Full Coverage: North America

29.12.2005 The conference, titled “Taking the Lead…In the Digital Age: San Diego,” is intended to help professional and entrepreneurial women in the biosciences, life sciences and high-tech fields exchange ideas and opportunities.

Women in Technology International WITI), a leading professional organisation for tech-savvy women in USA, is organising this conference on February 13-14 at the Hilton Torrey Pines Hotel in La Jolla, CA.

28.12.2005 UNITED NATIONS, Dec 28 (OneWorld) - In 1994, the United States was the first nation to call for the elimination of landmines that killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of innocent people around the world.

28.12.2005 Environmentalists and business leaders are applauding politicians in seven northeast U.S. states for forming an alliance to mandate greenhouse gas emission reductions while keeping costs down.

28.12.2005 The George Bush administration has embarked on a new effort to pressure Iraq's militant Shiite party leaders to give up their control over internal security affairs that could lead the Shiites to reconsider their reliance on US troops, says Gareth Porter.

28.12.2005 Washington must announce that it will not tolerate further Israeli expansion in the Occupied Territories and will deduct from financial aid to Israel an amount equal to Israel's expenditures on settlements there and on construction and maintenance of the portion of the wall inside the West Bank, says Sarah Leah Whitson.

24.12.2005 UNITED NATIONS, Dec 23 (OneWorld) - Twenty-six years ago, the United Nations adopted a treaty that is often described by human rights experts as the international "Bill of Rights" for women.

23.12.2005 World Communication Association, North America organizes a conference on the theme “Global Perspectives on Communication and Culture” on August 2-5, 2006.

23.12.2005 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 23 (OneWorld) - Newly elected Bolivian President Evo Morales plans to decriminalize coca production, nationalize energy production, and challenge long-standing neo-liberal economic policies--and there may be little Washington can do about it.

22.12.2005 UNITED NATIONS, Dec 22 (OneWorld) - While senior United Nations officials and diplomats from other countries would like to see the International Criminal Court (ICC) playing an important role in the world community's efforts to deter attacks against innocent civilians during armed conflicts, the United States says no way.

21.12.2005 Twenty young people from Massachusetts are getting to reach out to and bond with peers in Afghanistan. The project was presented to the community at "A Night of Peace," where students shared pen-pal letters, photos, and presented an anthology of their writing on Afghanistan.

20.12.2005 After three decades of coups, chaos and bloodshed Afghanistan's parliament reopened yesterday amid hopes that it will root the nation's fledgling democracy.

20.12.2005 Venezuela, Bolivia, Haiti, Iraq....Despite some of the Bush administration's best efforts--and big payouts--previously marginalized classes seem to be discovering their democratic clout, says the international human rights group MADRE.

20.12.2005 Vietnamese victims of the defoliant known as Agent Orange wound up a month-long visit to the U.S. at the invitation of veterans, Vietnamese Americans and peace activists, to press their case for reparations from the U.S. government and the companies that made the deadly chemical.

20.12.2005 Accounts from detainees at Guantánamo reveal that as recently as last year the United States operated a secret prison in Afghanistan where detainees were subjected to torture and other mistreatment, a human rights group said.

19.12.2005 After tortuous negotiations spread over six days, a compromise trade deal was clinched among the World Trade Organisation's 150 members at a late-night session on Sunday. The deal gives rich countries an eight-year time frame to end export subsidies. Accordingly, the likes of the US, the EU and Japan will phase out such subsidies by 2013. The G-110, led by India and Brazil, wanted these subsidies removed by 2010.

16.12.2005 Bolivians will elect a president Sunday in what a former president has called "the most important election of our lives," but the Bush administration is up in arms over the likely ascendance of Evo Morales, an indigenous politician and leader of the country's coca leaf producers.

16.12.2005 India will have to pull up its socks if it has to retain its edge in the global offshoring scenario as China is rapidly catching up with improved communication and training facilities in English, world-class infrastructure and strong urban facilities. Rahul Kumar attends a seminar in New Delhi on offshoring.

16.12.2005 The US government has consistently made the morally wrong choices on climate change, says an article in the new issue of World Watch magazine's Peak Oil Forum, but experiences in Oregon show how new approaches are garnering positive outcomes.

15.12.2005 HONG KONG, Dec 15 (IPS) - Once downtrodden at international meetings, developing countries, led by India and Brazil, are showing renewed assertiveness in the face of pressure from industrialised nations that are lobbying to open new markets at a global trade meeting here.

15.12.2005 For many in the U.S., Hurricane Katrina opened a space for new kinds of conversation about what kind of country this is and what kind of country we want it to be. Despite all the divisive talk about Red States and Blue States, the vast majority are united in wanting government to care for its citizens, not leave those basic responsibilities in the hands of corporations.