Foreign diplomats or working class Venezuelans are equally victims of so-called ‘express kidnappings’, a form of theft also known in other Latin American cities, where armed criminals kidnap their victims to take to the nearest ATM to steal as much cash.
In the midst of a long list of problems, including a double-digit inflation, a large fiscal deficit, or the decay of roads and oil insecurity is arguably the main shortcoming of the government of President Hugo Chavez died. One problem that much of the population has lost the hope that is corrected. Read Article
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On March 20, 2013, SENoticias reported that a civil policeman in the northeastern town of Nossa Senhora do Socorro was arrested and jailed on Monday for allegedly assaulting his two stepchildren sexually. The two teenagers’ names were not released, but they are 19 and 16 years old, respectively. Both have made a statement to the […]
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According to mercopress.com, Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, came on stage to once again question the Government of President Cristina Fernandez. In an interview with the Spanish media, the dictator said that in case the Kirchnerites try to “perpetuate in power, the armed and security forces along with the people will prevent it.” “Kirchnerism […]
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Clarin.com reported that In General Campos Argentina, municipal tax bills arrived with the words “patriot, kill a Jew”. Wide repudiation. Disbelief first and broad anger are reactions after they have won all General Campos receiving municipal tax ballot marked “patriot, kill a Jew”. The commune, tiny, is located in the center entrerriano and is the […]
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On March 18, 2013, O Povo reported that a study done in Fortaleza, the capital of the state of Ceará, registered some 949 attacks against senior citizens in the city. The number marks a 30.5% rise from 2011. Most of the cases reported, however, are settled out of court, according to the report. Between 2006 […]
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The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations (UN) on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Najat Maalla M’Jid, recently lamented that despite efforts by the Guatemalan authorities, many children are victims of sexual exploitation and forced labor. Read Article
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Representatives of the March of Silence lamented violence against Guatemalan children, which has left 73 dead children, in addition to the violations of their rights. Read Article
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Nearly 300,000 young people aged 15 to 24 who are working or seeking employment in our country, a population that represents about a third of the total number of boys in that age. Among young workers, half working in trade, agriculture or industry, three quarters are single and three-quarters also have one or more children. […]
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Nicaraguadispatch.com reported that…….Despite a period of steady economic expansion under the second coming of the Sandinista government, Nicaragua has not made any notable progress in the United Nation’s Human Development Index over the past six years. In the 2013 index, released by the United Nations Development Project (UNDP) last Friday, Nicaragua ranks 129th in the […]
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Drugs cartels are silencing the Mexican press according to rnw.nl. More and more Mexican newspapers are deciding to stop reporting crime news. And drugs cartels are increasingly succeeding in influencing the editorial line of the Mexican media. Journalists, bloggers and editors who criticise the activities of organised crime groups face death, kidnapping, decapitation or mutilation……Read […]
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On March 11, 2013, 24 Horas News reported that a transvestite in Brazil was killed in the city of Cuiabá, capital of the state of Mato Grosso. He was found this morning strangled, with the suspect’s glasses stuffed down his throat. The victim’s name was Alexandre Moura de Mello, or “Shandô,” and he was 31 […]
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On March 8, 2013, A Tarde reported that in Brazil in 2012, ten women were assaulted every hour in the country. These numbers come from statistics reported by the federal Women’s Assistance Center’s Ligue 180 campaign. Physical violence represented the most frequent of the 88,000+ incidents, at 50,236 (56%); other cases included psychological (28%), sexual […]
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On March 6, 2013, A Tarde reported that residents of a quilombo community in Bahia are protesting against actions recently taken by the Brazilian Navy to take land claimed by the residents in Simões Filho, part of the Salvador Metropolitan Area. Close to 400 protesters stood in front of the Federal Attorneys’ Office today, requesting […]
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On March 1, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the Christian Social Party (PSC), poised to head the Brazilian government’s Human Rights Commission, will nominate evangelical pastor Marco Feliciano to head the corpus. Feliciano has faced criticism in the past for making derogatory comments towards homosexuals and blacks. The PSC serves as part […]
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On February 28, 2013, Campo Grande News reported that five Paraguayan women and one Brazilian were rescued by local police early this morning from a brothel in Naviraí, Mato Grosso do Sul, about 360 kilometers from the state capital of Campo Grande. Two of the women complained to local police that the owner of a […]
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The International Labour Organization (ILO) yesterday reported that about nine million children and adolescents work in Latin America, with the most serious cases in Brazil, Peru, Mexico and Colombia. “Brazil has the largest number of working children in Latin America, followed by Peru, Mexico followed, and fourth in Colombia, not to mention to Haiti,” said […]
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Authorities of the National Literacy Committee confirmed Monday that illiteracy in the country is 16.63 percent rate reduction in 2013 seeking to declare six departments free of illiteracy. The highest rates of illiteracy in the country and are in Joyabaj Chichicastenango, Quiché, and Panzós, Alta Verapaz, a record with more than 45 percent. Read Article
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On February 25, 2013, Diário do Nordeste reported that a 14 year-old girl has disappeared from the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, Ceará, after being lured by a man on Facebook. Larissa Gadelha de Sousa disappeared on Tuesday morning, after she left for school. Since Tuesday morning, the family has heard nothing of her whereabouts. The […]
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On February 22, 2013, Rondonoticias reported that a local policeman was among 19 arrested in a local sting in the town of Ariquemes, a town about 200 km south of Porto Velho, the state capital of Rondônia. The arrest was part of a larger operation, Operação Afrodite, in which police monitored the actions of ten […]
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On February 22, 2013, Diário do Nordeste reported that a search done in one of the state penitentiaries in the Brazilian state of Ceará produced an interesting find: police discovered a stash of drugs and no less than 210 cellular phones. The search was conducted after the prisoners decided to start a hunger strike, as […]
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According Survivors alert was created to save the lives of children who have been taken by different strangers who have custody or care with the intent to harm, but the law has been “distorted” as it is being used to custody issues when the parent takes the child which does not merit activate the Alba-Kenneth, […]
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On February 21, 2013, Gazeta do Povo reported that civil police in Curitiba will investigate the deaths of patients since 2006 at Curitiba’s General Evangelical Hospital on suspicions that the Chief of Medicine at the time, Virginia Helena Soares de Souza, made decisions to cut off life support without consent. To clarify, a police spokesperson […]
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The neighborhood of the cooperative Los Nogales, next to Juan Eulogio sector, in Santo Domingo, was alarmed when he saw a mother bury her two unborn children in the backyard. Residents imagined that Mrs. killed them, but the reality was different. The alarm prompted the prosecutor and the police, which came last Tuesday night to […]
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A Mario G., 47 years, two policemen waited near the polling station where he would vote. The relatives of the arrested said that the military was with the mother of one of his four children. He was then transferred in handcuffs to the Provisional Detention Center of Quito (CDP). Jairo A. (30 years) said that […]
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On February 18, 2013, G1 reported that a pair of nightclub owners from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state, are being transferred to Belém, the state capital of Pará, to face human trafficking charges. The duo owned nightclubs in Altamira, about 900 kilometers from Belém, and was arrested last Wednesday. They face charges of […]
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Increased arrests of teenagers involved in micro-networks of drug trafficking Eleven micro-drug traffickers, including nine teenagers, were captured during the last 96 hours by police officers of Tachira in different locations in the region, who were surprised when they sold banned substances in the form of retail. Jim Ortuño, Politáchira Executive Secretary, reported that this […]
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On February 19, 2013, Diário do Nordeste reported that the state of Ceará, in the northeast of Brazil, has less than one doctor per 1,000 inhabitants, among the lowest of all states. Although the capital city of Fortaleza has around three doctors for every 1,000, other parts of the state have rates as low as […]
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On February 18, 2013, D24AM reported that federal prosecutors are traveling to the Brazilian state of Pará to investigate a ring of sexual abuse cases that occurred at the Belo Monte plant, situated between Altamira and Vitória do Xingu. To this day, the report cites 32 women and adolescents who were freed in the past […]
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lahora.com.gt reported …..the low labor supply, inequality and poverty are some of the factors that make thousands of Guatemalans change their residence within the country and migrate to the capital, where the greatest concentration of economic activity and growth opportunities in the country. In this regard, Elizabeth Enriquez, Executive Director of the National Bureau for […]
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On February 18, 2013, R7 reported that a man in Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas Gerais, Gustavo Pereira da Silva, was arrested yesterday after he attempted to rape a homeless woman. Police also reported that he was under the influence of crack at the time. He also made threats as he was […]
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vision.org (Reuters) A series of original studies commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) quantify the costs of crime and violence in Latin America and the Caribbean using a combination of crime, health and economic statistics to come to fresh conclusions. In Brazil, one study found people pay an extra $13 billion to gain a […]
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In Mexico teen pregnancy is socially discriminated, without recognizing that the majority of cases is a result of sexual abuse, rape and social isolation. In the case of the 9 year old girl who gave birth in Jalisco, we talk about a case of sexual violence, as in any type of sex with minors, half […]
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42% of the members of the FARC is for children recruited, while in 44% of ELN insurgents are minors. People used to talk that 14,000 children were associated with armed groups outside the law. The latest report of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare in conjunction with political scientist Natalia Springer, revealed that the figure […]
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On February 11, 2013, A Crítica reported that an 83 year-old man from Manaus, the state capital of Amazonas, was arrested by local police yesterday. He was suspected of sexually assaulting a 14 year-old indigenous girl. The tip came after a local restaurant owner accused the man of assault after he claimed the young girl […]
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On January 27, 2013, 24 Horas News reported that in the city of Cuiabá, capital of the state of Mato Grosso, local police provided shelter for 450 victims of child abuse in 2012. Most of the crimes that required shelter were sexual in nature. The unit also conducted some 619 investigations of child abuse, compared […]
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avn.info.ve reported that during the last six years in Ecuador have decreased poverty-related diseases, such as tuberculosis and malaria through health prevention policies, tracking cases and economic growth of Ecuadorian families. Senplades revealed that out of 100,000 inhabitants, 3.3 died from tuberculosis in 2011, in contrast to 7.8 annual deaths were recorded in 2001. For […]
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china.org.cn reported that Costa Rica account starting today with a new law against human trafficking offenses and punishing new increases penalties for those who engage in this scourge, reported the Directorate General of Immigration. Costa Rica account starting today with a new law against human trafficking offenses and punishing new increases penalties for those who […]
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Radio.uchile.cl reported….In 2011 was published the miserable situation in which 57 were Paraguayan citizens working illegally in the estates of businessman Francisco Javier Errazuriz. This revealed that human trafficking is a reality in Chile but little known patent. Proof of this is that only in November 2012 created a special police brigade of Investigation to […]
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On February 8, 2013, Exame reported that the Women’s Rights Division in Brazil, through the federal Ligue 180 (Dial 1-8-0) Campaign, registered some 58 accusations of trafficking between February 3 and February 7. This number nearly matches the entire total from last year. All of the reports are passed on to the Polícia Federal, where […]
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On February 7, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the number of phone calls received by the federal Dial 1-0-0 campaign in Brazil rose 58.3% in 2012. According to the Ministry of Human Rights in Brasília, the department received 130,000 complaints last year, as opposed to around 82,000 the year before. The head […]
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On February 7, 2013, Tribuna Hoje reported that Melissa Freitas, dancer and winner of the second annual Gay Carnaval Princess award, was attacked and beaten by two men in Rio de Janeiro after leaving a session at a local samba school. Freitas was beaten and thrown from a footbridge by two men, whose motive to […]
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oday we presented the results of the fourth survey on drug use in students 12 to 17 years. The consultation was conducted by the National Control Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances ( Consep ). The data showed that the average age of onset of drug use rose to 14.3 years compared to previous studies. Other data […]
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On February 6, 2013, NE10 reported that a man from Rio Grande do Norte will face charges after he photographed his own son, 16 years of age, having sex with a 12 year-old girl. Joelito Pedro da Silva, 41, of Nova Cruz (90 kilometers from Natal), was arrested by local police after the son sent […]
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On February 6, 2013, O Dia reported that the Vice-Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, together with the head of the Human Rights Department of the federal government, is launching a campaign in time for Rio’s annual Carnaval celebration targeted at speaking up against sexual exploitation of minors and adolescents. The ceremony will feature various artistic […]
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The Child and Adolescent Police carried out an operation to catch people using minors to the drug trade. In the operation, were found three kilos of cocaine were seized.
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Choloma, San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa and Villanueva are the most dangerous cities for young people of Honduras. Most crimes were committed with a firearm. Read Article
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On January 28, 2013, the Brazilian sociologist Sergio Abranches produced an opinion piece that addressed the tragedy in the nightclub in Santa Maria that killed 237 people. In the article he wrote that we already knew such events were going to happen, and that we can only blame ourselves for the tragedy’s magnitude. We already […]
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On February 2, 2013, Alagoas 24 Hours Reported that Federal Police have managed to arrest and disband members of two prominent gangs involved in the trafficking of women between Brazil and Spain. These actions have led to the rescue of no less than 40 women over a seven-month period. The statistics also come as part […]
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Major Areas of Disappearances Bogota, Valle del Cauca, Antioquia, Tolima According to caracol.com.co, the Director of Legal Medicine lamented that minors also are part of the missing records, and found that most occur in young people between 14 and 17 years. According Legal Medicine, this year 634 people have been reported missing and 316 women. […]
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dw.de reported that Colombia’s economy has improved over the past two decades, but the new middle class has only profited to a limited extent. Their social and economic situation is insecure. Colombia’s middle class is growing. The World Bank estimates that the percentage of Colombians who count themselves middle class has risen to 28 from […]
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On January 31, 2013, the National Electoral Council issued a new campaign resolution. Presidential candidates are prohibited from making homophobic comments prior to the election in February 2013. If such comments are made by candidates, penalties may be enacted. The declaration indicated that candidates must abstain from making homophobic comments during the campaign which could […]
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On January 31, 2013, G1 reported that one of Brazil’s major social surveys, the IBGE, has produced economic statistics from 2012. According to the data, women earned on average roughly 72.7% of what men earned monthly during the calendar year. The survey was conducted by visiting 45,000 residences in six different major municipalities. Additionally, darker-skinned […]
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To prevent children from physical attacks by fellow prejudices about their nationality, the Foreign Ministry has decided to launch a campaign that started yesterday, called all are equal, which seeks to eliminate xenophobia in Cuenca. Read Article
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On January 30, 2013, the Brazilian Federal Police announced that it will start a new international operation with Spain’s National Police aimed at combating human trafficking. Nicknamed Operação Planeta (Operation Planet), the operation is aimed at stopping the sex trade between Brazil and Spain, primarily in the business of trafficking Brazilian girls to Spanish clients. […]
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Elpais.com reports: “There is no curfew, but after nine at night, Torreón is a ghost town,” says Professor Robert Lopez Franco, former director of the School of Social and Political Sciences , alarmed by the breakdown of the social fabric. “Our youth is being annihilated by poverty, drugs and weapons,” he adds. The feeling of […]
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Esmas.com reported that in a year an average smoker in Mexico spends about four thousand 800 pesos in cigarettes, which not only result in a waste of money, but in a real health risk, revealed the Federal (CJF) He stressed that the country’s 7.1 million addicted to snuff and six is the number of cigarettes […]
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Some 14 of 17 schools visited in the districts of Matapalo and Papayal Tumbes, on the border with Ecuador, the doors were closed and no information about the start of the registration process, informed the Ombudsman. Chiroque Abel, head of the Advocacy Office at Tumbes, said prioritized monitoring remote areas in order to ensure the […]
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Ciudad Juarez start breathing after hold for three consecutive years the sad title of being the most dangerous city in the world, and remain in second place in 2011, virtually tied with San Pedro Sula Honduras. Killings, femicide, kidnapping, rape and extortion have built the terrible image of this border city, and numerous works have […]
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On January 27, 2013, G1 reported that the state of Maranhão has reported 6,505 cases of AIDS since 1985, with two-thirds of the cases being male, the other third female. The same study also reported that the majority of the cases happened in the age group 25-49. Statistics from the State Health Department showed that […]
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On January 26, 2013, NE10 reported that a farmer is accused in the small town of Palmares of sexually abusing a nine-year old girl as she went to play with friends. Palmares is located about 125 kilometers southwest of Recife, the capital of the state. The young girl managed to escape, and found police within […]
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Angel Dust (PCP) This is a highly addictive drug that is consumed in nightclubs and at private schools for young middle and upper classes. Its main feature is that its use leads to violence. According to peru21.pe, There are so many young people partying without a dose of violence can trigger up to street clashes. […]
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On January 24, 2013, O Estado de São Paulo reported that the federal government, led by cabinet minister Maria do Rosário, established on Monday the National Committee on Religious Diversity. This move comes in commemoration of the Day to Combat Religious Intolerance, which is observed on the same day. The number of accusations of religious […]
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On January 24, 2013, R7 reported that an international appeal started by Ronald Munk and Priscilla Celeste has gained worldwide attention through Forbes Magazine and Facebook. The couple alleges that their adopted son, who is black, was asked to leave a BMW dealership in Rio de Janeiro while the couple was looking at cars. Priscilla […]
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On January 22, 2013, Conexão Tocantins reported that federal prosecutors in the Brazilian state of Tocantins are seeking the convictions of a group of individuals suspected to be involved in a human trafficking ring sending young women to Spain. The ring operated in the city of Gurupi. The investigation focuses on four groups involved in […]
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On January 23, 2013, O Globo reported that close to 100 people threatened with eviction in the Milton Santos Settlement in Americana, São Paulo state, occupied the Lula Institute in the capital’s South Zone. Four supporters of the occupation have also declared a hunger strike. The protesters seek immediate action from Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff […]
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691,000 Ecuadorians, according to the 2010 census, have a native language as their mother tongue, of which 591,448 are kichwahablantes. The speakers have less, 323, is the Andoa (spoken in the subwatershed Bobonaza and Pastaza river middle basin, border with Peru), followed Zápara: 367. The latter is in a critical situation, but not very different […]
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According to actualidad.rt.com, The Chamber of Deputies of Bolivia seeks to stop sexual violence in the country, for which it has submitted a bill that punishes with chemical castration to all abusers. “Every day there are reports of violations. The draft law against violence against women arises castration chemistry. The law has to be tough […]
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On January 20, 2013, Eco de Notícias reported that a four-year old child was captured, sexually assaulted and killed in Xapuri, a small town about 180 kilometers from Rio Branco, the capital of Acre. The suspect, Jaisson Moreira Moura, was apprehended minutes after the body was found in his home. Moura reportedly was friends with […]
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On January 21, 2013, 24 Horas News reported a rise in missing persons in Cuiabá, the capital of Mato Grosso, in 2012. Local police counted 785 reports of individuals of all ages disappearing, 33% more than in 2011 (590). Investigator Lauriane Cristina de Oliveira attributes the numbers to more teenagers running away from home, as […]
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The study by The Economist, which includes 80 countries, is part of a survey to determine the best and worst places in the world to be born. Chile (23 °), Costa Rica (30th) and Brazil (37th) were the best nations to be born in the region. Ecuador, Dominican Republic and El Salvador were constituted in […]
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ibtimes.co.uk reported…..Drugs are not just sold around schools but within them. According to one head teacher, students find any number of ways to smuggle them in – hidden in pens, in the folds of their uniform or in the pages of their notebooks. “Drugs are present in schools, just like theft and violence, because they […]
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ElPais.com – Briceño studying violence since 1994, five years before Chavez came to power. “The homicide rate was then 20 per 100,000 inhabitants. And you were worried. In 1998 there were 4,500 violent deaths. In 2000 almost came twice. In 2003, when Chávez served four years in power, the killings amounted to 11,300, the rate […]
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Not long ago, quinoa was just an obscure Peruvian grain you could only buy in wholefood shops. We struggled to pronounce it (it’s keen-wa, not qui-no-a), yet it was feted by food lovers as a novel addition to the familiar ranks of couscous and rice. Dieticians clucked over quinoa approvingly because it ticked the low-fat […]
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Over 8000 500 people remain in one of the poorest municipalities in the country. It is for fourth in misery, says the declaration of the priority areas in the year 2011, 14th place, according to statistics from INEGI. There is no work, subsistence crops are depleted, the daily diet can become an instant soup or […]
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A total of 4697 Colombian girls under 14 were mothers in the first nine months of 2012, according to official statistics, which according to the director of the Instituto Colombiano of Family Welfare (ICBF), Diego Molano, is a “serious problem” in the country. Molano reported today that teen pregnancies and tweens are “a problem that […]
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On January 16, 2013, NE10 reported that TV Jornal conducted an interview with Isac Bento Campelo, 30, accused with his wife, Ana Carla Domingos Gomes, 28, of sexually abusing four adolescent churchgoers between the ages of 12 and 17. In the interview Campelo dismissed the accusations of some of the families, but did admit to […]
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The economist.com reported that the fall of the “father of all Paraguayans” was even more abrupt than his rise. In 2008 Fernando Lugo, a Catholic bishop and liberation theologian who called himself a champion of the poor, won his country’s presidential election and broke the Colorado Party’s chokehold on power. Shortly after his inauguration, however, […]
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On January 11, 2013, Lainfomacion.com reported that the number of homosexuals murdered in Brazil tripled from 122 deaths in 2007 to 336 in 2012. These numbers come from a study done by Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB), using data from various levels of police. The report also notes that the rate increased 26% from 2011. […]
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The numbers of rape in Santa Cruz increased by 27%, ie, there were 141 new cases. According to figures provided by Maria Rosa Valencia, director of the Defense of Children and Adolescents of the Mayor, the Special Victims Unit (SVU) in 2011 there have been 1014 cases, of which 525 correspond to sexual violence, especially […]
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IPSNEWS.NET reported there are 429 prisons in Mexico, according to the latest report by the ministry of federal public security. Of that total, 15 are run by the national government, 10 by the authorities in Mexico City’s Federal District, 91 by municipal governments, and the rest by the states. Studies indicate that the prison population […]
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Unmarried women report say “of” “de” man makes a woman creates own Married dislike not say much and machismo “is nothing” Another proposal for the reform of the Civil Registration Act is repealed Article 82, which refers to the use, for married women, the husband’s surname preceded by the preposition “of”, and that “violates the […]
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Reurters reported that Foreign residents in Argentina can change sexual identity in the DNI Foreigners residing in Argentina sexual identity can change their identity in the South American country, as the Argentines could do, according to a resolution published today in the Official Gazette. The Gender Identity Act, adopted last May by the Argentine Congress, […]
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One of the complaints ofter heard about Ecuador, is the high rate of corruption among government employees and law enforcement. The following examples demonstrate that the pernicious act of corrupt activity reaches many levels of society in Ecuador, even when it comes to visiting a patient in a hospital. This information was provided by roving […]
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Some 12,000 people, mostly from Colombia, sought refuge in Ecuador in 2012, the Latin American country most foreigners in need of protection in their home territory, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador. About 56,000 immigrants living with refugee status in Ecuador, which in the last decade has received about 162,000 applications for […]
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Although there are no official numbers of violent deaths, an NGO argues that the rate is 73 deaths per 100 000 inhabitants. Venezuela recorded more than 21,000 murders in 2012 due to “a general increase” in crime in the country, which is among the most violent in Latin America, said Thursday the organization Venezuelan Observatory […]
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There is a growing trend in crime rates and arrests of youth in the world (United Nations 2003) makes this issue one of great importance to national and international policy. Colombia is no exception unfortunately. In fact, it is believed that new criminal gangs are increasingly involved young children to carry out many of their […]
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In four years, a number of thirty thousand denunciations concerning human rights violations were issued to the Attorney General’s Office; nevertheless, only 7% of it was heard by a judge and just 4% eventually got a sentence.Everyday, eleven citizens who live in the Metropolitan area of the capital city will not be lucky enough to […]
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Mexico’s Attorney General has compiled a list showing that more than 25,000 adults and children have gone missing in Mexico in the past six years, according to unpublished government documents. The data sets, submitted by state prosecutors and vetted by the federal government but never released to the public, chronicle the disappearance of tens of […]
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The number of black homicide victims in Brazil grew by 29.8 percent between 2002 and 2010, to nearly 35,000, while murders of whites declined 25.5 percent to just over 14,000, the Presidential Bureau to Promote Racial Equality said Thursday. Read Article
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Coffee and cocoa represent the main sources of income for small farmers in the Northern Amazon Region of Ecuador. The provinces of Orellana and Sucumbios, as border areas, have benefited from investments made by many public and private institutions. Many of the projects carried out in the area have been aimed at energising the production […]
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This research investigates the principal factors that influence youth sexuality, exploring the multi-faceted forces that shape young people’s sexual knowledge, attitudes, and practices. Seeking to shed light on the diverse social, cultural, and structural forces that contribute to youth sexual risk-taking, I conducted a quantitative study of 1686 high school students between the ages of […]
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Was reduced by 50 percent the complaints in the State Commission of Human Rights (ECHR) against the 21st Military Zone, said Jose Maria Cazares. A few days after the conclusion of the administration of President Felipe Calderón, the leader of the ECHR noted that because of the work that was done through lectures and training […]
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The Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA) has just released the results of a survey commissioned by Datafolha on indigenous peoples. The survey was done with a universe of 1,222 interviews in 32 villages with over 100 inhabitants, covering 20 ethnic groups who speak Portuguese. The idea was to provide a comprehensive profile […]
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Psychologist Rita del Carmen was responsible for one of the steps to follow. Your job is to try to prevent young people as falling into the net Chamboy Los Zetas, taking advantage of their poverty and lack of opportunity. Many are often killed when they refuse to work for the cartel. “Many young people under […]
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Roberta Jacobson discusses relations with the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs says that the U.S. is concerned about the situation of the press in Ecuador.’The situation of the press in Ecuador we are deeply concerned. We have to say it is one of the most difficult cases for freelancers. We have […]
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The Council of Canadians is issuing a statement of solidarity as hundreds of protestors gather in front of the Canadian embassy in Mexico City (1 p.m. EST) to express their outrage at the growing death toll of community activists opposing Canadian mining in Mexico. Most recently, in the state of Chihuahua, a married couple who […]
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Her call for free education in Chile led to a nationwide shutdown last year. Now student leader Camila Vallejo is aiming higher – she wants a social revolution…..I almost didn’t meet Camila Vallejo. She missed her flight from Chile, and by the time the allotted hour arrived, she was still 7,000 miles away in Santiago. […]
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Chaotic and scattered on a plateau of the Andes, the Bolivian city of El Alto is known for altitude sickness, poverty and the overthrow of governments, an overwhelming reputation that frightens many businesses. But years of relative stability and economic growth are changing both attitudes and access to wealth in one of the poorest countries […]
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Jamaica’s public transport authorities have banned lay preachers from addressing commuters in public buses. Jamaica is a predominantly Christian country, but many passengers have complained about the noise and disturbance. Read Article
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The City Council of the City of Capital today approved an ordinance that prohibits both competency as the operation of establishments where prostitution is exercised, so that no alternate premises will enable new and existing will have 30 days to cease definitely their activities in the town, once the rule takes effect. This standard, unprecedented […]
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