Full Coverage: Nicaragua

28.07.2009 Nicaragua’s total ban on abortions is endangering the lives of girls and women, denying them life-saving treatment, preventing health professionals from practicing effective medicine and contributing to an increase in maternal deaths across the country, says a new report.

06.05.2009 Innovations from Ethiopia, India, Nicaragua, the US and Uganda are named as finalists for this year's Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.

24.03.2008 Photos, video clips, and diary entries from one woman's trip to an agricultural community in rural Nicaragua acquaint readers with women like Leticia and Betilde, who each survive on less than $1 a day.

14.09.2007 In the wake of the devastating Hurricane Felix, aid organizations are emphasizing that disasters must be met with both immediate aid and sustainable redevelopment efforts, with a particular focus on women.

06.09.2007 Hundreds of families lost their homes and all their possessions when Hurricane Felix ripped through rural villages along Nicaragua's north Atlantic coast, reports an international women's group raising money to support the victims.

05.09.2007 An international human rights monitor has called on the Nicaraguan Supreme Court to repeal a blanket ban on abortion passed late last year that prohibits abortion even in cases of rape, incest, or life-threatening pregnancy.
From: Human Rights Watch

08.02.2007 A fire burned much of the Nicaraguan town of Waspam last week, destroying many homes and a marketplace that more than 100 communities depend on for their livelihoods. A U.S.-based human rights group breaks the news in a letter to supporters.

29.11.2006 Farmers helping their brothers, so that they can help themselves to find solutions and not be dependent on the technician or on the bank. That is Campesino a Campesino.

21.11.2006 Debt campaigners are pleased about Friday's decision to waive odious debts assigned to five Latin American countries, but are concerned that the relief could still be watered down and subject to unfair conditions.
From: Jubilee USA

13.11.2006 Nicargua has become the third country in the western hemisphere to outlaw abortion entirely, even in cases of rape and incest and when the woman's life is at risk.

04.11.2006 Nicaragua is gearing up for its national elections on Sunday, November 5. For the last year, Nicaragua's complicated electoral panorama has been further convoluted by a string of U.S. representatives seeking to ward off an electoral victory by Sandinista (FSLN) leader and former president Daniel Ortega.

22.09.2006 Two former warring rivals have set aside their differences to work through the political system to promote a common vision of peace and development.
From: Minority Rights Group International

09.08.2006 El Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos CENIDH, por medio del Director Ejecutivo, el Doctor Bayardo Izabá Soliz, interpuso el 03 de agosto ante la Fiscalía General de la República, una denuncia formal contra el Director de la Policía Nacional, el Primer Comisionado Edwin Cordero Ardila.

27.04.2006 In Nicaragua, the US government continues to flex its muscles to achieve an electoral defeat of Daniel Ortega in the November presidential elections. Ortega, president during the Sandinista revolution in the 1980s, is running for president for the fourth time since his first defeat in 1990.

01.03.2006 Since it's founding in 1982 Operation Smile has been providing free reconstructive surgery to children with facial deformities in 24 countries around the world, helping end the isolation, embarrassment, and health problems associated with cleft lips and cleft palates.

15.12.2005 Earlier this year a debt cancellation package was agreed for 18 of the world's most impoverished countries, but now the IMF has announced a final test must be passed by six of them to qualify for the January write-off. Africa Action wants you to join them this week in telling the IMF that more delays cost more lives!

16.05.2005 Nicaraguan fruit plantation workers, exposed to the pesticide Nemagon used by Dole, Chiquita, and Del Monte in the 1970s, are today suffering from incurable illness and many of their children were born with horrific deformities. Though the chemical was known to be toxic to humans and banned in the United States, the companies continued to use it in other countries without disclosing the health risks. The workers have never been compensated.

13.04.2005 As the U.S. Congress prepares to consider the free trade treaty with Central America known as CAFTA, Oxfam America's partners from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador sent fair trade advocates to Washington D.C. The representatives gave firsthand accounts of the adverse consequences of CAFTA on small farmers, agricultural workers, indigenous people, and the environment in Central America. Hear their stories.

29.03.2005 Join MADRE for a very special Voyages with a Vision delegation to Nicaragua from May 24-31, 2005 to inaugurate the expansion of MADRE’s sister organization, Casa Museo, and celebrate MADRE’s 20+-year history of working with Indigenous and human rights organizations on the North Atlantic Coast. For over two decades, MADRE has supported community-based women’s groups on the country’s North Atlantic Coast to promote women’s human rights and the collective rights of Indigenous Peoples through a women’s health clinic, leadership development trainings, sexual and reproductive health workshops, and programs to combat violence against women, drug addiction, and malnutrition.

07.09.2004

Co-operative coffee in Haiti © Cooperativa cafetera en Haití / Intermón Oxfam

The worldwide coffee crisis has had a devastating effect on Nicaraguans, with some farming families surviving on less than 50% of what they earned five years ago. Mercy Corps, a U.S.-based group is working with local organizations in Nicaragua to protect the livelihoods and preserve the traditions of families suffering from the coffee crisis.