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» The OneWorld Mexico Country Guide
The aim of this Guide is to provide a brief introduction to human rights and sustainable development issues in Mexico
Protesting the rising cost of tortillas (made from corn) in Mexico.
08.05.2008 The global food crisis is unraveling economic advances made in recent years by large sections of the poor working classes of Latin America, reports a U.S.-based ethnic media organization.
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From: New America Media
Related topics/regions: [Brazil]
Image: Protesting the rising cost of tortillas (made from corn) in Mexico. © Prometeo Lucero [aka Prom] (flickr)
A Mexican farmer protests the rising cost of tortillas (made of corn).
08.05.2008 Innovative local initiatives are strengthening rural regions throughout Mexico, which have been losing both people and their competitive edge in agriculture since Mexico opened its markets to free trade.
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From: Global Exchange
Image: A Mexican farmer protests the rising cost of tortillas (made of corn). © Prometeo Lucero [aka Prom] (flickr)
Learning organic farming in Coahuila, Mexico.
07.05.2008 Jesus León Santos, the leader of a democratic farmer-to-farmer network, recently received a prestigious environmental award for promoting sustainability through traditional agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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From: Grassroots International
Image: Learning organic farming in Coahuila, Mexico. © Harry Mostaza (flickr)
Malaria sign, Kenya.
29.04.2008 In the wake of World Malaria Day, an anti-pesticide advocacy organization discusses the danger of spraying DDT to kill mosquitoes carrying the disease and promotes malaria prevention alternatives.
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From: Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
Image: Malaria sign, Kenya. © Peter Armstrong
U.S. President Bush and Mexican President Calderon shake hands at an Aug. 2007 summit.
24.04.2008 This week's closed-door meeting of leaders from Canada, Mexico, and the United States is likely to produce changes that "will favor narrow corporate interests over the public good," write trade analysts Sarah Anderson and Manuel Pérez Rocha.
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From: Institute of Policy Studies
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Canada]
Image: U.S. President Bush and Mexican President Calderon shake hands at an Aug. 2007 summit. © Eric Draper - White House
With nearly 40 million immigrants, U.S. global remittances exceed $300 billion per year.
11.04.2008 The recent economic downturn in the United States is causing a dramatic decrease in remittances -- the amount of money migrant workers send home to support their families.
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From: New America Media
Related topics/regions: [India] [United States]
Image: With nearly 40 million immigrants, U.S. global remittances exceed $300 billion per year. © American Friends Service Committee
11.04.2008 The world's leading mobile telephone producer Nokia admitted that "the union leaders" at Nokia's plant in Reynosa in Mexico are appointed by the company itself. Thus the principle of free organising of labour, approved by Nokia in its code of conduct, does not materialise in practise at its very own plant.
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From: Trade Union News from Finland
Related topics/regions: [Corporations] [Labour]
09.04.2008 Meksikolaisen työelämän tutkimuslaitoksen CILASin tutkimusraportti moittii Nokiaa omien eettisten sääntöjensä rikkomisesta Reynosan-tehtaalla.
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From: Suomen Ammattiliittojen Solidaarisuuskeskus
Related topics/regions: [Corporations]
Environmentally friendly construction reduces carbon emissions, on average, by 35 percent, say experts.
27.03.2008 North American environmental leaders recently issued a report calling for a greater commitment to green buildings in the region, where commercial and residential structures currently consume an average of 30 percent of total energy needs.
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From: Worldwatch Institute
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Canada]
Image: Environmentally friendly construction reduces carbon emissions, on average, by 35 percent, say experts. © Center for Rural Strategies
25.03.2008 Despite the government's military measures, Mexican drug violence is gaining force -- much thanks to the cartels' 'imported' North American firepower, which now rivals even that of the regular Mexican army, writes Bill Weinberg.
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From: North American Congress on Latin America
Related topics/regions: [United States]
Image: © barjack (flickr)
18.03.2008 Ihmisoikeusjärjestön mukaan yli 4 000 ihmistä on kuollut viimeisen 12 vuoden aikana pyrkiessään Meksikon ja Yhdysvaltain välisen rajan yli.
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From: OneWorld Spain
Related topics/regions: [Central America] [United States] [Migration] [Human rights]
12.02.2008 Meksikon jalkineteollisuus elää pelonsekaisissa tunnelmissa, kun sitä kiinalaiselta tuotannolta suojannut tullisopimus raukesi vuoden vaihtuessa.
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From: Trade Union News from Finland
Related topics/regions: [Labour] [Trade]
Image: © Peter Armstrong
30.01.2008 Vuoden 2007 alusta lähtien Meksikon hallitus on kiihdyttänyt toimiaan Chiapasin maakunnan itsehallintoa tavoittelevia zapatistiyhteisöjä kohtaan. Hyökkäykset, uhkaukset ja maiden ryöstö kuuluvat hallituksen tukemien puolisotilaallisten joukkojen keinovalikoimaan.
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From: OneWorld US
Related topics/regions: [Indigenous rights] [Conflict]
Zapatista activists, 2006.
28.01.2008 Since early 2007, dozens of the autonomous, indigenous Zapatista communities in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas have endured near-daily attacks, land invasions, and death threats, primarily from government-endorsed paramilitary groups.
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From: In These Times
Image: Zapatista activists, 2006. © Independent Media Center
Comandante Ramona
23.01.2008 Chiapasin kansannousun myötä intiaaninaiset ovat löytäneet äänensä ja paikkansa liikkeessä ja intiaaniyhteisössä.
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From: OneWorld Spain
Related topics/regions: [Gender] [Indigenous rights]
Image: Comandante Ramona
21.01.2008 Sosiaalifoorumin agendalla ovat vahvasti Väli- ja Etelä-Amerikan maiden solmimat vapaakauppasopimukset. Foorumiin liittyen järjestetään 26. tammikuuta maailmanlaajuinen toimintapäivä.
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From: UnMundo América Latina
Related topics/regions: [Civil society] [Globalisation]
16.01.2008 This March, Mexico will introduce immigration cards digitally embedded with migrants' information, a 'characteristically progressive' move that will allow hundreds of thousands of temporary workers and visitors to come and go at their will, writes Louis E. V. Nevaer.
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From: New America Media
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02.01.2008 Viimeisetkin rajoitukset Meksikon ja Yhdysvaltain väliseltä maataloustuotteiden kaupalta poistuivat vuodenvaihteessa. Kaupan vapautuminen hirvittää Meksikon pienviljelijöitä. Heidän mielestään epäsuhta on kohtuuton.
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From: Suomen IPS
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Agriculture] [Trade]
Image: - © freg
05.12.2007 After a hard fought battle filled with intimidation and retaliation from management, Mexican workers at a factory that produces name brand garments for the U.S. market have won legitimate union representation.
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From: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Meksikon ja Yhdysvaltojen välinen raja-aita.
20.11.2007 Arizonan osavaltio on takavarikoinut meksikolaissiirtolaisten kotiinsa lähettämiä varoja 14 miljoonan dollarin verran. Viranomaiset väittävät rahojen menevän ihmissalakuljettajille, vaikka tutkimuksia yksittäisten lähetysten kohteista ei ole tehty.
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From: UnMundo América Latina
Related topics/regions: [United States] [Migration]
Image: Meksikon ja Yhdysvaltojen välinen raja-aita. © Independent Media Center
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