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ARGENTINA: Belated Recognition for Veterans of Malvinas/Falkland War
This Tuesday the Argentine government announced a substantial increase in the pensions paid to veterans of the 1982 Malvinas/Falkland Islands War. The decision is a first step towards recognising the participants in a conflict that continues to cause suffering and death even 22 years later.ARGENTINA: Official Advertising Used to Squeeze Local Media
Official advertising is used in Argentina as a weapon that is capable of determining the survival or death of local media outlets in the provinces, say activists and academics.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: When Protesting Becomes a Crime
Social and labour organisations in Argentina demanded Monday that the national government and provincial authorities support a proposal for a draft law that would lead to the dismissal of cases against 4,800 people facing charges based solely on their participation in protests.'The Kyoto Protocol is just a first step'
Tierramérica spoke with Joke Waller-Hunter, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and in charge of organizing the upcoming conference of parties to that agreement, to take place in December in Buenos Aires.CORRUPTION-ARGENTINA: Residents Rebel Against Small-Town Mayor
Nearly six months after the federal government assumed direct rule of the northern Argentine province of Santiago del Estero, the residents of a small town in the region are threatening to stage a "popular uprising", demanding that the municipal government also be swept free of corrupt officials.CORRUPTION-ARGENTINA: Local Residents Rebel Against Mayor
Nearly six months after the federal government assumed direct rule of the northern Argentine province of Santiago del Estero, the residents of a small town in the region are threatening to stage a "popular uprising", demanding that the municipal government also be swept free of corrupt officials.POPULATION-LATAM: Progress for Women, But Poverty Rates Still High
The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have made progress in the past 10 years in terms of empowering women and ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health services.POPULATION-LATAM: Progress for Women, But Poverty Rates Still High
The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have made progress in the past 10 years in terms of empowering women and ensuring access to sexual and reproductive health services.ARGENTINA: Victims’ Families Divided Over Jewish Centre Bombing Verdict
The Argentine court ruling that acquitted the only five suspects in prison in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre has met with mixed reactions from the families of the victims.CLIMATE CHANGE: Another Treaty Custom-Made for Washington?
The 188 countries that are party to the Climate Change Convention will try to find a way, at their December meeting in Argentina, to get the world's biggest generator of greenhouse gas emissions, the United States, to return to the debate on global warming.ARGENTINA: Auctioned Nature Reserve – Unwelcome New Challenge for Environmentalists
Environmentalists in Argentina are used to fighting pollution, loss of biodiversity and the risk of extinction of species of fauna and flora. But they are now facing a challenge without any local precedent: the sale of a nature reserve to agribusiness interests.ARGENTINA: Verdict on Jewish Centre Bombing Clears Suspects, Condemns Probe
After a nearly three-year trial, a court in Argentina Thursday acquitted five suspected accessories in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre, the worst terrorist attack in this country's history.ARGENTINA: Activists, Law Experts in Novel Seminar on Rights of Unemployed
A Supreme Court justice, jurists, and law students are taking part in a unique seminar in Argentina Thursday and Friday that was organised on the initiative of a group of unemployed workers, with the aim of discussing and raising awareness of their basic constitutional rights.ARGENTINA: Another Supreme Court Justice Resigns, to Avoid Impeachment
Adolfo Vázquez resigned Wednesday from Argentina's Supreme Court to avoid impeachment, becoming the fourth justice to leave the Court since President Néstor Kirchner took office in May 2003.ARGENTINA: Small Far-Left Groups at the Core of Anti-IMF Protests
Small groups of far-left activists were at the core of Tuesday's sometimes violent street demonstrations in the Argentine capital, held to protest the visit by International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing-Director Rodrigo Rato.ARGENTINA: Kirchner, Progressive on Rights, Flunks Ecology
Argentine President Néstor Kirchner has earned the respect of human rights groups and other civil society organisations in his 15 months in office. But ecologists criticise what they describe as his inconsistent and ineffective environmental policy.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Making Those Responsible for the Dirty War Pay – Literally
Daniel Tarnopolsky was 18 years old when the security forces in Argentina took away his father, mother, sister, brother and sister-in-law one night in 1976. He never saw any of them alive again.RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Making Those Responsible for the Dirty War Pay – Literally
Daniel Tarnopolsky was 18 years old when the security forces in Argentina took away his father, mother, sister, brother and sister-in-law one night in 1976. He never saw any of them alive again.ARGENTINA: Mapuches Accuse Benetton of Seeking Gold on Their Land
Mapuche Indians in Argentina denounced Thursday that the Italian clothing manufacturer Benetton, which bought up 970,000 hectares in the southern part of the country, owns a mining company that found gold on land that a Mapuche family was evicted from by the courts in May.ARGENTINA: Mapuches Accuse Benetton of Seeking Gold on Their Land
Mapuche Indians in Argentina denounced Thursday that the Italian clothing manufacturer Benetton, which bought up 970,000 hectares in the southern part of the country, owns a mining company that found gold on land that a Mapuche family was evicted from by the courts in May.ENVIRONMENT-ARGENTINA: Up to Their Necks in Garbage
Around 80 heads stuck out of a mountain of garbage piled near the famous Obelisk monument in the centre of the capital of Argentina Monday.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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