted in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires.COMMUNICATIONS-ARGENTINA: Indigenous People On the Air
When the project emerged three years ago, it involved communication between indigenous communities within one Argentine province, but it rapidly grew into a larger network that broadcasts their voice from more than a hundred community and commercial radio stations in the north of the country.ARGENTINA: Women Have a New Tool against Discrimination
The Argentine Congress has ratified the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), after a tug-of-war between the forces of feminist organisations and the Catholic Church that has lasted for years.ARGENTINA: Residents Say “Stop the Spraying!”
Cultivation of genetically modified soybeans is expanding in Argentina, and with it, the use of herbicides. The "Paren de fumigar" (Stop the Fumigation) campaign warns against agro-chemical spraying in urban areas, as activists collect information about its impacts in order to denounce it.ARGENTINA: Flaws in Acclaimed Sexual Health Plan
Three years after it got under way, Argentina's sexual and reproductive health programme has spread from 124,000 beneficiaries to 2.3 million. But monitoring by non-governmental organisations has brought to light some problems in its implementation.ARGENTINA: Curbing Discriminatory Use of Government Advertising
With the backing of journalists and lawyers, an Argentine non-governmental organisation has launched a proposal for regulating official advertising, in order to prevent the arbitrariness with which governments reward media outlets that support them and cold-shoulder the rest.
Residents Say “Stop the Spraying!”
A campaign is launched in Argentina against herbicides used on genetically modified soybean crops, the country's main export.ARGENTINA: Clamping Down on Human Trafficking
After two years of reports of isolated incidents, and a sustained effort by civil society to make human trafficking a visible phenomenon, the Argentine government has announced a policy for its prevention, helping its victims and punishing those responsible for the crime.RIGHTS: Women’s Groups Push for Gender Parity in OAS
Women's groups in Latin America have launched a campaign to press the Organisation of American States (OAS), which has never had a female secretary general, to live up to the principle of gender parity at the highest levels, where women are remarkable only for their absence.ARGENTINA: Silent Extinction of Mbya Guarani People
Mbya Guaraní children living in the subtropical rainforests of Argentina's northeastern province of Misiones are dying from preventable illnesses, and extra provision by the government of money, medicine and food seems unable to halt the catastrophe.ARGENTINA: Agriculture, Both Victim and Villain in Climate Change
The Argentine government is concerned about the effect of climate change on agricultural and stock-raising activities, the pillar of the country's economy. But it turns out that the countryside itself, while generously producing grains, legumes and cattle, also contributes enormously to global warming.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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