Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean

30.06.2007 In Brazil, environmental technocrats talk of saving the rainforest with satellite technology - but loggers, miners and farmers keep finding scams to evade the law, report Sue Branford and Jan Rocha.

28.06.2007 GENEVA, Jun 28 (IPS) - Global civil society leaders called on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) Thursday to use both international channels and their muscle on the ground for applying pressure on governments to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

26.06.2007 NEW YORK, Jun 26 (OneWorld) - As the U.S. Senate voted today to resume debate on its immigration reform bill, a new poll brings the voices of those at the heart of the debate -- undocumented workers themselves -- into the mix.

26.06.2007 "Out with the old and in with the new"? Or an "imprudent" decision that harms human rights? After 60 years of diplomatic relations with Taiwan, the Costa Rican president announced this month these ties have been broken in favor of establishing relations with China.

25.06.2007 Manuel Rojas and 24 other workers took the helm when executives shut down the ceramic factory where he had worked for 35 years. The seven years since have been difficult, but rewarding.

21.06.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jun 21 (OneWorld) - The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to take what advocates are calling a historic vote this week to close the largest U.S. military training ground for soldiers from Central and South America.

20.06.2007 Nearly 20,000 members of Brazil's Landless Workers Movement marched through the streets of Brasilia last week to hold Lula and his government accountable for "impeding agrarian reform."

14.06.2007 SANTIAGO, Jun 14 (IPS) - Human rights groups in Chile described General Raul Iturriaga Neumann as "cowardly" for fleeing the justice system, which sentenced him to five years in prison for the 1974 forced disappearance of a leftwing activist.

14.06.2007 The violent targeting of Colombia’s indigenous communities “are truly acts of genocide,” a UN official has said. The United States has the power and responsibility to step in, says a leading U.S.-based non-profit.

11.06.2007 An international public health agency called this week for the elimination of industrial trans fatty acids from food suppliers all over the Americas. Experts from the task force concluded that trans fats increase the risk of heart disease and possibly the risk of sudden cardiac death.

09.06.2007
HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, Jun 8 (IPS) - The Group of Eight industrialised countries suffered a setback Friday in its plan to strengthen intellectual property rights through "promoting innovation - protecting innovation" when the five developing world's leaders -- China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico -- forced a key change in the final statement.

07.06.2007 The Web2forDev 2007 is the first global meet to discuss how new Internet tools, commonly known as Web 2.0, can be used for the advantage of Southern actors to more efficiently network, collaborate and exchange information in the field of rural and natural resource management. CTA, an EU funded organization, will support three journalists from the ACP countries to attend the conference and lead its daily coverage. Read on for more...

05.06.2007 It has been seven years since Ecuador's Sarayaku community began fighting an information war with the oil company CGC to keep control of their territories.

05.06.2007 Indigenous peoples and NGOs have met in the Amazon town of Altamira in Brazil to discuss their concerns about a series of hydroelectric dams planned for the Xingu river, one of the Amazon's main tributaries.
From Survival

04.06.2007 Child undernutrition in Central America cost $6.7 billion a year, or over 6 percent of the region’s entire gross domestic product – a burden that severely undermines international and national efforts to eradicate hunger and poverty, says a new UN report.
From World Food Programme

01.06.2007 BERLIN, Jun 1 (IPS) - The five strongest developing countries -- Brazil, China, India, Mexico, and South Africa -- will have a place at the Group of Eight summit of the richest countries Jun. 6-8 in Heiligendamm, Germany, both as partners and as competitors of the industrialised world.

01.06.2007 A remote Amazonian tribe are blockading a major highway in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso in protest at a series of hydroelectric dams that will destroy their vital fishing grounds.
From Survival International