Commission Calls for Guatemala to Protect Patients: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights this week acted on the findings of the groups, including Disability Rights International, which has investigated psychiatric hospitals across Latin America and said that the Federico Mora Hospital in ...
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viernes, 30 de noviembre de 2012
Native Americans testify on need to preserve identity in face of popular culture
Native Americans testify on need to preserve identity in face of popular culture
WASHINGTON – When nonnative people don war bonnets at Halloween or
Thanksgiving, when they give their sports teams names like Redskins,
they may argue that they are simply paying homage to Native Americans. Mary Kim Titla doesn't see it that way.
Pulling Back The Curtain On Mental Health
Pulling Back The Curtain On Mental Health: It is past time to incorporate mental health into our nation's public health agenda. Public health initiatives have increasingly focused on healthy living, diet, exercise, smoking cessation, and access to preventive health care. Our society usually ...
Fighting mental illness
Fighting mental illness: Maybe something good will come from the Shakespearean tragedy that is the Jesse Jackson Jr. saga: A deeper understanding of mental illness and more empathy for those afflicted with it. Or maybe not. The level of cynicism in these parts is so high that ...
Glentive hospital restarts mental health service in anti-suicide effort
Glentive hospital restarts mental health service in anti-suicide effort: Officials say there are many factors that contribute to that high rate, including the shortage of mental health professionals in rural Montana, the high rates of alcoholism and the prevalence of firearms. The lingering stigma surrounding mental illness ...
In US fight over gay marriage, both sides gearing up for more battles
In US fight over gay marriage, both sides gearing up for more battles: NEW YORK (Reuters) - After a watershed year for gay marriage in the United States that included ballot victories and a presidential endorsement, advocates have staked out a handful of states where they believe the next round of fights over same-sex ...
US: False advertising lawsuit filed against New Jersey group offering gay ...
US: False advertising lawsuit filed against New Jersey group offering gay ...
| Four gay men in New York
have filed a lawsuit accusing a New Jersey-based group of falsely
offering “conversion therapy”, with a view to “reversing” their
homosexuality. The four men attended Jews Offering New Alternatives to
Healing, or JONAH, based ... |
Native American designers fight cultural caricatures
Native American designers fight cultural caricatures: (CNN) -- This November, events nationwide celebrated the traditions, fashion and food of the nation's 566 recognized Indian tribes as part of Native American Heritage Month. But a few high profile missteps surrounding the use of indigenous cultural ...
Haiti to overhaul adoption laws to protect its children, curb child ...
Haiti to overhaul adoption laws to protect its children, curb child ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti is overhauling its adoption
laws for the first time in nearly 40 years in an attempt to end
practices that have allowed thousands of children to be trafficked out
of the country or suffer from neglect as they languish in ...
Weddings mean hope in Haiti
Weddings mean hope in Haiti:
| There was a strong Becker connection to a wedding celebration in Haiti in late October, where 10 couples took their vows before pastors from the Victory Bible Church, which is part of the Jesus in Haiti Ministries (JiHM) operation. News of the large ... |  Sherburne County Citizen |
The tragedy of a false Native American messiah
The tragedy of a false Native American messiah: One of these Native American messiahs was a minor Paiute chief named Tavibo (Dee Brown, "Fighting Indians of the West," Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974). He offered the same message of hope earlier Indian prophets had given, destruction of the whites ...
Venezuela's topsy-turvy economy
Venezuela's topsy-turvy economy: It has been pointed out before that Father Christmas and Hugo Chávez share a thing or two in common. Venezuela's populist president may not have the fluffy white beard, but he has roughly the right build, and sometimes the jovial temperament.
Mexican families carry out their own investigations to find the disappeared
Mexican families carry out their own investigations to find the disappeared:
| Meanwhile, Mexico's drug war spiralled out of control: tens of thousands were killed – more than 100,000 by some counts – and many others simply vanished. There is no reliable data on the number of people forcibly disappeared during the drug violence ... |  The Guardian |
'Roadmap' Offers Solutions To Rise Of Child Poverty In N.H.
'Roadmap' Offers Solutions To Rise Of Child Poverty In N.H.: The rising poverty level among children in New Hampshire led to the study, according to its authors. The population of children living below the federal poverty level almost doubled from 2000 to 2009, according ot the Annie E. Casey Kids Count report.
Cuba to singers: wash your potty mouth, or else
Cuba to singers: wash your potty mouth, or else
| HAVANA — Musicians that perform songs deemed vulgar or that "violate ethical standards" will now be punished in Cuba, the state-run Institute of Music said Friday. In communist Cuba, most everything -- especially the airwaves -- belongs to the government. |
Native American Art Gallery Opens Doors In Bellingham
Native American Art Gallery Opens Doors In Bellingham:
| ... American art gets the feminine touch in Whatcom County. High-quality authentic Native American art from around the region will be the focus of Coast Salish Creations a new gallery opening its doors tomorrow in the Bakerview Square Shopping Center. |  KGMI |
Justice on trial in Venezuela
Justice on trial in Venezuela: The Venezuelan judge understood President Hugo Chavez had taken an interest in the case of Eligio Cedeno, a banker charged with evading currency controls. When she released Cedeno on bail because he had been held without trial longer than the law ...
Ban on gay change therapy faces first legal test
Ban on gay change therapy faces first legal test:
| SACRAMENTO, CA (AP) - Lawyers for mental health practitioners who counsel gay clients to become straight are asking a federal judge to block a new California law that would ban such therapy with minors. A court hearing is scheduled Friday in U.S ... |  News10.net |
The Out NYC is in with the help of Fran Drescher
The Out NYC is in with the help of Fran Drescher: “The Out NYC is a first-of-its-kind lifestyle resort – gay-oriented, gay-owned, operated and programmed, and officially straight friendly,” says owner Ian Reisner. “PR is our major means to communicate what we've created. If we get that message out, we ...
To End AIDS Among Black Gay and Bi Men, There's a Need for Action
To End AIDS Among Black Gay and Bi Men, There's a Need for Action
The face of AIDS as imagined by some in America is that of a black gay or bisexual man. Indeed, black gay
and bisexual men, or men who have sex with men (MSM), have the highest
HIV rates in the country. Black MSM are commonly portrayed as as "down ...
Catholic activism on the death penalty; a brief dispatch from Denmark
Catholic activism on the death penalty; a brief dispatch from Denmark: Although the United States remains the lone member of the G8 to practice capital punishment, 17 American states have legally abolished the death penalty, most recently Connecticut in April. Veteran activists called that a remarkable shift in a short ...
American man marking 3 years in prison in Cuba, wife wants his story to be ...
American man marking 3 years in prison in Cuba, wife wants his story to be ...
WASHINGTON — Almost three years after her husband was arrested and jailed in Cuba, Judy Gross still talks to Americans
who haven't heard his story. Now she is speaking more openly than in
the past, hoping to make her husband's case as well-known as ...
Cuban dissidents denounce threats
Cuban dissidents denounce threats
The 68-year-old Sanchez runs the Cuban Commission for Human
Rights and National Reconciliation and acts as a de facto spokesman for
the island's small opposition group. He made the accusations in a letter
sent to foreign journalists Thursday that ...
Colombian negotiators meet with FARC rebels in Cuba
Colombian negotiators meet with FARC rebels in Cuba: Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Negotiators from Colombia's government and largest insurgent group concluded their first round of talks Thursday and voiced cautious optimism that they will eventually forge a peace deal. For 11 days, Colombian government ...
Chile jobless rate rises to 6.6 percent in Aug to Oct period
Chile jobless rate rises to 6.6 percent in Aug to Oct period: SANTIAGO Nov 30 (Reuters) - Chile's jobless rate for the August to October period rose to 6.6 percent as the work force grew faster than the increase in employment, following a July to September unemployment rate of 6.5 percent,the National Statistics ...
jueves, 29 de noviembre de 2012
Latin America is Increasingly Middle Class
Latin America is Increasingly Middle Class: A few hours ago, the UN's Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) issued the encouraging news that Latin America is getting more middle class. The agency's researchers found that the continent has fewer people in poverty ...
Police say Mexican Mafia prison gang led crime ring in Ventura County
Police say Mexican Mafia prison gang led crime ring in Ventura County: A 39-year-old man in an out-of-state prison directed a crime ring in Ventura County that forced competing gangs to work together and funneled money back to the Mexican Mafia prison gang, authorities said Tuesday. Martin Madrigal was among 27 people, ...
Chilean electoral court finds Salvador Allende's granddaughter lost mayor's ...
Chilean electoral court finds Salvador Allende's granddaughter lost mayor's ...
SANTIAGO, Chile - Chile's Electoral Court has ruled that
the granddaughter of President Salvador Allende lost her bid for mayor
by a razor-thin margin. Socialist Maya Fernandez Allende appeared to be
leading on election night in the race for mayor of ...
Argentina's debt holdouts say they're savers, not vultures
Argentina's debt holdouts say they're savers, not vultures: BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - A decade after Argentina's debt default turned their savings to dust, a U.S. judge has rekindled the hopes of pensioners and other small investors fighting for full repayment alongside hedge funds. U.S. District Judge Thomas ...
Chevron: court order harms its future in Argentina
Chevron: court order harms its future in Argentina: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Chevron's Argentina subsidiary has taken out full-page ads in the nation's leading newspapers to complain about a court order freezing its assets in the country, saying it has made operations difficult for the company. The ...
UN General Assembly will address drug war
UN General Assembly will address drug war: U.N. General Assembly will address drug war. Eventually. Via Drug Policy Alliance. Mexico's Foreign Ministry is reporting that the United Nations has accepted its resolution to hold a General Assembly special session on drugs. The session will take ...
Whooping cough vaccine safe for elderly
Whooping cough vaccine safe for elderly: OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- The tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis vaccine risk is similar to the tetanus and diphtheria vaccine for those ages 65 and older, U.S. researchers say. Hung Fu Tseng and his team at Kaiser Permanente Southern ...
Manitoba's child poverty rate 2nd highest in Canada
Manitoba's child poverty rate 2nd highest in Canada: Manitoba's child and family poverty rate is the second highest in the country, according to the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg. According to the council, 20 per cent of Manitoba children and families are still living in poverty. Marianne Cerilli ...
Victims of priest's abuse sue Chile church
Victims of priest's abuse sue Chile church: SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Three men who were abused by a Catholic priest in Chile decades ago say the church has given them no choice but to sue. James Hamilton, Jose Andres Murillo and Juan Carlos Cruz filed a lawsuit against the archdiocese ...
Supreme Court on verge of taking up same-sex marriage
Supreme Court on verge of taking up same-sex marriage: Less certain is whether the justices will consider California's Proposition 8, approved by voters in 2008 but since declared unconstitutional by two federal courts. If they don't, gays and lesbians in the nation's largest state will be able to marry ...
Brazilian charity breaks the cycle of poverty and illness | Feast
Brazilian charity breaks the cycle of poverty and illness | Feast:
 | Awesome Brazilian organization breaks the cycle of poverty and illness by getting kids and ... |
Venezuela's Chavez doing well in Cuba: vice president
Venezuela's Chavez doing well in Cuba: vice president: CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is doing well as he receives medical treatment in Cuba, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday, despite a two-week absence from public view that has raised fresh doubts about his health.
Experts call for mental illness screening for children
Experts call for mental illness screening for children: LONDON (Reuters) - Leading mental health experts are calling for school children to be screened for risk of mental illnesses such as depression and have devised a test that reliably identifies those at high risk. The test can be done on a computer and ...
Wildcat overcomes mental disorder to succeed
Wildcat overcomes mental disorder to succeed: Junior Jason Conrad took a year off from school and left a scholarship at Portland State University while working through bipolar disorder. After his time off, he transferred to Chico State in a better mental state and has become a fixture within a ...
Mental Illness Strikes 1 In 5 Adults
Mental Illness Strikes 1 In 5 Adults: The current finding was reported by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH): Mental Health Findings report shows the results relating to mental he alt from the ...
5 things you should know about gay conversion therapy
5 things you should know about gay conversion therapy:
| But mainstream psychologists say the therapy is ineffective, unethical and often harmful, exacerbating anxiety and self-hatred among those treated for what is not a mental disorder. Here are five things you need to know about the therapy and the ... |  Mother Nature Network |
Mental Health Bill is huge 'leap forward'
Mental Health Bill is huge 'leap forward': Health Minister Joseph Cassar has described the Mental Health Bill as “a great leap forward” from the existing Act as patients now had full autonomy in safeguarding their rights without interference. Winding up the debate in the second reading of the ...
Peru has third highest poverty reduction rate in region
Peru has third highest poverty reduction rate in region: The UN agency said Tuesday that the percentage of people living in poverty in Peru fell to 27.8% last year from 31.3% in 2010 and 54.7% in 2002. ECLAC also predicted that the region will end the year with 167 million people living in poverty (or 28.8 ...
UN Peru Posts One of Region's Best Reductions in Poverty in 2011 ...
UN Peru Posts One of Region's Best Reductions in Poverty in 2011 ...: Peru posted one of the biggest declines in poverty in Latin America in 2011, falling 3.5 percentage points from the previous year, according to the United.
Students learn about Native Americans
Students learn about Native Americans:
| Doug Harmon talks with students about a Native American bonnet at the downtown Fort Worth library Tuesday. Fort Worth ISD students took field trips to the library as part of a lesson on native Americans. They learned about the math involved with ... |  Fort Worth Star Telegram |
How the US last paid off its debt: Stealing land from Native - Quartz
How the US last paid off its debt: Stealing land from Native - Quartz: The ongoing political scramble over how to avoid the fiscal cliff has put everybody in a somewhat wondrous mood about the level of US government debt, currently hovering around $16 trillion. How did it get that big? Did the US always have it ...
Student American Indian Fellowship hopes to raise awareness about Native ...
Student American Indian Fellowship hopes to raise awareness about Native ...:
| (Left to right) Junior Jessica Lindner, senior Ben Jacuk, sophomore Anna Grace Hodge and junior Kyle Quiroz are leaders of the Student American Indian Fellowship. On Tuesday, Nov. 27, they organized a showing of The Canary Effect, a documentary that ... |  Chimes |
NY gays accuse NJ therapy group of false promises
NY gays accuse NJ therapy group of false promises: NEW YORK (AP) — Four gay men are accusing a New Jersey organization of fraud for selling "conversion therapy" that falsely promised to make them straight.
Women And Minorities Aren't Getting Anywhere But Gay Lawyers Are Having ...
Women And Minorities Aren't Getting Anywhere But Gay Lawyers Are Having ...:
| The success of gay lawyers in New York City has been skyrocketing in recent years. Too bad women and minorities have had no such luck. Citing a recent NYC Bar Association study, The Careerist is reporting openly gay attorneys represented 3.6 of all ... |  Business Insider |
Buenos Aires begins largest trial of crimes against humanity in Argentina
Buenos Aires begins largest trial of crimes against humanity in Argentina:
| The trial of 68 former officials, who are facing some 800 charges of kidnap, torture and murder associated with an elite naval college, began on Wednesday in the capital Buenos Aires, AFP reported. During the seven-year junta period, almost 5,000 ... |  Press TV |
miércoles, 28 de noviembre de 2012
Lesbian beaten on Thanksgiving Day claims attack wasn't hate crime
Lesbian beaten on Thanksgiving Day claims attack wasn't hate crime
| The family of Mallory Owens, 23, who was badly beaten on Thanksgiving Day, said she was attacked because she is gay. Owens told a local TV station she doesn't ... See all stories on this topic » |  |
New LatAm network aims to help infertile couples
New LatAm network aims to help infertile couples
| Some 400 couples from across the continent gathered in Santiago, Chile
last week for a conference to launch The Latin American Network for
Infertile Patients. "The network aims to bring together people with
fertility problems, not only heterosexual ... |
Communal state advances in Venezuela
Communal state advances in Venezuela: Barely a wink after the October presidential elections, Venezuelans will once again be returning to the polls on Sunday, December 16. With Hugo Chávez re-elected for another six years with 54 percent of the vote, but absent and silent for the last 12 ...
Opposition governor in Venezuela says his supporters attacked during ...
Opposition governor in Venezuela says his supporters attacked during ...
CARACAS, Venezuela — The opposition governor of Lara state in central Venezuela
says he and his followers were attacked with guns, tear gas and stones
during a political event, presumably by rival ruling party supporters.
Henri Falcon, who is running ...
A Puerto Rican soprano honored for providing stages for Latinos in classical music
A Puerto Rican soprano honored for providing stages for Latinos in classical music
| The New York-born Puerto Rican, soprano singer Eva de la O – whose orchestra just performed at the Merkin Concert Hall last week – is one of six Puerto Ricans to be honored this year on Friday at the Comité Noviembre's 17th Annual Gala benefit in New ... |
How Cell Phones Are Fighting Poverty In Latin America
How Cell Phones Are Fighting Poverty In Latin America: The stated goal of the Grameen Foundation is to help the world's poorest improve their lives and escape poverty by helping to provide access to financial services , such as small loans and savings account, to find new ways to generate income and obtain ...
Op-Ed: Jewish organizations have made great strides in gay inclusion—but must ...
Op-Ed: Jewish organizations have made great strides in gay inclusion—but must ...
BOSTON (JTA) -- At the 2009 General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington, 50 lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender Jews and their allies gathered in a small room
on the ninth floor of the conference hotel. The event was ...
Rise of the new gay villains
Rise of the new gay villains: NEW YORK -. Meet the new gay villains of television and film: If their wrists are bent, it's probably to cut someone's throat. Far from their limp-wristed, lisping predecessors, the modern-day villains of “Skyfall” and “Dexter” do their own dirty work ...
NY gays accuse NJ therapy group of false promises
NY gays accuse NJ therapy group of false promises: NEW YORK — Four gay young men are accusing a New Jersey organization of selling "conversion therapy" promising to make them straight. They told a Manhattan news conference on Tuesday that they were subjected to humiliations including having to ...
Anne Hathaway Should Thank Her Gay Brother In Oscar Acceptance Speech
Anne Hathaway Should Thank Her Gay Brother In Oscar Acceptance Speech: Speaking with a preview audience in New York, Hathaway said of the 'do, “When I eventually looked in the mirror I just thought I looked like my gay brother.” Anne has long been a vocal ally to the LGBT community – recently donating the sales of her ...
'Kill The Gays' Uganda Bill Allegedly Supported By American Organizations
'Kill The Gays' Uganda Bill Allegedly Supported By American Organizations: 'Kill The Gays' Uganda Bill Allegedly Supported By American Organizations An Anti-Homosexuality bill in Uganda, called the “Kill The Gays” bill since an earlier version called for the death penalty, is allegedly being supported by American ...
Schizophrenia: The shame of silence, the relief of disclosure
Schizophrenia: The shame of silence, the relief of disclosure
Overall this silence about mental illness has had profoundly
negative effects. It is self-isolating and degrading for a person with
psychoses, and refusal to speak can transmute into a sort of shame.
People with such a disorder are frequently reliant ...
Order of Psychiatric Diagnoses May Influence How Clinicians Identify Symptoms
Order of Psychiatric Diagnoses May Influence How Clinicians Identify Symptoms
The diagnostic system used by many mental health practitioners in the United States — known as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — assumes that symptoms of two disorders that occur at the same time are additive and that the ...
Wildcat overcomes mental disorder to succeed
Wildcat overcomes mental disorder to succeed: That was one of the worst battles Conrad has had with bipolar disorder, a disease that affects nearly 5.7 million American adults, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Bipolar disorder is a chemical imbalance in the brain that creates ...
Commentary: New movie presents skewed view of bipolar disorder
Commentary: New movie presents skewed view of bipolar disorder
This unfortunate term conjures up just those damaging and misleading images of mental illnesses
that media like to portray. Furthermore, “mental hospital” is not a
clinical term. By not clearly distinguishing between the forensic
hospital that Solitano ...
New book recounts the rise of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans in Chicago
New book recounts the rise of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans in Chicago: A new book published by the University of Chicago deals with the issue of immigration and integration of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans after World War II in this city. "Brown In The Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago" is the work of ...
Dallas Trucker Talks About Time in Mexican Prison
Dallas Trucker Talks About Time in Mexican Prison:
| A Texas trucker arrested after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border with 268,000 bullets said Wednesday that he feared for his safety during seven months in a Mexican prison with nine people in a cell with only five beds. Jabin Bogan said he slept on the ... |  ABC News |
UF launches human rights collaboration in Colombia
UF launches human rights collaboration in Colombia
| Administrators noted that the recent end of a civil war in the South American country and free trade agreements have made the advancement of human rights there of greater interest to the United States. Columbia is a close trading partner with Florida. |
Central American youths increasingly forced to flee to the US to escape gang ...
Central American youths increasingly forced to flee to the US to escape gang ...
For years, war and poverty were the main reasons that young people from Mexico and Central America
headed to the United States. But in recent years, it is gang violence
that's causing more and more youngsters to make their way north. Death
threats from ...
Mushroom Poisoning Kills Fourth Person at Senior Care Facility in California
Mushroom Poisoning Kills Fourth Person at Senior Care Facility in California: Another elderly person at a senior care facility in Northern California died on Tuesday from eating soup made from poisonous mushrooms. She was identified as Dorothy Mary Hart. The Placer County Sheriff's Department said that there have been three ...
Public hospitals in Buenos Aires province go on strike
Public hospitals in Buenos Aires province go on strike: Staff from 77 public hospitals across Buenos Aires province, belonging to workers union CICOP, went on strike for two hours today demanding improved security at health centres, following a violent incident at Fiorito Hospital on Sunday. Hospital ...
Buenos Aires: 2018 YOG bid greets the First Sports Leaders Congress
Buenos Aires: 2018 YOG bid greets the First Sports Leaders Congress
| Attended
by hundreds of athletes, sports executives, media and manufacturers
from around globe, the gathering's keynote address was delivered by
Francisco Irarrazaval, the undersecretary of sport who's also heading up
Buenos Aires' 2018 Bid Committee. |
Copts, US pastor sentenced to death over anti-Islam movie
Copts, US pastor sentenced to death over anti-Islam movie: The Cairo Criminal Court handed down the death penalty to the seven Egyptian Christians, including the film's maker. The American pastor, Terry Jones, who heads a small congregation in Florida, was also sentenced to death. They were sentenced for their ...
Scamming elderly Asians rising rapidly worldwide - California State ...
Scamming elderly Asians rising rapidly worldwide - California State ...: On a sunny fall Saturday at a farmer's market in San Francisco, three women aggressively approached a Chinese woman in her 60s. Authorities say they told ...
Calif. cross-dresser accused of murdering, dismembering and cooking elderly wife
Calif. cross-dresser accused of murdering, dismembering and cooking elderly wife:
| Calif. cross-dresser accused of murdering, dismembering and cooking elderly wife. Cops found parts of Anna Faris' body cooking on the stove and her severed head in the freezer. Her husband was caught at a nearby bar having a beer. Neighbors say the ... |  New York Daily News |
martes, 27 de noviembre de 2012
$3.4B Native American lawsuit ends
$3.4B Native American lawsuit ends: HELENA, Mont. (AP) – After nearly 17 years of courtroom arguments, congressional negotiations and Indian Country bickering, hundreds of thousands of Native Americans could see the first payments of a $3.4 billion U.S. government settlement by the end ...
Cuban currency force medics to change careers
Cuban currency force medics to change careers: Cuba's two-currency system, the Cuban peso and the CUC which is also known as the "convertible currency" has economic benefits. But it is forcing some medical professionals to change careers. Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports from Havana, Cuba.
80 Pct of Cuban AIDS patients diagnosed since 1986 still alive
80 Pct of Cuban AIDS patients diagnosed since 1986 still alive: The number of people diagnosed with AIDS in Cuba from 1986 to Oct. 23, 2012 totals some 17,224, of whom 80 percent are still alive, official media said Monday. In a statement to the official weekly Trabajadores, the head of AIDS prevention and control ...
Largest 'Dirty War' trial set to open in Argentina
Largest 'Dirty War' trial set to open in Argentina
| BUENOS AIRES
— A trial involving 800 cases of human rights abuses during Argentina's
1976-1983 military junta is set to open Wednesday, chronicling the use
of torture and murder during the dictatorship. The trial in Buenos Aires, "was, is and will be ... |
Fla. man sues ex-Elmo puppeteer, claims NY abuse
Fla. man sues ex-Elmo puppeteer, claims NY abuse: NEW YORK (AP) — A Florida man has sued the ex-Elmo puppeteer who resigned amid a sex scandal, saying the voice actor met him in New York after trolling gay telephone chat lines seeking underage boys for sex.
Lawsuit Filed Against Jersey City Organization Promising Gay Conversions
Lawsuit Filed Against Jersey City Organization Promising Gay Conversions:
| NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A group in New Jersey that claims its can turn gay people straight is facing a lawsuit from some young men who say they paid for nothing but abuse. The group Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing, or JONAH, promises on ... |  CBS Local |
TAM launches new service between Rio de Janeiro and Santiago
TAM launches new service between Rio de Janeiro and Santiago:
| São Paulo, Brazil - TAM Airlines has started operating a new daily nonstop flight between Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Galeão Airport) and Santiago, Chile. On 2 January 2013, São Paulo will also receive another frequency to the Chilean capital, giving a ... |  eTurboNews |
Devaluation increases Venezuela's debt burden on the economy
Devaluation increases Venezuela's debt burden on the economy: Pressured by the growing gap between expenditure and income, it is very likely that the Venezuelan Government devaluates the local currency (bolivar) in 2013. Such an action may increase the amount of bolivars it will receive per the so-called ...
State, inmates far apart on ceremonial tobacco
State, inmates far apart on ceremonial tobacco: SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota corrections officials and an organization of Native American inmates are far apart on their suggested revisions to a prison policy regulating the use of tobacco in religious ceremonies. Chief Judge Karen Schreier ...
Venezuela seizes contraband ammo in shipment from US
Venezuela seizes contraband ammo in shipment from US: Venezuela's militarized police on Tuesday seized 18,000 rounds of ammunition hidden in a container unloaded from a vessel that arrived from the United States, the Interior Ministry reported. The ammunition found in the northwestern port of Maracaibo ...
Venezuelan judge says she was raped in jail
Venezuelan judge says she was raped in jail: An arrested judge at the centre of one of Venezuela's most prominent human rights cases was raped in prison and then had an abortion behind bars after becoming pregnant, according to the judge's lawyer and a book published last week in Caracas that has ...
NY Gay Football League's 8th Annual Bachelor Auction To Benefit Ali Forney ...
NY Gay Football League's 8th Annual Bachelor Auction To Benefit Ali Forney ...: On Thursday, November 29, the New York Gay Football League will host its Eighth Annual Bachelor Auction at Splash Bar on 50 W. 17th St (between 6th and 7th Aves) at 8pm. Proceeds from this year's auction will benefit the Ali Forney Center, recently ...
CDC: HIV spread high in young gay males
CDC: HIV spread high in young gay males: NEW YORK — Health officials say 1 in 5 new HIV infections occur in a tiny segment of the population - young men who are gay or bisexual. The government on Tuesday released new numbers that spotlight how the spread of the AIDS virus is heavily ...
Bolivia's child workers unite to end exploitation
Bolivia's child workers unite to end exploitation: Rodrigo Medrano Calle is a Bolivian labour leader who meets and lobbies top ... In a country where poverty is widespread and the minimum wage is $150 a ...
Hugo Chavez Heading to Cuba for More Treatment
Hugo Chavez Heading to Cuba for More Treatment: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced plans to travel to Cuba as early as Tuesday for more medical treatment after spending much of the past 18 months fighting cancer. In a written request to the legislature, which was read on television by ...
Colombian rebels say peace talks going well, negotiators 'on same wavelength'
Colombian rebels say peace talks going well, negotiators 'on same wavelength'
Ten-strong rebel and government negotiating teams sit on opposite sides
of a long table at the convention center, with Norwegian and Cuban guarantors also present. The teams break for snacks and coffee every hour or so, and can chat informally among ...
The Mockery of Cuba Sanctions Exceptions
The Mockery of Cuba Sanctions Exceptions: Early in his administration, President Barack Obama lifted a number of long-standing sanctions on Cuba. According to the Washington Post report from the time: White House officials said the decision to lift travel and spending restrictions on Americans ...
Chile Peso Snaps Two-Day Drop as Greek Debt Deal Supports Risk
Chile Peso Snaps Two-Day Drop as Greek Debt Deal Supports Risk: The peso was little changed at 481.54 per U.S. dollar at 10:48 a.m. in Santiago after dropping 1 percent over the past two trading days. International investors in the Chilean peso forwards market cut their bets against the currency to a six- month low ...
UN: Latin American poverty lowest in 3 decades
UN: Latin American poverty lowest in 3 decades
SANTIAGO, Chile — The number of people living in poverty
in Latin America and the Caribbean has dropped to its lowest level in
three decades, the UN's regional economic body said on Tuesday. Despite
lower poverty levels overall, 167 million people in ...
This British Reporter Lived Life On A Female Chain Gang In The Blazing Arizona ...
This British Reporter Lived Life On A Female Chain Gang In The Blazing Arizona ...:
| Up at 5am and dressed in prison stripes, they march to order and labour in temperatures of 40°C. Nigel Farndale meets members of the world's only female chain gang – the pride of 'America's toughest lawman'. Until I watch the prisoners line up ... |  Business Insider |
U. student joins suit challenging 'conversion therapy' for gay people
U. student joins suit challenging 'conversion therapy' for gay people: The four gay men, Michael Ferguson, who lives in Salt Lake City, Benjamin Unger, Chaim Levin and Sheldon Bruck, all of New York City, underwent conversion therapy at a New Jersey center called JOHAH, Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing.
Venezuela's private construction down 10.7%
Venezuela's private construction down 10.7%: Central Bank's data shows that the construction sector grew 12.6% from July-September amid reported growth in the public sector. For its part, the construction private sector has fallen for 11 straight quarters ...
Public hospitals to strike tomorrow
Public hospitals to strike tomorrow: Buenos Aires provincial public hospital workers union CICOP said yesterday that a strike will be held across the entire province tomorrow demanding improved security at health centres, after it was reported that the police presence had increased at the ...
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