Full Coverage: Latin America & Caribbean
October 2008
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26.10.2008
Survivors of this season's four devastating hurricanes in Haiti will receive a boost from the United Nations fund set up to help in the wake of major disasters, the UN relief chief announced after visiting the struggling Caribbean country.
more...Related topics/regions: [Haiti] Image: A family outside their home in Leogane, a town in southern Haiti hit by Hurricane Gustav
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17.10.2008
President Álvaro Uribe's administration is jeopardising efforts to secure justice for crimes committed by paramilitaries and their accomplices in Colombia, according to an international rights group.
more...Related topics/regions: [Colombia] Image: © Unimondo
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02.10.2008
Brazil has announced new measures designed to stem an accelerating assault on the Amazon’s rainforests – on the same day as the nation’s space agency released figures showing that the amount of Amazon forest cleared in August was triple the area cleared in August 2007.
more...From: WWF International Related topics/regions: [Brazil] Image: Amazon parrot © United Nations Association of the UK
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