Guatemalan President Moves to Slums to Taste Real Life

Guatemalan President Moves to Slums to Taste Real Life: Guatemala, one of the poorest countries in Latin America, had over 56 percent of citizens living below the poverty line in 2011, according to the Central Intelligence Agency's data. Molina, whose policy has been approved by 76 percent of citizens ...

BBC News - Brazil opens 'inclusive churches' for gay men and women

BBC News - Brazil opens 'inclusive churches' for gay men and women:

A growing number of churches are opening their doors to transsexuals, gay men and lesbians ...

Lawmakers visit alleged CIA prison in Lithuania - CBS News

Lawmakers visit alleged CIA prison in Lithuania - CBS News: VILNIUS, Lithuania — Five European Parliament members have visited an alleged CIA prison in Lithuania as part of an inquiry into possible torture of suspected ...

Antara News : More than 1000 inmates moved after prison riot and ...

Antara News : More than 1000 inmates moved after prison riot and ...: Authorities were forced to move more than 1000 inmates from the Comcar prison near Uruguayan capital Montevideo after a riot broke out there and left eight ...

20th anniversary of LA's deadly riots

20th anniversary of LA's deadly riots: The riots left over $1 billion in damage. Nearly a year later, the four LA Police officers were tried in federal court. Two were convicted and sentenced to two years in prison for violating Rodney King's Civil Rights.

Falklands oil revenue must help develop Argentina not boost UK coffers

Falklands oil revenue must help develop Argentina not boost UK coffers

There are two reasons why it is important from a development perspective for Argentina to benefit from this money. First, poverty reduction. Although Argentina is by no means one of the world's poorest countries, and has fairly good human development ...

Argentine patriotism spooks investors

Argentine patriotism spooks investors:

The poverty rate, above 50% after the peso collapsed, is now below its pre-crisis level. Average real wages have doubled and agricultural productivity has tripled. However, many analysts believe the Argentine economy is overheating.

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Festival de la Familia highlights Latinos' growing presence

Festival de la Familia highlights Latinos' growing presence: Mexican and Central American immigrants share a common bond because they all left their homes and families behind in hopes of gaining access to justice, health care and education, he said. Central Americans fled wars, corruption and poverty that ...

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Nicaragua: Gay community crowns Miss Gay Nicaragua | Latin ...

Nicaragua: Gay community crowns Miss Gay Nicaragua | Latin ...: The gay community crowned her Miss Nicaragua Gay, Queen of transvestites, with an exotic spectacle of dances and parades in swimsuits and fantasy in t.

Gay Market News.: Shadow Over IGLTA

Gay Market News.: Shadow Over IGLTA: Gay Market News spoke to a number of LGBT business owners in the Latin America region who provided their own firsthand accounts of what they claim are ...

US to screen Gitmo Sept. 11 hearing at fewer sites

US to screen Gitmo Sept. 11 hearing at fewer sites: AP SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The arraignment of the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and four other Guantanamo Bay prisoners will be broadcast to only six sites at four military bases in the US Northeast, a Pentagon spokesman ...

Racist Photo Used in Puerto Rico Election Campaign

Racist Photo Used in Puerto Rico Election Campaign: ... provoked the condemnation of human rights defenders and social network users primarily because it spread from the Twitter profile of the former president of the Puerto Rico House of Represetnatives and former Justice, Zaida "Cucusa" Hernandez.

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Number of painkiller-addicted newborns soars

Number of painkiller-addicted newborns soars:

Some states have been hit harder than others, Hayes says, particularly those with high rates of rural poverty, such as Maine and Kentucky. In Florida, the number of babies with withdrawal syndrome soared from 354 in 2006 to 1374 in 2010, according to ...

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Poverty On the Plains

Poverty On the Plains: By Center for Rural Affairs April 27, the Center for Rural Affairs released a report that challenges many conventional assumptions about where poverty and food insecurity exists in the central United States. The report concludes that rural counties in ...

Analysis: Latin American trade barriers seen backfiring

Analysis: Latin American trade barriers seen backfiring: By Krista Hughes PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (Reuters) - Import restrictions imposed by Argentina and Brazil may end up harming the very domestic industries they are trying to protect and also could affect other economies in Latin America.

Brown and Warren campaigns trade jabs over whether she claimed Native American ...

Brown and Warren campaigns trade jabs over whether she claimed Native American ...

By Glen Johnson and Noah Bierman, Globe Staff Elizabeth Warren's campaign accused Scott Brown of “nasty insinuations” today, as Brown's campaign continued to question whether Warren has touted herself as a Native American in her career as a Harvard law ...

World Bank speaker encourages business students to work against poverty

World Bank speaker encourages business students to work against poverty

This vast economic network works together to fund projects that provide relief to those hit hardest by worldwide poverty. For example, a World Bank program that originated in Brazil has now spread throughout Latin America wherein a simple 60 dollar ...

Brazil oil platform evacuated as precaution

Brazil oil platform evacuated as precaution: Federal prosecutors are demanding that a man they call a "congenital liar and serial fraudster" serve 30 years in prison and pay a $60 million fine after a jury convicted him of defrauding actors Danny Glover, Harry... Democrats are hailing first lady ...

Rally for Jailed Trucker who Made a Wrong Turn into Mexico's 'Murder Capital'

Rally for Jailed Trucker who Made a Wrong Turn into Mexico's 'Murder Capital'

A prayer rally for Jabin Bogan at Victory Plaza in Dallas, Texas.myfoxdfw.com Dallas – Family and friends of a Dallas truck driver locked up in a Mexican prison held a rally in Dallas imploring American officials to help. The rally was held at Victory ...

Why We Need To End The War On Drugs

Why We Need To End The War On Drugs:

Drug prohibition in the United States has cost an estimated $1 trillion for more than 45 million arrests over the last forty years. An estimated 50000 people have died in Mexico since 2006 due to War on Drugs. Since President Felipe Calderón took ...

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Feminist Task Force hosting climate change tribunal in WV

Feminist Task Force hosting climate change tribunal in WV: The Feminist Task Force, an organization that aims to eliminate poverty among women by focusing on gender equality, are setting their sites on climate change. According to the FTF website, the organization The Feminist Task Force, an organization that ...

Analysis: Latin American trade barriers seen backfiring

Analysis: Latin American trade barriers seen backfiring: By Krista Hughes PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (Reuters) - Import restrictions imposed by Argentina and Brazil may end up harming the very domestic industries they are trying to protect and also could affect other economies in Latin America.

The Struggle for Immigrants' Rights

The Struggle for Immigrants' Rights: Obama also enacted a free trade treaty with Colombia (Boston Globe, 4/2012), continuing the disastrous policies of trade liberalization which have overwhelmingly benefited US big businesses and increased poverty throughout Latin America: for example, ...

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Argentina's Critics Get It Wrong Again

Argentina's Critics Get It Wrong Again: Employment is at record levels, and both poverty and extreme poverty have been ... Bolivia re-nationalized its hydrocarbons industry in 2006, and increased ...

Chavez Seeks Leave to Fly to Cuba for More Cancer Treatment

Chavez Seeks Leave to Fly to Cuba for More Cancer Treatment: April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is planning a sixth trip to Cuba this year to continue his treatment for cancer ahead of elections in October, fueling speculation his health is deteriorating. The National Assembly will hold an ...

Transocean evacuates Brazil rig, no oil spilled

Transocean evacuates Brazil rig, no oil spilled: Transocean and Chevron Corp face a combined $22 billion in lawsuits, and several executives face prison, because of two incidents in which oil leaked off Brazil's coast in November and March. A Brazilian prosecutor filed a request on April 19 seeking ...

Mexico Drug War Journalist Found Dead

Mexico Drug War Journalist Found Dead: (Flickr) Veracruz, Mexico – A correspondent known for covering drug trafficking for Mexican news magazine Proceso was found dead inside her home in Veracruz state on Saturday. Authorities believe she was murdered. Regina Martínez's body was found by ...

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New association by Dominican doctors graduated in Cuba ...

New association by Dominican doctors graduated in Cuba ...: In his opening remarks Arias said they have to organize, for having the most noble and humane profession and having been formed in Cuba, with great scientific ...

Trucker with ammo mistakenly turns into Mexico

Trucker with ammo mistakenly turns into Mexico: PHOENIX A truck driver on his way to Phoenix made a wrong turn in El Paso and ended up in a Mexican prison because the truck he was driving was packed with ...

Report: Bahraini police beat, torture detainees

Report: Bahraini police beat, torture detainees: Treatment of prisoners inside police stations and formal detention facilities has improved, Human Rights Watch said, and Bahrain appears to have made "rapid progress" in eliminating torture inside police stations after a committee last year recommended ...

Thousands join industrial shrimp aquaculture protest: WWF standards denounced ...

Thousands join industrial shrimp aquaculture protest: WWF standards denounced ...

By Alfredo Quarto, Brussels - Hundreds of NGOs in Asia, Latin America, Africa, North America and Europe are protesting against WWF and its lack of concern for the environment and local peoples' livelihood in the interest of industry profits from shrimp ...

Improving children's literacy

Improving children's literacy: A 2009 Annie E. Kasey Foundation report says that 40 percent of the children in Shelby County are living in poverty. Add recent TCAP scores to the poverty numbers and it's easy to see there is much to be done to help children of this area.

Effective Governance Key to Caribbean ICT Development

Effective Governance Key to Caribbean ICT Development: Even with its slightly improved ranking, Trinidad and Tobago lagged behind other Latin American and Caribbean countries such as Barbados (35th) and Puerto Rico (36th), although it outperformed several larger territories in the region, including Brazil ...

Elizabeth Warren, Native American

Elizabeth Warren, Native American:

It has come to my attention that Elizabeth Warren, who is running for a Senate seat in Massachusetts, claims Native American ancestry. This did not surprise me. Warren is from Oklahoma, where nearly 10% of the population claims some Native American ...

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Guatemalan President Moves to Slums to Taste Real Life

Guatemalan President Moves to Slums to Taste Real Life: Guatemala, one of the poorest countries in Latin America, had over 56 percent of citizens living below the poverty line in 2011, according to the Central Intelligence Agency's data. Molina, whose policy has been approved by 76 percent of citizens ...

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In abolishing the death penalty, Connecticut joins the civilized world

In abolishing the death penalty, Connecticut joins the civilized world: On April 25, with a stroke of the governor's pen, Connecticut became the 17th US state to abolish the death penalty - and the fifth state to do so in five years. This reflects a growing momentum to end capital punishment in the US, which is the only ...

Activists Breathe New Life Into May Day

Activists Breathe New Life Into May Day: ... doesn't require employers to provide workers with paid vacations, hasn't abolished the death penalty, and doesn't celebrate May Day as an official national holiday. Outside the US, May 1 is international workers' day, observed with speeches, ...

Church Activists Disperse Pussy Riot Supporters with Holy Water

Church Activists Disperse Pussy Riot Supporters with Holy Water: Several dozens of opposition activists gathered near the main Russia's Orthodox Cathedral in Moscow for an unsanctioned rally in support of the members of the all-female punk group Pussy Riot who had been put in custody for performing a song against ...

Guyanese medical student in Cuba allegedly murders man, wounds ...

Guyanese medical student in Cuba allegedly murders man, wounds ...

A Guyanese medical student was up to press time last evening in a Havana, Cuba jail after he reportedly stabbed a man to death and seriously injured a woman.

Children's rights pressure mounts

Children's rights pressure mounts:

Mr Schokman said indigenous children's welfare would come under scrutiny at the Geneva meeting. On key indicators - from mortality to high school retention and involvement in the child protection and juvenile justice systems - Aboriginal children do ...

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Poverty, hopelessness & fear contribute to violence

Poverty, hopelessness & fear contribute to violence: For many children, growing up poor amid violence without a consistent adult in their lives or without a long-term home can translate into hopelessness and the need for immediate gratification, say professionals who work with young people.

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Family of Texas trucker jailed in Mexico calls for his release

Family of Texas trucker jailed in Mexico calls for his release: Aletha Smith Jabin Bogan, 27, an Irving truck driver, has been confined to the Villa Aldama federal prison in Mexico for two weeks after being charged with smuggling when he was stopped driving an 18-wheeler loaded with 268000 rounds of military ...

French journalist missing after Colombia combat

French journalist missing after Colombia combat: A top White House aide on Sunday said President Barack Obama wants to strike an "appropriate balance" between advancing human rights and maintaining US relations with China, the first public comments by the administration... One World Trade Center is ...

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Indigenous activists accuse governments of harassment

Indigenous activists accuse governments of harassment:

Indigenous activists in Bolivia and other Latin American countries who take to the streets to protest the exploitation of their ancestral homelands face repressive measures and charges of terrorism. Bolivian President Evo Morales' plans to build a ...

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Poverty, hopelessness & fear contribute to violence

Poverty, hopelessness & fear contribute to violence: Nearly 10 percent of children in Louisiana — 117859 children — live in grandparent-headed households, with nearly 65000 of them being reared primarily by their grandparents instead of their parents, according to a 2009-2010 report by Hirtzel ...

Inside the eagle repository where Native American tribes come for their bird ...

Inside the eagle repository where Native American tribes come for their bird ...

By Reuters Reporter Each year the National Eagle Repository bags more than 2000 dead birds and freezes the animals before delivering them to waiting Native American Indian tribes to use in religious rituals. Eagles are sacrosanct for many tribes, ...

Rodney King: 20th Anniversary of Los Angeles Riots Observed

Rodney King: 20th Anniversary of Los Angeles Riots Observed:

The acquittal triggered riots throughout LA killing many innocent civilians. A year later, all four were tried again. While Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell were charged for violating civil rights and sentenced to 30 months in prison, the other two ...

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“We fear for Sori Soni's life and are outraged at inhuman treatment of a woman ...

“We fear for Sori Soni's life and are outraged at inhuman treatment of a woman ...

In a series of letters written to the Supreme Court Advocate from jail, Sori recounted how she was stripped, electrocuted, and physically and sexually tortured by the police. More than six months after she was tortured, Sori continues to be imprisoned ...

Vargas needs help and he must show progress

Vargas needs help and he must show progress: As a native of the Dominican Republic, one of the Western Hemisphere's poorest nations, for more than 20 years Bolgen Vargas has regularly worn UNICEF's “We are the world” neckties with great humility. For Vargas, the colorful ties, designed by poor ...

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Execution set for murderer who could have had life in prison

Execution set for murderer who could have had life in prison: And later that day, they might have slipped across the Mexican border to disappear forever, if only they had smiled and looked the deputy in the eye. Instead, they seemed nervous. And as he drove away, Peterson radioed to check the tag number.

POVERTY, GAPS IN RURAL COLOMBIA | DAPA

POVERTY, GAPS IN RURAL COLOMBIA | DAPA: We identify policies that may reduce socioeconomic gaps between the urban centers and the rural countryside of Colombia.

A Cry for Freedom - The Struggle Against Racism and Capitalism

A Cry for Freedom - The Struggle Against Racism and Capitalism: The level of poverty has sent black and brown communities into a deeper state of despair in the richest nation in the world. According to State of the Dream, “In 2010, poverty rates among Blacks (25.7%) and Latinos (25.4%) were more than two and a half ...

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Despite Rape and Abject Poverty, Haiti's Women Hold the Power for Change

Despite Rape and Abject Poverty, Haiti's Women Hold the Power for Change: Ingrid Arnesen is an award winning television news and print journalist with 25 years of experience covering Central and South America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia Minor for CBS News, ABC News and CNN. Ms. Arnesen has covered Haiti since ...

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Thousands of central Ohioans find next meal elusive

Thousands of central Ohioans find next meal elusive: By Rita Price New research by the hunger-relief organization Feeding America says Ohio and central Ohio continue to rate worse than the national average when it comes to “food insecurity.” The report said about 18.1 percent of the state population was ...

Detained Syrian human rights defenders report torture

Detained Syrian human rights defenders report torture: “Given the seriousness of these new allegations, we urge the authorities to give the detainees immediate access to adequate medical care if needed and ensure they are protected from torture or other ill-treatment. “As prisoners of conscience arrested ...

Indiana Couple Sentenced to Federal Prison for Staging Violent Phone Calls to ...

Indiana Couple Sentenced to Federal Prison for Staging Violent Phone Calls to ...

CHICAGO—An Indiana couple who engaged in a cruel hoax were sentenced to federal prison for an extortion conspiracy in which they obtained more than $54000 from a Chicago victim they knew by pretending that the husband was and would continue to torture ...

Food Sovereignty Activists: Stop World Bank's Support for Corporate Land Grabs

Food Sovereignty Activists: Stop World Bank's Support for Corporate Land Grabs: "The situation in the countryside in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador is similar. It's very grave poverty in the countryside but this does not only affect the countryside but also the urban areas." Alegria said the US used free trade ...

Venezuelan Government's Mission Mercal Celebrates 9th ...

Venezuelan Government's Mission Mercal Celebrates 9th ...: Venezuela's Food Minister Carlos Osorio highlighted last Sunday the role that the revolutionary government of President Hugo Chavez has played in ensuring food security to the nation by providing more than 10 million tons of important ...

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Fla. Gov. Rick Scott will sign bill banning governments from hiring companies ...

Fla. Gov. Rick Scott will sign bill banning governments from hiring companies ...: Rick Scott said on Friday that he intends to sign contentious legislation that would ban the state and local governments from hiring companies with business ties to Cuba and Syria. The governor will sign the bill on Tuesday in Miami, ...

Latino education gap putting Arizona at risk

Latino education gap putting Arizona at risk: Nearly 100 percent of Latino children under age 5 in Arizona are US citizens, contrary to political rhetoric related to immigration. With the trend for lower average incomes and fewer jobs for low-skilled labors, Arizona's unemployment and poverty ...

2012 — A 'hope and change' election for California?

2012 — A 'hope and change' election for California?: The first, which was formally certified for the November election on Monday of this week (read the SacBee story here), will offer voters the option to repeal the death penalty for special circumstance murder and replace it with life without parole ...

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Two nations divided by death: Ronald Smith makes his final bid to escape execution

Two nations divided by death: Ronald Smith makes his final bid to escape execution

Now 54, Smith is the only Canadian on death row in the US He has finally exhausted his legal appeals to avoid execution for his horrific crimes, but is seeking executive clemency — and a new sentence of life imprisonment — at a Montana parole board ...

Capital punishment support fades

Capital punishment support fades: By KEVIN JOHNSON The campaign to abolish the death penalty was invigorated this month in a series of actions that supporters say represents increasing evidence that America may be losing its taste for capital punishment. This is a topic that divides ...

Chile pledges reforms as students march

Chile pledges reforms as students march

Santiago 25 de abril 2012 (UPI) Encapuchados se enfrentan con fuerzas especiales de carabineros en las inmediaciones del parque Almagro al termino de la primera marcha estudiantil del año 2012. (UPI/ Fotografia) SANTIAGO, Chile, April 27 (UPI) ...

Report finds poverty in rural areas higher than urban centers

Report finds poverty in rural areas higher than urban centers: By Anonymous The Center for Rural Affairs released a report that challenges many conventional assumptions about where poverty and food insecurity exists in the central United States. The report concludes that rural counties in the Midwest and Great ...

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Colombia's government confirms Bogota's role in housing plan

Colombia's government confirms Bogota's role in housing plan

... Santos appointed German Vargas Lleras as the new Minister of Housing earlier this week while launching a housing plan to help the country's poorest families, an initiative intended to advance the government's goals of reducing poverty in Colombia.

SD Native American appointed to housing board

SD Native American appointed to housing board: She will be the lone Native American on the board to represent Great Plains states, said Sheila Crowley, president and chief executive officer of the coalition. During the three-year appointment, board members pay their own way to attend two meetings a ...

Black gold brings hope to French Guiana

Black gold brings hope to French Guiana

French Guiana, an overseas department bordering Brazil, is one of France's poorest regions, where unemployment is at a record level. But with oil being discovered, locals are starting to hope for a better life. Will they benefit from the black gold?

Transitions: Inequality won't take care of itself

Transitions: Inequality won't take care of itself: While many middle-income countries, in Latin America and elsewhere, are well positioned to meet those benchmarks by the 2015 deadline, inequality has continued to spawn multiple social ills (including poverty, crime, and poor access to basic services, ...

Colombian officials blame rebels for eight deaths

Colombian officials blame rebels for eight deaths: The military said in a statement that rebels used homemade mortars to attack a police station in the southern town of Puerto Rico, and that three civilians died in that attack. It said children, ages 7 and 9, were wounded in a neighboring home.

Chavez ally raises specter of opposition violence

Chavez ally raises specter of opposition violence: LOS TEQUES, Venezuela (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez's big poll lead puts him in a strong position ahead of Venezuela's presidential election, but it could also convince radical opponents that violence is the only way to beat him, a senior campaign ...

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Surviving Israeli jail: Torture, humiliation and giving birth

Surviving Israeli jail: Torture, humiliation and giving birth:

Speaking about his years spent in an Israeli jail, as-Sinwar says different kinds of torture were routine practice. “They kept me awake for 10 days in a row. Whenever I dozed off, they would pour ice-cold or boiling water on me – depending on their ...

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Ecuador should scrap new media bill, draft new one

Ecuador should scrap new media bill, draft new one: The regulation also runs counter to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights' Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression, which states: "Prior conditioning of expressions, such as truthfulness, timeliness or impartiality is incompatible ...

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Judge reduces prison term for helpful burglar

Judge reduces prison term for helpful burglar: Her Honour Judge Carol Hagen had previously handed Jason Reed a suspended jail term with drug treatment. When he followed the constructive course by committing 22 more break-ins, the judge jailed him for six years. Yesterday Judge Hagen had Reed ...

UN to showcase India's success in reducing child mortality rate

UN to showcase India's success in reducing child mortality rate: In his third visit to India, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Thursday said that he would like to replicate India's success in reducing mother and child ...

Gadget addiction threatens to create 'energy poverty'

Gadget addiction threatens to create 'energy poverty': Sydney University economist Lynne Chester estimates that regulated electricity prices rose by nearly 40 per cent in Victoria and 52 per cent in New South Wales in the four years to June 2011. The Australian Energy Market Commission projects residential ...

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Santos announces free housing for Colombia's poorest

Santos announces free housing for Colombia's poorest: Santos' proposal is based on policies that have been successful in Brazil, Chile and Mexico, and is one facet of the government's larger effort to create jobs and reduce poverty in the country. "We are going to award housing to the poorest of the poor, ...

Santos announces free housing for Colombia's poorest

Santos announces free housing for Colombia's poorest: Santos' proposal is based on policies that have been successful in Brazil, Chile and Mexico, and is one facet of the government's larger effort to create jobs and reduce poverty in the country. "We are going to award housing to the poorest of the poor, ...

Brazil congress set to vote on divisive forest law

Brazil congress set to vote on divisive forest law: Nearly double the amount of Sussex County children are living below the federal poverty level in 2009 than in five years prior. Nearly double the amount of Sussex County children are living below the federal poverty level in 2009 than in five years ...

Family groups aim to save child tax credit

Family groups aim to save child tax credit: With Republicans on Capitol Hill keen to slice the budget, the organizations are stressing that the credit is a lifeline for keeping children out of poverty. “These two credits are the closest things kids have to Social Security,” Bruce Lesley, ...

Forum Focusing On Oral Health For Natives

Forum Focusing On Oral Health For Natives: by AP The top dental officer for the US Public Health Service is the keynote speaker at the state's first Native American Oral Health Summit Thursday in Rapid City. Rear Admiral William Bailey, a dentist who serves as an assistant surgeon general of ...

Why Do Venezuelan Women Vote for Chavez?

Why Do Venezuelan Women Vote for Chavez?: [iii] Women tend to be the majority among the poor all over the world due to their economic and social disadvantages and Venezuela has not been an exception. The Chavez government has significantly reduced general poverty from 49% in 1998 to 27% in ...

Millions of children in Haiti to receive life-saving vaccines

Millions of children in Haiti to receive life-saving vaccines:

Haiti has been declared polio free since 2001, she said, but to get accredited the country needs to hit the 90 percent mark; not an easy task in a poverty-stricken nation where culturally parents don't always see the benefits of taking children to a ...

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Border Violence No Big Threat to U.S., Report Says

Border Violence No Big Threat to U.S., Report Says:

The Washington Office on Latin America, which promotes itself as a group focusing on human rights, democracy and social justice (sounds liberal, don't it?), says Mexico's violence is not spilling over the border, and the security policies designed to ...

OC Weekly (blog)

The MasterCard Foundation and EARTH University Partner to Create $19.5 Million ...

The MasterCard Foundation and EARTH University Partner to Create $19.5 Million ...

... 2012) - The MasterCard Foundation and EARTH University announced today a seven-year, USD 19.5 million partnership to provide educational opportunities to young people from disadvantaged communities in Africa, Latin America and The Caribbean.

How unemployed urban youth can fight poverty

How unemployed urban youth can fight poverty: In fact, urban poverty will not decrease unless the urban poor are integrated into the economy. In Latin America, for example, it is estimated that the number of urban poor now broadly exceeds the number of rural poor. The causes of poverty in urban ...

Mortality rates still too high for world's teens

Mortality rates still too high for world's teens: As many of those teens face poverty, natural disasters and wars in addition to overwhelming physical and emotional changes, researchers worry about the lack of available health resources. "The high income world has been grappling with a rising tide of ...

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Forgotten flashpoint, 20 years later

Forgotten flashpoint, 20 years later: After a jury found Soon Ja Du guilty of voluntary manslaughter and recommended a 16-year prison sentence, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Joyce Karlin on Nov. 15, 1991, sentenced Du to probation. The sentence was upheld on appeal the following ...

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Judge denies bond for Puerto Rican nationalist charged in 1983 Conn. robbery

Judge denies bond for Puerto Rican nationalist charged in 1983 Conn. robbery: A federal judge denied a bond request Thursday from a Puerto Rican nationalist charged in one of the largest cash robberies in US history, saying the man lived as a fugitive for more than 25 years and cannot be trusted to appear for trial.

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Immunization Week Highlights Efforts to Save Lives Worldwide

Immunization Week Highlights Efforts to Save Lives Worldwide

Experts say the current immunization campaign provides a unique opportunity to highlight the powerful impact vaccines can have in reducing mortality and illness. “The leading killers of children in the world now are diarrheal disease caused by ...

Nursery school teacher accused of tying up one of her pupils

Nursery school teacher accused of tying up one of her pupils: A nursery school teacher was removed from her position today, after being accused of tying a 4-year-old girl to a chair in a children's nursery in the city of Buenos Aires. The incident took place at the Kindergarten N°1 “Alfredo Palacios” in the BA ...

Cautious optimism over future of kids in Afghanistan

Cautious optimism over future of kids in Afghanistan: With the world's second highest rate of child mortality, as well as the highest rate of maternal death, Afghanistan has a difficult road ahead. But the Canadian humanitarian agency head says there are signs of progress beyond that one baby's cry.

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Venezuela money laundering: 5 arrested in case said to involve opposition ...

Venezuela money laundering: 5 arrested in case said to involve opposition ...

Five people have been arrested in a drug money laundering case in Venezuela, and there is suspicion opposition politicians are involved in the scheme. The money-laundering network, which is said to include the ...

The Truth About Cash Balance Pension Plans

The Truth About Cash Balance Pension Plans: These critics claim that switching from the current defined benefit plan to a cash balance plan would increase costs to the state, drive up taxes, and even force people into poverty. In fact, this reform would put Louisiana's retirement systems on a ...

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LA riots: 20 years later, a facelift for the police but scars for South Central

LA riots: 20 years later, a facelift for the police but scars for South Central:

The mainly black community of South Central LA responded with fury to the acquittals. "It was boiling point, the perfect storm," said Banks, an African American. "The crowd merged onto the streets and started stopping and harming anyone who didn't look ...

The Guardian

UNICEF urges access to early learning for the most disadvantaged children

UNICEF urges access to early learning for the most disadvantaged children: Latest data indicates that more than 200 million children from low- and middle-income countries under the age of five are failing to attain their developmental potential because of poverty, poor heath and limited opportunities to learn.

Child poverty growing in hip hoods: New Study highlights Bed Stuy and East Harlem

Child poverty growing in hip hoods: New Study highlights Bed Stuy and East Harlem

By Simone Weichselbaum / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Hip city neighborhoods attracting young affluent new residents are also home to a more troubling trend - increasing child poverty. East Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant scored high on the Citizens' Committee ...

Leveraging Technology to Feed India's Hungry Children

Leveraging Technology to Feed India's Hungry Children: This was a defining moment for Pandit as he realized just what one complete meal a day means to children and their families. He saw this as an important strategic intervention in education that unlocks the vicious and perpetual cycle of poverty.

How Student Debt Impacts Students of Color

How Student Debt Impacts Students of Color:

Youth unemployment (ages 16 to 24) is higher for people of color, making student debt a significant financial burden. Youth unemployment is highest among youth of color, with rates for African American youth at 30 percent and Latino youth at 20 percent ...

Center For American Progress

Judge: Ky. must consider single-drug executions

Judge: Ky. must consider single-drug executions:

Shepherd's order comes on the heels of an American Bar Association panel recommending that Kentucky suspend the death penalty until it adopts new safeguards to prevent execution of the innocent. For more information about reprints & permissions, ...

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The Violence of Poverty

The Violence of Poverty: It is in violation of the traditions of America.” This same attitude remained predominant nearly thirty years later. Addressing Congress on March 16, 1964, President Johnson proclaimed that “The war on poverty is not a struggle simply to support people ...

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Many Latinos Feel They Were Discriminated Against

Many Latinos Feel They Were Discriminated Against: A statewide survey says Latinos felt discriminated against at work, from police and when applying for loans, and not just in East Haven. By Fred Musante Earlier this year, Latinos demonstrated against discrimination in East Haven.

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Arizona set to execute third inmate this year

Arizona set to execute third inmate this year:

The execution has put Arizona on pace to match its busiest year for executions and make it one of the busiest death-penalty states in the nation. As he lay strapped to a table in the death chamber, Kemp was asked if he had any final words.

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death penalty racism | Breaking News for Black America

death penalty racism | Breaking News for Black America: The practice of capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is one of the most-heavily contended social issues in America and abroad. There have been many cases involving African Americans that question the racial fairness of the ...

Americans losing their taste for the death penalty, even in Texas

Americans losing their taste for the death penalty, even in Texas: WASHINGTON – The campaign to abolish the death penalty has been freshly invigorated this month in a series of actions that supporters say represents increasing evidence that America may be losing its taste for capital punishment. As early as this week, ...

José Daniel Ferrer, Former Cuban Black Spring Prisoner, on Hunger Strike After ...

José Daniel Ferrer, Former Cuban Black Spring Prisoner, on Hunger Strike After ...: José Daniel, the leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), is today State Security's main headache in the east of the country. He occupies that place -- admirable but dangerous -- in part because his every word projects honesty and determination.

The Daily reports on Colombia's booming mail-order bride business

The Daily reports on Colombia's booming mail-order bride business

The average person in Colombia lives on less than $20 a day. Half the population live in poverty, while 16.6% suffer extreme poverty (living on less than $1.25 a day). The Daily followed one of these tours, put on by international matchmakers Anastasia ...

Eagle center struggles to supply American Indians rituals

Eagle center struggles to supply American Indians rituals: Wiist will bag the eagle, freeze it and then have it delivered to a waiting Native American Indian tribe. Eagles are sacrosanct for many tribes, and Wiist and his colleagues at the National Eagle Repository provide them with feathers, wings and talons ...

El Paso officials seek answers on canceled fight

El Paso officials seek answers on canceled fight

... violence from Mexico. Despite ranking among the safest cities in the nation in terms of violent crime, El Paso officials have long complained their town gets falsely portrayed as a war zone because of drug violence rampaging just across the border.

In the Fields of America's Green Prison

In the Fields of America's Green Prison: by DEAN GALARO In Honduras there is almost no middle class. Either you are wealthy and politically connected, or you make ends meet with agricultural work, probably on a banana plantation or coffee finca. You work, your children work, and the lack of ...

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Conn. governor signs bill to repeal death penalty

Conn. governor signs bill to repeal death penalty: Marco Rubio has outlined his vision of a more muscular American foreign policy as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney begins the search for a running mate.More >> Conflicting portraits of the Secret Service and new questions about the ...

Mexican who ran Texas stash houses gets prison

Mexican who ran Texas stash houses gets prison: McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A man from Mexico has been sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for running two South Texas stash houses for illegal immigrants. Prosecutors in McAllen on Wednesday announced the penalty for 33-year-old Jose Santos Gomez ...

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Equality: the Missing Link between Growth and Poverty ... - World Bank

Equality: the Missing Link between Growth and Poverty ... - World Bank

The percentage of people living at or below the poverty line, however, ... By the mid 1990s Brazil's poorest 50 percent of the population accounted for the same ...

Japan, Venezuela Agree To Extend Energy Cooperation

Japan, Venezuela Agree To Extend Energy Cooperation

(RTTNews) - Japan and Venezuela have agreed to extend by three years their energy cooperation thereby increasing Japanese import of Venezuelan oil to meet a growing need for petroleum energy in Japan due to the suspension of its nuclear power plants.