Brazil, Latin America's economic powerhouse, has implemented a successful "Zero Hunger" strategy for reducing poverty and food insecurity. Its school meals program reaches about 45 million children per year. "Brazil has taken the fight against hunger ...
| Duazo said the Aquino government should learn from the failures of similar programs in Brazil and other Latin American countries. “The additional 86% budgetary allocation for the CCT exposes Aquino and his government's misplaced priorities. ... |  Mindanao Examiner |
The World Bank approved a $3bn loan for Peru last month to help President Humala's plans for anti-poverty initiatives. The bank's vice-president for Latin America, Pamela Cox, said she hoped Humala would achieve what Brazil's former leader, ...
The petition was submitted to Kitzhaber by Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, Oregon Capital Resource Center, the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon and Amnesty International USA. “Acting boldly means taking a step that even the ...
| WASHINGTON — The murder conviction and death sentence of Archie Dixon in the 1993 “buried-alive” slaying of his former roommate, Christopher Hammer, were reinstated Monday by the US Supreme Court. The court overturned last year's decision by the ... |  Toledo Blade |
| ... a woman who escapes from grinding poverty by becoming a drug kingpin. Sanclemente paints herself as an innocent victim of a faulty justice system predisposed to accept false testimony and convict her because of Colombian drug-dealer stereotypes. ... |  Newsweek |
| Among the findings were poverty statistics for African-Americans showing that 27.5 percent of Black households lived in poverty in 2010. Also, overall, poverty seemed to be more heavily concentrated in the South, where 18.5 million families live in ... |  BET |
A new study finds widespread substance abuse among Native American, mixed-race and white teenagers. The study of more than 27000 adolescents found 31.5 percent of Native American teens had substance-related disorders, followed by ...
Native American Awareness Week concludes with a Native American Veterans presentation: 9 am, in the Quad area between Minot State University's Old Main and the Administration building. The presentation will feature the Johnson/Goodiron Honor Guard with ...
CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Bond deals by Venezuela point to defense purchases made in Moscow to circumvent a US arms embargo and other difficulties faced by Caracas in its quest for military suppliers for its armed forces. ...
The IDB says CSOs and Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) working with low income communities and vulnerable groups can submit project proposals for poverty reduction and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean . ...
| Extrapolating from this data, Emily Monea and Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution estimate that further sharp increases in both poverty and child poverty rates lie in our American future. Some experts dispute these numbers on the grounds that ... |  Salon |
In recent years, Mexico has been thrust into the center of a growing human trafficking problem that has seen increased trafficking of persons throughout North and Central America for sexual exploitation and forced labor. Among the most vulnerable are ...
| A student is arrested by riot police during a rally in downtown Santiago, Chile, on November 7, 2011. Scores of people have been arrested after Chilean police clashed with students demanding educational reforms in the South American country . ... |  Press TV |
| The poorest country in Central America, Nicaragua has been relatively stable since then and it has progressed economically under Ortega, who rode out 16 years in opposition to recapture the presidency five years ago, resolving to combat poverty. ... |  Reuters |
| For decades the dominant image of poverty in America has been one of gritty urban landscapes -- of Detroits and Clevelands and Philadelphias. That image may be growing more complicated. If poverty continues to grow in these non-urban locations the ... |  PBS NewsHour |
| The poorest country in Central America, Nicaragua has been relatively stable since then and it has progressed economically under Ortega, who rode out 16 years in opposition to recapture the presidency five years ago, resolving to combat poverty. ... | Reuters |
| US: 21.6 percent of children [are] affected by poverty. [Of] particular concern is the phenomenon of child poverty: on average about 12.3 percent of children live below the poverty line . . . The differences within the OECD are alarming: While in ... |  OB Rag |
| SANTIAGO — Chile's Constitutional Court (TC), rejected the legal acceptance of three gay marriages in Chile that were conducted in Argentina, where gay marriage was legalized in July 2010. The members of the TC stated that they referred to article 102 ... |  I Love Chile News |
| History aficionados will find “Conquistadora” a fascinating text with detailed views of a Puerto Rican sugar cane plantation in the mid-19th century. By Rafael Ocasio Esmeralda Santiago was born in the working-class neighborhood of Villa Palmeras, ... |  Left Eye On Books |
| A dozen states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virgina have obesity rates of 30 percent or more. Nationally, roughly one-third of all US adults are ... |  International Business Times |
| The South American nation has been recognized for its Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) strategy for reducing poverty and food insecurity and its school meals programme, which reaches about 45 million children per year. The new Centre will be headed by Daniel ... |  UN News Centre |
| Mexican traffickers have expanded their operations into the Central American nation, which is an important transit point for drugs smuggled from South America to the United States. In a poll published this week in the Guatemalan newspaper Prensa Libre, ... |  BBC News |
| Mexican traffickers have expanded their operations into the Central American nation, which is an important transit point for drugs smuggled from South America to the United States. In a poll published this week in the Guatemalan newspaper Prensa Libre, ... | BBC News |
| Venezuela's parliamentary channel, which is supposed to show fairly what happens in the chamber, practically ignores the opposition, critics charge. Journalists follow ANTV coverage of Venezuela's National Assembly from outside the chamber. ... |  MiamiHerald.com |
