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  »  Where Law Enforcement Goes Bad
     There is a ?deficit of justice? in Brazil, where the police themselves sometimes join the ranks of organised crime, in the form of militias, according to Amnesty International. In the past few years, significant advances have been made in Brazil in terms of ensuring basic rights, but there are still problems in many areas, Atila [...]
  »  Insects, from Delicacy to Tool against Hunger
     The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s recommendation to consider using edible insects as a food source to combat hunger may have particular repercussions in Colombia and Mexico, two Latin American countries that have a tradition of eating insects and a high degree of biodiversity. Mexico has 300 edible insect species, according to a study published in [...]
  »  Cuban Agriculture Needs Young People
     When Gabriela Blanco tells other Cubans that she works in an organic vegetable cooperative and is getting ready to study agronomy at the university, she gets surprised looks. She is not sure where her vocation came from, but she does know that this is what she wants to do. In Cuba, which is seeking to [...]
  »  Chilean Development Still Tied to Copper Mining
     Chile’s position as the world’s top producer of copper is not under threat, but the country faces the challenge of transforming its copper mining industry into social capital for the long term, and addressing high energy costs, which have grown seven-fold over the last decade, experts told IPS. “The country’s comparative advantages, in contrast to [...]
  »  Organic Cooperative Proves that Agriculture Can Prosper in Cuba
     Continuous upgrading and a ?vocation? for farming are two keys to the success of a cooperative that could serve as a model for boosting agriculture in Cuba.
  »  Indigenous Brazilians Learn to Fight for the Right to Food
     The lack of prospects for Ticuna and Kokama indigenous youth in the far northwest of Brazil led to high rates of alcoholism and suicide.
  »  Seeking Justice for Dictatorship Victims ? Two Continents Apart
     As news of the death of former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla in a prison cell spread around the world, Julia Parodi, who was in this South Korean city to receive the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights on behalf of HIJOS, said he died in the right place. HIJOS, the acronym for ?Sons and Daughters [...]
  »  Caribbean Farming Gets Its Roots Wet
     As Caribbean communities grapple with the entwined challenges of climate change and food security, modern technologies offer hope that the region’s stagnating agricultural sector can be made more profitable. For the past six years, the University of Central Florida (UCF) has teamed up with the St. Kitts-based Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (CFBC) to implement a [...]
  »  Small and Large Steps towards Equality for Gays in Cuba
     The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in Cuba has won advances on issues like the change of name of pre-operative transgender persons, while they continue to fight for the right to same-sex civil unions. For the first time since 1997, a transsexual woman who had not undergone sex-change surgery was issued a photo ID [...]
  »  Brazil Lagging in Fight against Human Trafficking
     In contravention of international law, in Brazil trafficking in human beings remains invisible and unpunished, which encourages the practice of trafficking for sexual exploitation, forced labour, illegal adoption and the trade in human organs, according to experts. Local laws punish drug trafficking more severely than human trafficking. The sale of drugs carries penalties of between [...]