Full Coverage: Central America

22.03.2006 More than 100 child activists gathered in Mexico City Tuesday on the eve of World Water Day to draw attention to the water crisis and its effects on children in underdeveloped countries worldwide. Access to safe and clean water affects every aspect of their lives, the children say.

09.03.2006 MEXICO CITY, Mar 9 (IPS) - Seven out of 10 Mexican television viewers watch channels belonging to the Televisa consortium, while two out of 10 watch TV Azteca channels. Radio broadcasting stations are concentrated in the hands of 13 business groups.

08.03.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 8 (OneWorld) - Mexican officials routinely subject rape victims to a ''second assault'' by intimidating them and violating their legal right to a safe abortion, a watchdog said in a report evocative of new restrictions in South Dakota.

07.03.2006 Community radio is so important to Guatemala's rural and indigenous populations that it was specifically protected under the 1996 Peace Accords, but government raids over the past week are threatening the survival of all six of the country's community radio associations.

06.03.2006 A controversial bill before the U.S. Congress would authorize a 700-mile border fence between Mexico and the U.S. and criminalize immigrants, their families, and organizations that advocate on their behalf, say faith, labor and rights leaders rallying in Washington, D.C. Tuesday.

06.03.2006 The World Development Movement (WDM) plans to hold a meet at the World Water Forum (WWF) in Mexico to explain that water privatisation projects are failing all over the world but still continue to be promoted. WDM is a British organisation that had launched its "Dirty Aid, Dirty Water" campaign in 2005, to challenge the belief that the solution to the global water crisis is water privatisation.

01.03.2006 Since it's founding in 1982 Operation Smile has been providing free reconstructive surgery to children with facial deformities in 24 countries around the world, helping end the isolation, embarrassment, and health problems associated with cleft lips and cleft palates.