Un contrato de 50 millones de dólares para promover al equipo Thunderbirds de acrobacia aérea fue manchado por influencia indebida y trato preferencial, encontró una investigación del Pentágono.Un contrato de 50 millones de dólares para promover al equipo Thunderbirds de acrobacia aérea fue manchado por influencia indebida y trato preferencial, encontró una investigación del Pentágono.

Con la ratificación en el Senado de EE.UU. del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) suscrito con Perú, ese país andino entra en el grupo de socios comerciales preferenciales de la mayor economía del mundo, un camino que todavía transitan otras naciones latinoamericanas.Estados Unidos tiene un TLC con México, que forma parte del Tratado de Libre Comercio de Norteamérica (NAFTA, sigla en inglés), con Chile y con los países centroamericanos y República Dominicana, firmantes del acuerdo denominado CAFTA-DR.A continuación, una relación de los acuerdos comerciales, vigentes o pendientes de ratificación, que EE.UU. tiene con los países latinoamericanos, iniciativas que no seducen a toda la región:- México.Con la ratificación en el Senado de EE.UU. del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) suscrito con Perú, ese país andino entra en el grupo de socios comerciales preferenciales de la mayor economía del mundo, un camino que todavía transitan otras naciones latinoamericanas.Estados Unidos tiene un TLC con México, que forma parte del Tratado de Libre Comercio de Norteamérica (NAFTA, sigla en inglés), con Chile y con los países centroamericanos y República Dominicana, firmantes del acuerdo denominado CAFTA-DR.A continuación, una relación de los acuerdos comerciales, vigentes o pendientes de ratificación, que EE.UU. tiene con los países latinoamericanos, iniciativas que no seducen a toda la región:- México.

Shirley es una muchacha israelí de 18 años que vive en un barrio ultraortodoxo judío de Jerusalén. Pese al asfixiante calor que acompaña a agosto en las montañas de Judea, lleva siempre falda larga.  Leer

MÉXICO, 28 ago (IPS) - Si al finalizar la primera semana de septiembre el gobierno de México no atiende las demandas de mujeres indígenas del sureño estado de Oaxaca, 10.000 de ellas viajarán a la capital del país para presionar directamente al presidente Felipe Calderón. "Ya estamos hartas", señaló una de sus líderes.

HARARE, Aug 30 (IPS) - In 2006, there was shared concern among donors and women’s organisations over the fragmented approaches to gender and women’s empowerment programmes in Zimbabwe.

MEXICO CITY, Aug 29 (IPS) - If the Mexican government has not addressed the demands of indigenous women in the southern state of Oaxaca by the end of the first week of September, 10,000 native women will travel to the capital to directly pressure President Felipe Calderón. "We are fed up," said one of the leading activists.

ROME, Aug 28 (IPS) - Ines Alberdi has worked for over 25 years on gender issues and in politics.

KOULARA, Sri Lanka, Aug 28 (IPS) - An impoverished village in southern Sri Lanka is slowly pulling out of poverty by churning out terra cotta moulds of animal footprints for tea connoisseurs all over the world.

MEXICO CITY, Aug 27 (IPS) - The Mexican government, Catholic Church and conservative groups lost a crucial battle Wednesday in their fight against abortion, which was legalised in the capital in April 2007.

WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (IPS) - From the party platform ratified by delegates between speeches Monday, to primetime, headlining speeches by two heavy hitters in the election -- Sen. Hillary Clinton and first-lady hopeful Michelle Obama -- the initial two days of the Democratic National Convention were dominated by women.

MBABANE, Aug 27 (IPS) - Hard on the heels of the signing of the Gender Protocol at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state summit, Swazi women have challenged King Mswati III on the monarchy's lavish lifestyle in the face of abject poverty and disease.

FREETOWN, Aug 27 (IPS) - A barefoot girl watches expressionless as men clad in expensive suits and women in designer clothes make their way on foot to the Community Centre in Kroo Bay, Freetown. They are here to launch the first ever State of Human Rights Report for Sierra Leone; Zainab, 12, is in the midst of another day on the narrow, muddy streets of the area, selling groundnuts to help support her family.

SINGAPORE, Aug 27 (IPS) - After failing to induce young people to marry early and raise families with tax breaks and ‘baby bonus’ schemes, the government appears ready to fall back on the matchmaker to give the stork a chance.

BANGKOK, Aug 26 (IPS) - Nyo Ohn Myint still remembers the moment, 20 years ago, when the legend of Aung San Suu Kyi began. He was there when she gave a stirring speech and became the symbol of hope for a country under the oppressive grip of military rule since 1962.

MELBOURNE, Aug 25 (IPS) - A new collaborative approach among Australian government, police and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is being developed to tackle the scourge of human trafficking.

HARARE, Aug 23 (IPS) - In a highly contested election marred by violence and held under very difficult economic conditions, Zimbabwean women politicians defied the odds to participate as candidates in the March 29th elections.

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 18 (IPS) - Gender activists breathed a sigh of relief when a long-delayed gender protocol was signed at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit this weekend. Women bear the brunt of social injustice and problems on the African continent, ranging from access to clean water, poor health care, access to economic opportunities or adequate protection before the law.

PHNOM PENH, Aug 14 (IPS) - ‘Women are cloth, men are gold’. This traditional Khmer saying is quoted by many studies on gender in Cambodia as emblematic of the different value accorded to men and women in this country of 14 million.

LUANDA, Aug 13 (IPS) - Nearly a third of candidates in Angola's upcoming parliamentary elections are female, thanks to a new quota imposed by the government. The 30 percent rule was designed to bring more women into the country's parliament, but as campaigning gets under way, women continue to stay in Angola's political shadows, barely visible at rallies and with few holding senior party positions.