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ARGENTINA: Riachuelo Factories Must Clean Up or Close Down
In an unprecedented move, Argentina's Supreme Court held a public hearing with the aim of securing commitments from the State and private companies to live up to the clean-up plan for the Matanza-Riachuelo basin, a byword for pollution in this South American country.HUMAN RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Compensation for Exile
Thousands of Argentines fled the country because of political repression in the 1970s, leaving everything behind. Three decades later, a democratic Argentina is looking at how to compensate them, as it has already indemnified the relatives of the detained-disappeared, those who were abducted as young children, and former political prisoners of the military dictatorship.SOUTH AMERICA: Getting Real About Underage Drug Consumption
Out-of-control drug abuse among South American youth - myth or reality? Could societal perception have blown the phenomenon way out of proportion? Have we zeroed in on this one issue at the expense of efforts to address the broader context of social problems like poverty and marginalisation?ENVIRONMENT-SOUTH AMERICA: Writing on the Wall for Paper Industry
Before printing out this article, carefully consider whether or not you really need a paper copy. According to a new report by Greenpeace Argentina, the growing demand for paper in industrialised countries is putting devastating pressure on natural resources like water and land in several countries in South America.ENVIRONMENT-ARGENTINA: Riachuelo Clean-Up Plan Sparks Hope
The government of Argentina has unveiled a comprehensive clean-up project for the Matanza-Riachuelo river basin - a waterway whose name is currently synonymous with pollution. The plan envisions an authority with policing power over a resource that winds through several districts in the capital.ARGENTINA: Activists Up in Arms Over Controversial Nuclear Energy Plan
Despite the opposition of environmentalists, the Argentine government launched a controversial plan Wednesday to complete a partially-built nuclear power plant, study the feasibility of building a fourth plant (two are already operational), and resume production of enriched uranium and heavy water.ARGENTINA: Government to Offer Cash for Guns
With the aim of reducing violence and crime, Argentina plans to implement a disarmament campaign similar to Brazil's, in which the State will offer money in exchange for weapons in the hands of private citizens.ARGENTINA: Accord Puts End to Indigenous Hunger Strike
After a 32-day hunger strike in the headquarters of the provincial government of Chaco, in northeastern Argentina, a group of indigenous activists reached an agreement Tuesday with government officials and called off their fast.DEVELOPMENT: Women Matter – In All of the Millennium Goals
In order to advance towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), gender equality cannot merely be limited to a number of specific objectives, but must be the lens through which all the targets are viewed, say experts and representatives of women's movements in Argentina.ARGENTINA: Book Sheds Light on Enigmatic President
Who is Néstor Kirchner, really? This is the main question that Walter Curia attempts to answer in his book, currently a best-seller in Argentina, about the country's outspoken president, who enjoys high approval ratings at home but has had frequent public clashes with several governments in the region.ARGENTINA: Both Foreigners and Locals Drive Tourism Boom
Since the 2002 devaluation of the peso, Argentina has not only drawn increasing numbers of foreign visitors, but many locals, who in the 1990s took advantage of the strong peso to travel abroad, have turned their gaze instead to their own vast country as a tourist destination.ARGENTINA: Indigenous Protesters Set to Starve to Death for Land
A group of indigenous people in the Argentine province of Chaco have been on a hunger strike for 21 days, in the provincial capitol building. They are in a windowless hearing room furnished only with a table and eight chairs, with the electric lights switched on day and night, and surrounded by police.ARGENTINA: Residents Face Uranium Threat in Water Supply
Argentine judicial authorities are investigating cases of uranium contamination around the Ezeiza Atomic Centre, in Buenos Aires province. A married couple who have been diagnosed with cancer have been accepted as plaintiffs in a related lawsuit.ARGENTINA: Despite Boom, Farmers Are Government’s Loudest Critics
In spite of the boom enjoyed by agriculture under the administration of President Néstor Kirchner, farmers, and especially cattle breeders, are the government's fiercest critics today.
Argentine Water Supply Faces Uranium Threat
Water intended for human consumption may have been contaminated by the Ezeiza Atomic Center. Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the World Health Organization and local authorities will conduct a new assessment.ARGENTINA: Unemployment Falling Faster than Poverty
The cycle of high unemployment which began in Argentina in the mid-1990s is apparently drawing to a close. However, the creation of new jobs has still not reduced the indices of poverty, extreme poverty and inequality to the levels of 10 or 12 years ago.SOUTH AMERICA: Reconciling Mega-Projects and the Environment
Following announcements of several large-scale joint infrastructure projects among South American countries, social organisations have called for common legislation to protect natural resources and the environment.ARGENTINA: Industrial Design + Garbage = Jobs
With the support of three industrial designers and an architect, a group of informal garbage collectors in the Argentine capital has come together in a project to design and produce furniture and other objects out of waste materials.SOUTH AMERICA: Less Asymmetry, More Social Development in Mercosur
With calls for solidarity with the bloc's smaller countries and a greater commitment to social development still ringing in the air, the 30th Mercosur (Southern Common Market) summit drew to a close Friday in Argentina.SOUTH AMERICA: Mercosur Counter-Summit Urges Socially-Conscious Integration
Social activists took to the streets in this north-central Argentine city and presented the leaders of South America's Mercosur trade bloc with several proposals for building an alternative model for integration.SOUTH AMERICA: Who Controls the Water?
Social movements that have been working hard in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay to put water services that were privatised in the 1990s back in state hands met in this Argentine city to share their experiences and decide what the next steps are, now that several corporations are pulling out of South America.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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