It’s a beautiful world…
During four days from April 19 to 22 in Cochabamba, Bolivia, intellectuals, political and showbiz personalities will join associations and local representatives in a People World Conference about climate changes and “Mother Earth” rights.
The Conference purpose is to discuss alternative solutions to the climate emergency, and to give voice and strenght to the poor populations around the world which are often reduced to be the sole victims of the catastrophic consequences of climate changes.
Among the many hosts and speakers at the conference will be sociologist Naomi Klein, linguist Noam Chomsky , actors Danny Glover, Susan Sarandon, actor and director Robert Redford, director James Cameron (Avatar) , and the scientist James Hansen.
The conference will also try to respond to the poor (if none) results achieved in the last December ONU meeting in Copenhagen. Bolivia’s president Evo Morales and his government want to promote the creation of a Paper Rights and an International Tribunal to be the reference for everyone on all climate changes issues.
Beside the conference’s talks many collateral meetings as well as 17 discussion forums will be followed by the National Bolivian TV and Radio media and from the Web.
More info at www.cmpcc.org
Informatics without borders is a great project started out in Padova, Italy in 2005 which aims at bridging the digital divide.
The primary goal of this Non Profit Organization is to use technologies and IT knowledge to effectively and directly help people in difficult and neglected situations, given the fact that Information Technology is an essential pre-requisite to the economic and social development.
Informatics Without Borders is carrying projects in emerging countries as well as in Italy (hospitals, prisons, and schools) which provide basic IT courses for children and adults, small Information Systems for some peculiar reality such as the Brescia’s long hospitalization department for children, or some hospitals in Africa’s rural zones, (Open Hospital), which helps manage the day-to-day operations in small hospitals.
Informatics Without Borders has seven regional department to date and more than 200 affiliates , both from the IT world and not, who are actively helping the organization.
To learn more about Informatics Without Borders we invite you to visit their site at:
Jan 062010
From BBC News:
“Peru’s Supreme Court has upheld a 25-year jail sentence imposed on former President Alberto Fujimori.
The term was handed down last April for ordering the security forces to carry out killings and kidnappings.
Fujimori, who led Peru from 1990 to 2000, returned from exile in late 2007 to face his accusers.
It was the first time a democratically elected Latin American leader was found guilty of human rights abuses in his own country.
Fujimori had denied overseeing a death squad as part of a “dirty war” against suspected Maoist Shining Path guerrillas in the early 1990s.
But he was convicted of directing the killings of 25 people, following a 15-month trial.
Fujimori is serving three other concurrent prison sentences.
In September last year, he was found guilty of illegally tapping phones and bribing journalists, businessmen and opposition politicians.
Last July, he was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years for giving $15m (£9.3m) in state funds to his spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos.
And in 2007, he was sentenced to a six-year term on separate charges of abuse of power.
After his government was brought down in 2000, Fujimori escaped to Japan, where his parents were born, and lived in exile for seven years”.
During our trip to Central America in 2008 we’ve been lucky to encounter while snrorkeling along the coast of Belize these gentle and shy creatures who were slowly swimming in the deep blue. It’s not that easy to see them, so it’s been a moving experience.
A group of scientist has recently published a research wich reveals many peculiarities of this strage mammal and also explains why they have to migrate along dangerous routes undersea in some seasons. If you wish to learn more about Manatees and their habits, go to this link from the BBC
In the meantime enjoy the show……
From BBC
“President Evo Morales seems set to push ahead with the implementation of a new constitution to place indigenous peoples at the heart of Bolivia’s government and society after his victory in Sunday’s presidential election.
A poor result for the opposition suggests an easier passage for social reforms and a lessening of demands for secession by departments traditionally opposed to Mr Morales, according to analysts.
Preliminary results say that Mr Morales, an Aymara Indian and Bolivia’s first indigenous president, won at least 61% of the vote, easily defeating his conservative opponents.
That is a higher percentage than he won in 2005 when he was elected for his first mandate”.
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