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Archive for the 'NGOs & Organizations' Category
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Members of the Conisur march in favor of an Amazonian highway have flown home in three flights provided by the Bolivian air force. Secretary of the San Ignacio de Moxos Regional Workers Center (COR), Walter Colque, said that he was satisfied that the government had listened to their demands and announced that they were flying [...]
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Monday, July 25th, 2011
The president of the Inter-American Development Bank, Luis Alberto Moreno, will visit Bolivia for two days starting tomorrow. In addition to promoting his new book, The Latin American Decade: A Real Opportunity, Moreno will meet with Bolivian President Evo Morales to discuss a cooperation agreement, among other subjects, such as a credit line for the [...]
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Monday, March 14th, 2011
This Wednesday the Movement to Socialism senators and legislators will debate whether to expell the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). MAS senator Fidel Surco said, ¨There will be an analysis and evaluation to see whether it´s correct to expell USAID. US-Aid keeps operating in our country against the government and against certain sectors [...]
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Saturday, March 12th, 2011
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of the United Nations “deplores racial hate speech and discriminatory acts … and the spread of media organizations and journalists who disseminate racist stereotypes and hate speech against persons from indigenous nations, campesinos, and Afro-Bolivians,” according to a new resolution published at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva. [...]
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Bolivia has seen increasing intense rains cause significant damage in both Amazonian and Altiplano regions in the past several weeks. Landslides in La Paz and intense…
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
 In Bolivia, short distances often go a long way. The 166 kilometer (100 mile) trip from Cocabamba to Villa Tunari is a worthy example, descending 8,000 feet
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Posted in Environment, NGOs & Organizations, Travel & Tourism | 2 Comments »
Monday, June 28th, 2010
In a country in which homosexuality is legal but generally frowned upon, people from La Paz and El Alto came out in support of LGBT members of their communities…
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
The Institute for Democratic Thought is a Bolivian group dedicated to discussing and advancing the values of democracy and democratic leadership within the country.
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Friday, March 19th, 2010
The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues of the United Nations expressed concern today over the practice of servitude that exists in the community of Alto Parapetí in Santa Cruz…
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
The Rainbow Foundation (Fundacion Arco Iris) is a Catholic NGO based in La Paz that fights against the discrimination, marginalization and lack of opportunity that thousands of young people suffer.
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