Resources - Policy Statements
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Surprisingly, part of Chavez's oil-based financial windfall comes from the U.S. Navy. Its "Navy Exchange (NEX) Service Command" has a contract, running until 2010, which specifies that Citgo supply gasoline to all NEX service stationsEnglish
Country(s):
Venezuela
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Friday, March 14, 2008
Non-ideological policy rethinking is urgently required on key aspects of supply reductionEnglish
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Friday, March 14, 2008
This report analyses policies and their political and social ramifications and presents policy recommendationsEnglish
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Friday, March 14, 2008
En las ultimas semanas varios asesinatos de lideres de base y comunales han sido puestos en conocimiento de la Oficina, poniendo en evidencia los riesgos, para sus vidas e integridadSpanish
Country(s):
Colombia
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Trade agreements should support, rather than undermine, environmental protection, human rights and labor standardsEnglish
Country(s):
Colombia
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
En esta ocasion, se relatan los distintos puntos de vista expuestos en la mesa de debate:
La Iniciativa Merida: seguridad, soberania y migracion en la relacion Mexico-
Estados Unidos.Spanish
Country(s):
Mexico
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
I am writing to share some observations regarding the justice reform package that was approved by the Mexican Congress todayEnglish
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Mexico
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
In the end, the case for the Colombia trade agreement isn’t just economic and geopolitical, it’s logical and moralEnglish
Country(s):
Colombia
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Sunday, March 2, 2008
Following the latest release of four hostages held by the FARC in Colombia, Maria Dos Anjos Gussing, the ICRC's head of operations for Latin America and the Caribbean, talks about the organization's role in the recent operationEnglish
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Colombia
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Sunday, March 2, 2008
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has distributed food supplies to over 3,000 people – around 800 families – living in 21 settlements near the town of Samaniego in Narino department, ColombiaEnglish
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Colombia
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Saturday, March 1, 2008
La creacion de la Comision Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (en adelante
la cndh o la Comision) constituyo una de las mas trascendentes reformas institucionales en la busqueda de la consolidacion democratica de
Mexico.Spanish
Country(s):
Mexico
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Friday, February 29, 2008
The U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement is considered a non-starter in the U.S. Congress because the country is the world's deadliest for union activists. Less known, but equally disturbing, is the systematic violence now confronting Afro-ColombiansEnglish
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Colombia
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Friday, February 29, 2008
Intensive aerial herbicide spraying of coca crops in Colombia has backfired badly, contributing to the spread of coca cultivation and cocaine production to new areas of the country and threatening human health and the environmentEnglish
Country(s):
Colombia
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
A pesar de que el gobernador de Antioquia de ese entonces, Alvaro Uribe, y el comandante de la Cuarta Brigada, general Carlos Alberto Ospina, dijeron que el jurista mentia, la historia le ha dado la razonSpanish
Country(s):
Colombia
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Instead of merely a law enforcement issue, organized crime has become in some countries a fundamental threat to democracy, the rule of law and human rightsEnglish
Country(s):
Colombia
El Salvador
Guatemala
Peru
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Monday, February 25, 2008
Country(s):
Colombia
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Friday, February 22, 2008
Seven journalists were killed in the Americas in 2007 for doing their job, compared with 16 the previous yearEnglish
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Members of Congress who oppose the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA) are hurting the very people they claim to be protectingEnglish
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Colombia
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
The United States will have only one chance to lift the embargo. Once lifted, it will be almost impossible to reimposeEnglish
Country(s):
Cuba
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Fidel Castro's leaving office on his own terms is not the kind of change that successive American presidents have envisioned for Cuba. In fact, it's a sign that U.S. efforts to isolate that country and bring down its socialist government have failedEnglish
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Cuba
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