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Junio 2006
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30.06.2006
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted down a proposal that would have effectively disenfranchised millions of American citizens who do not speak English very well, reports CivilRights.org.
Leer másOrganización: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights/Leadership Conference Education Fund |
30.06.2006
An open-ended hunger strike will be launched on the Fourth of July in front of the White House and around the country, demanding U.S. troops return home from Iraq immediately. Find out how you can be involved.
Leer másOrganización: CODEPINK: Women for Peace Temas relacionados: [Iraq] Imagen: Following Mahatma Gandhi's example: fasting for peace. © CODEPINK: Women for Peace
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30.06.2006
Global trade can promote economic and social progress, but a ten-lane super highway, which could begin construction as early as 2007, may pose serious environmental, trade, and national security risks, warns the Worldwatch Institute.
Leer másOrganización: Worldwatch Institute Temas relacionados: [México] [Canadá] Imagen: Many are concerned about a 10-lane "super highway" between Mexico and Canada. © Worldwatch Institute
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30.06.2006
The US is maneuvering at world trade talks in Geneva this week to insert a special clause in trade negotiations that would make its illegal use of farm subsidies immune from prosecution, an international agency said today.
Leer másOrganización: Oxfam International Imagen: Trade justice campaigner
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28.06.2006
The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it is prepared to enter the global warming debate and consider a lawsuit that aims to require the federal government to regulate green house gas emissions from motor vehicles.
Leer másOrganización: Environment News Service (ENS) Imagen: Congested traffic on the highway. © Worldwatch Institute
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28.06.2006
The US has perpetually been in denial about global warming, especially after the Earth Summit in Rio De Janerio held in 1992, but a recent report released by the US Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) may shake it out of its complacency. The report adds ammunition for lobbies within the US and forces outside it for pushing the world’s only superpower towards signing the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
Leer másOrganización: Centre for Science and Environment Temas relacionados: [Cooperación Internacional] [Cambio Climático] [Gobierno] |
28.06.2006
A 12-point programme for ending the US-initiated system of "renditions" and secret detentions in Europe has been drawn up by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists and the Association for the Prevention of Torture.
Leer másOrganización: Amnesty International - International Secretariat Temas relacionados: [Europa ] |
28.06.2006
Huolimatta USA:n varaulkoministerin kommenteista Venezuelan interventionismia vastaan, USA on itse päättänyt jatkaa sekaantumistaan Latinalaisen Amerikan politiikkaan tukemalla Yhdysvaltain armeijan koulutuskeskusta alueella. Pahamaineinen School of Americas on vuosien varrella kouluttanut alueelle diktaattoreita ja tukenut verisiä hyökkäyksiä kapinallisia vastaan.
Leer másOrganización: UnMundo América Latina Temas relacionados: [Anguila] [Gobierno] [Armas & Ejército] Imagen: Presidentti George W. Bush ja Latinalainen Amerikka © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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27.06.2006
More...Temas relacionados: [Tierra] [Exclusión Social] [Narcóticos] Imagen: Jericho (© Video Volunteers)
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27.06.2006
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether the Bush administration must regulate carbon dioxide to combat global warming, setting up what could be one of the court's most important decisions on the environment.
Leer másOrganización: Environmental News Network |
26.06.2006
As football fans enjoy the world cup, the Control Arms campaign is getting ready to kick off a whole series of events at the crucial UN Conference on Small Arms, which starts today. Visit The Stadium and score one for the campaign.
Leer másTemas relacionados: [PolÃtica] [Armas & Ejército] Imagen: Control Arms gets football fever © Intermón Oxfam
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23.06.2006
Following Congress’s eighth pay raise since 1997 and the recent defeat of minimum-wage legislation in the Senate, the American Friends Service Committee, urged the House of Representatives to raise the federal minimum wage, which stands at $5.15 an hour.
Leer másOrganización: American Friends Service Committee Imagen: A person who works 52 weeks a year, 40 hours a week at the minimum wage of $5.15 an hour earns just $10,700. © American Friends Service Committee
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22.06.2006
A Pentagon document has surfaced that classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, grouping it with retardation and personality disorder.
Leer másOrganización: Feminist Majority Foundation |
22.06.2006
The American Friends Service Committe says the Hagel-Martinez Amendment, proposed by the Senate, is not comprehensive enough and does nothing to permanently accept and incorporate undocumented workers into the nation’s social and economic landscape.
Leer másOrganización: American Friends Service Committee Imagen: AFSC is calling for "truly comprehensive" reform for the proposed immigration policy bill in the Senate. © American Friends Service Committee
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21.06.2006
Advocates in Nigeria and the US have criticised a major new report from the State Department in Washington for ignoring the trafficking of Nigerian women into the US, and warned that the omission could undermine efforts to draw the huge Nigerian diaspora into the fight against household slavery in the US.
Leer másOrganización: Advocacy Project Temas relacionados: [Nigeria] |
21.06.2006
The entire global political system has been fruitlessly distracted for nearly half a decade by 9/11 and its consequences, says John Sloboda. The US-led ‘war on terror’ not only fails to address the real threats facing humanity, it is exacerbating them, and bringing closer the likelihood of their devastating impacts on human and environmental security.
Leer másImagen: Saving us and the planet © Anne Ward
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21.06.2006
The Global Resources and Opportunities for Women to Thrive Act (GROWTH Act) is groundbreaking legislation that, if passed, would help remove barriers that prevent women from participating in their countries’ economies. Learn more about what the bill will do and who supports it.
Leer másOrganización: Women Thrive Worldwide Imagen: Afghan women gather to nominate women electoral candidates. © Teressa Rerras / Peace X Peace
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20.06.2006
On one side, the big phone companies and cable providers, who want Congress to help them speed up the move into the video market and keep government regulation at a minimum. On the other side: customers, who want Congress to make sure that the Internet does not become a fast lane for those who can pay - and a dirt road for those who can not. Gail Russell Chaddock reports.
Leer másOrganización: Christian Science Monitor Imagen: The Internet: who's to benefit? © Peter Armstrong
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19.06.2006
From Green Skeptic:
Leer másMore and more electricity used in the U.S. is coming from renewable energy, says a new report. Temas relacionados: [Cambio Climático] [EnergÃa Renovable] Imagen: Wind turbines © Safe Climate / SafeClimate.net (World Resources Institute)
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18.06.2006
The makers of the film of Al Gore's climate change lecture, which he has given more than 1,000 times, hope it will help sound the alert about the need to take urgent action on climate change.
Leer más+ OneWorld's Climate Justice campaign + Carbon countdown Organización: OneWorld UK Temas relacionados: [Cambio Climático] Imagen: An Inconvenient Truth
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