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28.11.2006 Lula foi reeleito presidente do Brasil com 58,29 milhões de votos. Dos 125 milhões de eleitores, numa população de 185 milhões de pessoas, 60,83% decidiram reconduzir à Presidência da República, por mais quatro anos, o líder sindical fundador do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT).
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From: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información
Related topics/regions: [Brazil] [Politics] [Civil society] [Democracy]
28.11.2006 O Selo Unicef é um reconhecimento aos municípios que obtiveram resultados positivos nos seus esforços de melhoria da qualidade de vida de crianças e adolescentes. A iniciativa é desenvolvida em parceria com os governo federal, estaduais, municipais e entidades da sociedade civil integrantes do pacto Um mundo para a criança e o adolescente do semi-árido brasileiro.
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From: Agencia de Noticias dos Direitos da Infancia
Related topics/regions: [Brazil] [Human rights] [Children] [Youth]
25.11.2006 SAN JOSE DE SECCE, Peru, Nov 24 (IPS) - Isabel Limancca can express herself much better in Quechua. But she speaks Spanish well enough to wage a struggle against the Peruvian state from this remote town in Peru's southern Andean highlands.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Related topics/regions: [Peru] [Social exclusion] [Human rights] [Civil rights] [Indigenous rights] [Conflict]
22.11.2006 Sem-terra organizam protestos e ocupações para exigir governo agilidade na reforma agrária e mudanças na política econômica.
Não se sabe se o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, reeleito no dia 29 de outubro, irá cumprir as promessas de campanha no segundo mandato – como as de não reduzir direitos dos aposentados ou de priorizar os pobres.
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From: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información
Related topics/regions: [Brazil] [Land] [Social exclusion] [Governance]
Bandera de Venezuela
21.11.2006 The stage is already being set for the upcoming elections, as mainstream media in Venezuela constantly mention the possibility of fraud, and claims the elections are not transparent.
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Related topics/regions: [Venezuela] [Civil rights] [Information & media] [Democracy]
Image: Bandera de Venezuela © Fòrum Barcelona 2004
21.11.2006 Debt campaigners are pleased about Friday's decision to waive odious debts assigned to five Latin American countries, but are concerned that the relief could still be watered down and subject to unfair conditions.
From: Jubilee USA
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Related topics/regions: [Nicaragua] [Honduras] [Haiti] [Guyana] [Bolivia]
20.11.2006 Tuberculosis and chicken pox threaten the existence of Colombia's indigenous Nukak-Maku people, whose long term survival requires their return to home areas in the rainforest currently jeopardized by the country's drugs war.
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From: Survival International
Related topics/regions: [Colombia]
18.11.2006 MONTEVIDEO, Nov 18 (IPS) - Juan Maria Bordaberry, who staged the 1973 coup that ushered in a 12-year military dictatorship in Uruguay, is now in prison in connection with the 1976 assassination of two legislators who were living in exile in Argentina. His foreign minister, Juan Carlos Blanco, is also under arrest.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Related topics/regions: [Uruguay] [Human rights] [Civil rights] [Democracy] [Justice and crime]
13.11.2006 Esta semana a Polícia Federal firmou parceria com a Microsoft Brasil para lançar a versão local do CETS – Child Exploitation Tracking System (pronuncia-se “KÉTS”) ou Sistema de Rastreamento de Exploração Infantil.
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From: Agencia de Noticias dos Direitos da Infancia
Related topics/regions: [Brazil] [Children] [Human rights] [Justice and crime]
09.11.2006 Colombian voters gave Álvaro Uribe a second presidential term in May in the hope that he can bring an end to the years of terrible internal conflict. Meanwhile human rights and human development in Colombia continue to take a back seat. Read more in OneWorld's latest Country Guide.
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From: OneWorld UK
Related topics/regions: [Colombia]
09.11.2006 from Treehugger blog:
It can heat water up to a temperature of 90 degrees Celsius, which makes it possible to cook rice, pasta, soup, eggs and so on.
Image: The Argentinean Solar Cooker

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Related topics/regions: [Argentina] [Food] [Intermediate technology] [Renewable energy]
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07.11.2006 O Movimento Nacional de Vítimas de Crimes de Estado denuncia a existência de uma lista de extermínio, na qual são relacionadas 26 pessoas, entre as quais se encontram líderes do movimento e ativistas sociais do Departamento de Sucre.
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From: ADITAL, Agencia de Información Fray Tito para América Latina
Related topics/regions: [Colombia] [Civil rights] [Civil society] [Justice and crime]
Image: www.periodistadigital.org
07.11.2006 Esta semana os termos dos contratos já começaram a ser discutidos no Congresso Boliviano – que é quem vai aprová-lo - e para os analistas este vai ser o momento de melhor compreender “as letras pequenas”. A novidade é que estes contratos firmados na última segunda-feira não têm cláusulas de confidencialidade como havia nos anteriores.
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From: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información
Related topics/regions: [Bolivia] [Politics] [Governance]
04.11.2006 Luis Inácio "Lula" da Silva's resounding electoral victory with over 60 percent of the vote places Brazilian politics on a new footing.
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Related topics/regions: [Brazil] [Civil society] [Democracy] [Governance]
Image: © Radio Netherlands
04.11.2006 Nearly a quarter century since the end of Argentina’s 1976-83 military dictatorship, a key witness in the trial of one of the bloodiest genocides of that time has gone missing, opening wounds of the horrifying and anguishing years of terrorism and raising fears that human rights oppressors continue to operate in the country
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From: Noticias Aliadas / Latinamerica Press
Related topics/regions: [Argentina] [Human rights] [Justice and crime] [War and peace]

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