Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

26.02.2007 As the UK commemorates the end of the slave trade, a new Haitian sculpture will be unveiled today in Liverpool's Merseyside Maritime Museum. It will tour the country, taking in London and Bristol, before returning to Liverpool where it will remain on permanent display in the new International Slavery Museum, which opens on 23 August.

22.02.2007 Many in developed countries think only of immigration's impact on domestic economies. But the flip side of that--thousands of citizens leaving home for the "greener pastures" of wealthier lands--has significant consequences for the home country's economic and social fabric.

20.02.2007 Cancellation of a Guyanese contract with a British water company - apparently for poor performance - underlines the point that privatisation is no solution to the global water crisis, a leading aid policy lobby group has warned.

14.02.2007 The shift in tactics by the United Nations stabilization mission and the Haitian government towards direct confrontation with armed gangs will only temporarily reduce insecurity, especially while dubious ties with gang leaders and supporters remain, ActionAid said today.

12.02.2007 Every year on Valentine's Day, millions of Americans head to their local florist shop or supermarket to buy flowers for a friend, spouse, or family member. Few of us ever ask where all these flowers come from or who helped grow and pick them.
From: Monthly Review

11.02.2007 NEW YORK, Feb 10 (OneWorld) - Wary of the fast-deteriorating human rights conditions in Colombia, church leaders and aid groups in the United States are calling for the Bush administration to reconsider its current policy toward Bogota.

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.

05.02.2007 Peruvian women, displaced by the country’s guerilla war, are succeeding amid the slums of Lima with the help of HandCrafting Justice and the markets it finds for their artisanal products.

01.02.2007 "This visit has been eye-opening," said U.S. Congressman Donald Payne upon his return from Colombia Monday. "I was moved by the stories I heard about the very real effects of the conflict on Colombia's people."