BIF News Briefing, August 2012
CONTENTS 1. TIPNIS consultation extended after community resistance 2. Freedom of expression concerns as government takes legal action against newspapers 3. Protests over illegal coca plantations and ‘ecological’ military deployment 4. Tensions mount over Colquiri mine 5. MAS plans to eradicate extreme poverty by 2025 Bicentenary 6. Sacha Llorenti named as ambassador to the UN [...]
BIF News Briefing, July 2012
1. TIPNIS consultation begins 2. Mallku Qhota: government nationalises mining concession 3. Indian steel company Jindal abandons Mutún project 4. Santa Cruz governor faces suspension 5. Cristina Fernández visits Bolivia to negotiate gas deal 6. The Bolivian economy grew 5.17% in 2011 1. TIPNIS consultation begins Consultation with communities that live in the TIPNIS national [...]
BIF News Briefing, May to June 2012
CONTENTS 1. Government signs agreement with health workers, ending 52 day strike 2. OAS assembly in Cochabamba: Morales and Correa call for reform 3. Law on political violence against women passed with unanimity 4. Disputes over mine concessions in Mallku Qhota and Colquiri 5. Urban property law passed 1. Government signs agreement with health workers, [...]
BIF News Briefing, April 2012
1. Health workers escalate protests, strikes called by the COB 2. May Day nationalisation of electricity network 3. Indigenous march to La Paz begins 4. Summit of the Americas ends without agreement 1. Health workers escalate protests, strikes called by the COB Strikes and mobilisations by health workers, doctors and medical students have been growing [...]
Bolivia Information Forum: news briefing
CONTENTS 1. TIPNIS communities to march again 2. Troops deployed to counter citizen insecurity 3. Evo raises issue of coca chewing at UN narcotics summit in Vienna 4. US-Bolivia relations progress despite diplomatic incident 5. Boundary dispute between Oruro and Potosi continues 6. Protests over increasing transport costs 7. Aerosur close to collapse 1. TIPNIS [...]
keep looking »
Suicide Hitler proven (The Seduction)
Palestinian children testify about cruel treatment by Israeli soldiers in new short film (VIDEO)
Heart-to-Hearth on the Drug War
Harry Wu and the Quality of Labor
.jpg)
Palestinian-Dutch “Disarming Design” project inspired by artwork in captivity
Food speaks the language of Tradition and Culture
Execution of at least 10 prisoners postponed until Saturday
Aeras, GSK deal to Advance TB Vaccine research
CPN Maoist says a new war has begun (VIDEO)
Doubts Raised About the Alleged Assassin of Marisela Escobedo
Urgent: 10 prisoners scheduled for execution today
Kenya’s Professionals call for a supreme natural resource law
Africans innovators called to participate in Project Incubator Award
Israel goes to the polls in two or three months
Morsi’s 100 days, a performance which is viewed with mixed feelings
