NGOs and Academia
Friday, August 9, 2013 - 00:00
As a pioneer, Uruguay will need to brave the political pressures from governments that want to intimidate and isolate Uruguay for daring to go first in challenging the orthodoxy.
Friday, August 9, 2013 - 00:00
The area under coca crop cultivation in Colombia fell by a quarter in 2012 to 48,000 hectares (ha), down from 6 4,000 ha in 2011.
Thursday, August 8, 2013 - 00:00
If the Honduran government is seeking international support, it needs to establish its credibility by carrying out systematic investigations of police corruption and criminality.
Thursday, August 8, 2013 - 00:00
El mejor reconocimiento al Centro de Memoria Historica por este documentado estudio es que sus atinadas recomendaciones esta vez no sean aplazadas.
Thursday, August 8, 2013 - 00:00
Brazil is home to one of the most powerful land reform movements in the world. Its work has both changed the lives and fates of millions of people within the country, and inspired land and housing struggles everywhere.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 00:00
"It is imperative that Brazil takes concrete steps to improve the state of human rights in the country".
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 00:00
"The prison system in Honduras is dehumanized, miserly, and corrupt. Living conditions in the prisons are completely contrary to human dignity," said Rapporteur Escobar Gil.
Monday, August 5, 2013 - 06:49
In the case of the Russian Far East, the Chinese economy’s vitality and Moscow’s actual neglect of the Far East, could lead in the long run to the attachment of the Russian Far East to China, even, possibly without direct Chinese involvement.
Monday, August 5, 2013 - 06:43
The scale and level of China’s economic (and increasingly, military) power argues for some redirection of overseas funding priorities. and the Russian Far East certainly should be the beneficiary of such a shift, for the reasons cited above.
Monday, August 5, 2013 - 06:31
Eurasia in ten years -- by 2023 -- is on a trajectory toward Chinese preeminence, and China is now being helped along that trajectory by a strategic alignment with the Russian Federation.