Full Coverage: North America

29.07.2005 Depois de reforçar o embargo à Cuba, os Estados Unidos criaram esta semana uma "coordenadoria para a transição cubana", com o objetivo, segundo o governo norte-americano, de "acelerar o fim da tirania cubana". A iniciativa foi duramente criticada pelo governo de Cuba, que a classificou como uma pequena mostra das agressões do governo dos Estados Unidos contra a ilha.

29.07.2005 A new international climate change programme adopted by nations that rejected the Kyoto Protocol has been attacked as "business as usual for the United States" by environmental campaigners.

29.07.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 28 (OneWorld) - At least 24,865 Iraqi civilians have died since the U.S.-led coalition began its war in their country but the real figure is unknown because coalition forces, flouting the Geneva Conventions, refuse to aid an accurate count, said a leading medical journal.

29.07.2005 Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are calling on President Bush to release all of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' writings. It's not up to the White House to determine what information the Senate needs to get to know the nominee, a prominent Senate leader charged.

28.07.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 28 (OneWorld) - Civil rights activists are demanding that the federal government reauthorize the 1965 Voting Rights Act, saying voters' most fundamental democratic right would be routinely denied if the law is allowed to lapse.

28.07.2005 The Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq has appealed for help in fighting a proposed constitutional provision it says would give religious clerics the authority to sanction violations of their rights, including denial of freedom of movement and travel, inheritance, and child custody.

28.07.2005 Omar Deghayes is a British resident who is being held in Guantánamo Bay on evidence that is demonstrably false, says lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, three years after Deghayes was seized and disappeared into the ‘legal black hole’ of Camp Delta.

28.07.2005 A US-led Asia-Pacific deal on greenhouse gas emissions offers no alternative to binding caps on pollution levels, says a leading environmental group.

28.07.2005 The International Criminal Court should prosecute the perpetrators and collaborators of the current war against Iraq and the related international crimes arising from occupation, the unofficial World Tribunal on Iraq has demanded.

28.07.2005 Kyoto holdouts Australia and the U.S. are expected to announce a plan to address climate change on Thursday, but campaigners and politicians around the world are wary that the deal is an attempt to undermine the otherwise widely accepted Kyoto protocol and promote U.S. technologies. The pact is not thought to include any targets or timetables for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

28.07.2005 On a recent trip to New York, writer Steven Laffoley crossed paths with two TV news reporters. First, a network news host with something to say, says nothing. And then, a reporter with nothing to say, says something. Where are the facts? Where is the truth?

27.07.2005 International agency Oxfam called on US Members of Congress today to reject the Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Central American countries and the Dominican Republic (DR-CAFTA.) Oxfam believes that the agreement, in its current form, will do more harm than good and will endanger the livelihood of many thousands of small farmers who already live in poverty.

27.07.2005 Iraq's minister of civil society activities, Ala'a al-Safi, believes his country needs a timeline--any timeline--for U.S. troop withdrawal. Support for a timeline has reached nearly 50% in the country's National Assembly too, he says.

27.07.2005 Rock ‘n Roll has a new partner: Sunshine. Throughout Austin, Texas outdoor events are tapping into the sun, and skeptics--who argued solar-power would diminish sound quality--are being proven wrong: the stages provide sound for up to five-thousand people and are receiving rave reviews from the music industry.

27.07.2005 The day is here. CAFTA, the proposed Central American Free Trade Agreement that many non-profits believe will harm--not help--farmers and workers in the U.S. and Central America, is expected to face a final Congressional showdown as early as today. The Senate narrowly passed CAFTA; now Lutheran World Relief urges you to ask your representative to vote "no."

26.07.2005 Hundreds of community members from across the United States have joined the public awareness campaign on modern-day slavery and human trafficking by taking photos showing their commitment to fighting the practice. Learn more about the issue, listen to the voices of survivors, and add your photo today.

26.07.2005 U.S. state and local governments, businesses, NGOs, and individual citizens are taking the initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and move towards alternative "clean energy" options. OneWorld concludes this month's three-part "IN-DEPTH" series on climate change from its new treeless magazine, Perspectives, which offers more background and context on the issue, viewpoints from non-profit organizations, and ways for individuals to get involved.

26.07.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 26 (OneWorld) - Two major unions broke away from the AFL-CIO Monday, stripping the premier U.S. labor federation of nearly one-fourth of its membership in what appeared to be the largest shakeup of the nation's organized workforce since the Great Depression.

26.07.2005 August 6 and 9, 2005 mark the 60th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. Tens of thousands of people at four U.S. nuclear weapons sites will call for an end to the development and production of nuclear bombs. Find out how you can join them.

26.07.2005 Could Telesur be Latin America's al-Jazeera? The continent-wide TV station launched Sunday, offering viewers a different perspective from the U.S.- and Europe-based corporate stations that currently dominate the airwaves. But, apparently afraid to lose the hearts and minds of another region, U.S. lawmakers have already reacted, authorizing $9 million for Washington to create its own competing station.