Full Coverage: South America

28.04.2006 Mebegokre Kayapó Indians have vowed to oppose the building of five dams along the Xingu River in Amazonia, which they fear will have a devastating impact on the environment and flood large parts of their land.

28.04.2006 Despite South America's numerous geopolitical conflicts, the presidents of Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela have decided to move forward with a gas pipeline that they hope will eventually include the rest of the continent.

27.04.2006 Children and adolescents in Colombia account for nearly half of those internally displaced by ongoing armed conflict. UNICEF claims it is nearly $2 million short of funding, greatly afflicting its humanitarian response to the crisis.

25.04.2006 RECIFE, Brazil, Apr 25 (IPS) - Chile and France will begin in July to charge a special tax in airports which will go towards the purchase of medicines for poor countries afflicted by HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.

25.04.2006 Todas as entidades que participaram durante os dias do II Fórum Social Brasileiro reuniram-se, na manhã de domingo, 23, na Plenária dos Movimentos Sociais, para apresentar suas propostas.

25.04.2006 A democratização da renda e da riqueza no campo no Brasil é uma exigência histórica não apenas para fazer frente à crescente desigualdade social, política e econômica no campo e na cidade como para destituir o poder das velhas e novas oligarquias rurais representadas tanto pelo latifúndio como pelo agronegócio burguês, e que impedem a redistribuição da riqueza e da renda rurais.

20.04.2006 Brazil and Kenya will call for an international fund for research on "neglected diseases" at a World Health Organization meeting next month.

19.04.2006 As Brazil celebrates 'Indian Day' (19 April), Guarani Indians have warned that blood will flow if attempts are made to evict them from their land.

17.04.2006 Hina Jilani, the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary General on the situation of human rights defenders, submitted on March 14 the preliminary report of her visit to Brazil which took place in December, 2005

16.04.2006 A potato patent disrespects and disregards "thousands of years of careful selection and breeding by indigenous peoples and local communities around the world" and could unwillingly make indigenous farmers dependent on the Swiss Syngenta company for seeds and fertilizer, say 40 leaders from potato growing communities in the Andes.

12.04.2006 Jeff Zimbalist wanted to make a film “about communities that succeed, that overcome great diversity.” He’s done it.

12.04.2006 Some 550 leaders from 86 Brazilian tribes have slammed President Lula's government's record on indigenous peoples and have declared this month "Indigenous April" to highlight their concerns.

12.04.2006 The University of Michigan has reinstated its contract with Coca-Cola pending an investigation by an independent organization in India, but campaigners say the group is "neither fair, independent, or third party."

10.04.2006 Major international fast food chains, including McDonalds, are being called out for their destructive practices in the Amazon rainforest. Environmental activists are urging food suppliers to take an active role in tracking their products and how they are produced.

07.04.2006 In Bolivia IICD is actively supporting a large-scale ICT for development program TIC Bolivia or IICD in Bolivia since 2000. The program is operational with 15 projects at department and national levels in Bolivia in the sectors Agriculture, Governance and Education. Liang Tan and Dr. Stijn van der Krogt of the International Institute of Communication for Development, The Netherlands writes about their experiences in Bolivia.

05.04.2006 Local Argentines are outraged over what they believe to be a looming environmental disaster being built on the other side of their country's border with Uruguay.

04.04.2006 About 150 Indians belonging to one of the last nomadic tribes in the Amazon have been forced to flee their land after becoming caught up in Colombia's drugs war.

03.04.2006 O tema das árvores transgênicas entrou na pauta da COP8 nesta quinta-feira, 30 de março. Coréia e Venezuela apresentaram um texto que pedia a moratória do plantio ou de experimentos com árvores transgênicas, até que houvesse estudos aprofundados sobre a questão.

03.04.2006 A indústria farmacêutica Abbott lançou nova versão do lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra) em 2005, estável em temperatura ambiente, mas só comercializa o produto nos Estados Unidos.

03.04.2006 More than 345 million hectares of land globally could be forested or re-forested to help combat global warming. The Clean Development Mechanism, set up by the Kyoto Protocol, supports such initiatives. But do these programmes tackle the real causes of climate change?