Full Coverage: South America

24.02.2006 Bolivia's new president is pushing for a new body politic that would ensure the representation of the country's two-thirds majority indigenous population. A minimum of one-third of the seats would be held by women too.

24.02.2006 They are running factories and non-profits, leading campaigns and demonstrations, and standing up to government oppression around the world. They are mothers, widows, journalists, Nobel Prize winners, peacemakers...they are just like you and me.

23.02.2006 En cette année électorale (les élections législatives et l’élection présidentielle auront respectivement lieu les 12 et 28 mai), Amnesty International appelle les parties au long conflit armé qui touche la Colombie à respecter le droit des candidats et des électeurs, des personnes déjà titulaires d’un mandat électif et des journalistes.

23.02.2006 Despite small strides, indigenous population expresses disappointment with Lula’s government.

22.02.2006 Entrevista com Dr. Belisario Santos Jr. A MP e o Decreto recém-promulgados pelo Presidente, diminuindo o prazo de blindagem dos arquivos, representam um avanço significativo na questão do acesso aos documentos de órgãos públicos?

22.02.2006 SANTIAGO, Feb 22 (IPS) - They dream of becoming doctors, lawyers or reporters, but they are more likely to face a future of working as chauffeurs or domestics. Raised in poverty, Aymara and Mapuche indigenous children from the northern and southern regions of Chile tend to drop out of school to go to work.

21.02.2006 This work sets out to explore the Brazilian information society and sustainable development programs, in an effort to locate intersection points and to identify how information society polices can collaborate in the reduction of regional inequalities in Brazil.

20.02.2006 During five days, the workshop will cover all aspects of film production: project development, marketing, distribution, digital and other new technologies in the audiovisual industry.

16.02.2006 Segundo a revista do Observatório Social, empresas como Basf, Faber-Castell e ICI Paints compram produtos de fornecedores que exploram a mão-de-obra infantil nas minas de talco em Ouro Preto (MG).

15.02.2006 Following last week's news about the Great Bear Rainforest another massive area of forest is to be protected from logging, this time in the Brazilian Amazon.

11.02.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 11 (OneWorld) - Terror victims are being denied sanctuary under U.S. counter-terrorism laws even as next year's federal budget threatens to push ever greater numbers to seek safe haven in the first place, refugee advocates said this week.

10.02.2006 Brazil has approved a national water resources plan which aims to secure water for millions of Brazilians, as well as safeguard some of the world’s richest aquatic life.

08.02.2006 Save the Children says it is moving quickly to assist families left homeless by recent floods in rugged, mountainous areas of Bolivia where the agency has worked for 20 years.

07.02.2006 For nearly two decades Stella Cros has been living on the streets, but now she is interviewing celebrities as the world’s first homeless talk show host. “Stellita’s Living Room” is the latest initiative by La Colifata, a community station, to de-stigmatize homelessness and raise awareness about social ills in a country where nearly 40% of the population lives below the poverty line.

03.02.2006 Jeff Zimbalist wanted to make a film “about communities that succeed, that overcome great diversity.” He’s done it, reports Daniel Nelson.

02.02.2006 BOGOTA, Feb 1 (IPS) - "The bullets and shell casings were falling like hail" in the Ecuadorian village of Barranca Bermeja near the Colombian border during a recent incursion by the Colombian air force, said terrified local residents.

02.02.2006 After four decades of armed conflict "not a single person in Colombia" is unaffected by violence, a top international Red Cross official said.

01.02.2006 Chile's first female president has appointed ten men and ten women to the cabinet, including some political novices, making it the first of its kind in the western hemisphere and one of only a handful in the world. While there was little public uproar over her selections, some analysts are concerned that Bachelet's "new style of government" may sacrifice competence for image.