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CHALLENGES 2004-2005: Argentina’s Recovery Has Not Yet Trickled Down
Although by all accounts Argentina's economic recovery is in full-swing, and shopping malls are packed with year-end buyers, poverty and unemployment levels remain high and the gap between rich and poor is steadily growing./ARTS WEEKLY/LITERATURE-ARGENTINA: Gardel’s Life, Meticulously Researched
After two decades of research and interviews based on 30,000 sources, ‘Carlos Gardel. La Biografía' (Carlos Gardel: The Biography) has finally come out in Argentina - a meticulously researched book that also promises to heat up the endless controversy over several aspects of Gardel's life./ARTS WEEKLY/ARGENTINA: Catholic Intolerance Vs Freedom of Expression
Ultra-conservative protestors and Catholic church authorities in Argentina have launched furious attacks on three art exhibitions in recent weeks, and have succeeded in shutting two of them down, on the grounds that they are an insult to Christianity.U.S. Returns to Dialogue on Climate Change
The United States and the OPEC countries agreed to participate in a May 2005 seminar on climate change, but they reject new negotiations. ''It's a positive step,'' says Raúl Estrada Oyuela, who proposed the face-saving meeting, approved at the close of the 10th Conference on Climate Change, in Buenos Aires.CLIMATE CHANGE: U.S. Agrees to Continued International Dialogue
The United States, world leader in emissions of ''greenhouse'' gases, will return to the table for international talks on climate change, a dialogue it abandoned three years ago.CLIMATE CHANGE: Who Will Pay the Price?
If the poor, developing countries are not responsible for climate change, then why should they have to pay the price for what the industrialised countries have done?CLIMATE CHANGE: Argentine President Heats Up North-South Debate
Argentine President Néstor Kirchner accused the countries of the industrialised North of double standards, noting that they relentlessly pursue repayment from their financial debtors, yet do everything possible to delay or completely avoid meeting their environmental debt to the developing world.CLIMATE CHANGE: Activists Question World Bank’s Commitment to Sustainable Development
While the World Bank says it encourages "environmentally responsible" economic growth in developing countries, activists wonder why it has supported 332 fossil fuel projects in the past 12 years.CLIMATE CHANGE: Bearing Witness with Painful Firsthand Knowledge
For Penina Moce, who lives on Kabara, one of the smallest of the Fiji islands, climate change is anything but an abstract concept. She sees its effects every day, as the Pacific Ocean eats away at the beaches of her village.CLIMATE CHANGE: OPEC Hinders Aid for the Developing World
The OPEC countries appear to be more concerned about the impact on their economies of measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions than about the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming for the nations of the developing South.CLIMATE CHANGE: Optimism Reigns in Talks
At the end of the first week of climate change talks in the Argentine capital, government delegates were upbeat about the progress made so far - an attitude that had not been seen in the past few annual conferences.CLIMATE CHANGE: OPEC Hinders Aid for the Developing World
The OPEC countries appear to be more concerned about the impact on their economies of measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions than about the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming for the nations of the developing South.WOMEN: In Bed with Bush for Four More Years
Four more years of President George W. Bush in the White House will pose a major obstacle for efforts to promote sexual and reproductive health in Latin America, according to Monty Eustace, the president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR).CLIMATE CHANGE: A Disappointing Start for the Clean Development Mechanism
In 1997, when the developing South agreed to a market incentive for industrialised nations that would allow them to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through development projects in poor countries, the expected result was investment in clean technologies.CLIMATE CHANGE: Poor and Vulnerable Countries Demand Compensation
"For our countries, climate change is more catastrophic than terrorism." This was how the delegate from Tanzania summed up the stance of the world's 48 least developed countries at the 10th Conference of Parties of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which opened Monday in Buenos Aires.CLIMATE CHANGE: Poor and Vulnerable Countries Demand Compensation
"For our countries, climate change is more catastrophic than terrorism." This was how the delegate from Tanzania summed up the stance of the world's 48 least developed countries at the 10th Conference of Parties of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-10), which opened Monday here in the Argentine capital.WOMEN: Contraception, the Missing Link in the Millennium Development Goals
A woman who only has children if and when she wants to will be better able to work and to cover her family's needs in terms of food, education and health care.CLIMATE CHANGE: Conference Expected to Make Strides
Unlike its lacklustre predecessors, the conference of the parties to the Climate Change Convention, to be held this month in Argentina, is expected to produce heated debates and significant advances, largely because of Russia's recent ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, but also due to a new format.ARGENTINA: Factories Without Bosses – and Without State Support
"We have gas masks, slingshots and stones to defend ourselves," said an employee at a worker-run tile factory in Argentina that is facing the threat of being shut down, because local authorities want the machinery seized to collect on a debt left unpaid by the former owners.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Police Accused of Social Cleansing
A court that convicted two police officers in the killing of a teenager also ordered an investigation into the private security agency they ran in well-to-do neighbourhoods, which may serve as the front for an alleged ring of police and civilian guards accused of murdering suspected juvenile delinquents.ARGENTINA-CHINA: Agreements Raise more Questions than Answers, for Now
After the euphoria over announcements of a possible flood of Chinese investment over the next 10 years, one question that analysts are asking is whether that capital will help boost Argentina's development or will merely serve to feed the Asian giant's voracious appetite for raw materials.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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