http://www.uk.oneworld.net/article/country/962/ en_GB_uk OneWorld UK - Central America Central America Anti-Poverty Campaign Draws Little Interest in C. America http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/80782 While the Global Call to Action against Poverty campaign has planned plenty of events during this year's "Stand Up and Speak Out" day, the people and media seem unenthusiastic in Central America. Diego Cevallos reports from Mexico City. U.S. Vote Could Close 'School of the Americas' http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/150501/1/ SAN FRANCISCO, Jun 21 (OneWorld) - The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to take what advocates are calling a historic vote this week to close the largest U.S. military training ground for soldiers from Central and South America. Child Hunger Undermining Central American Poverty Drive http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/78705 Child undernutrition in Central America cost $6.7 billion a year, or over 6 percent of the region’s entire gross domestic product – a burden that severely undermines international and national efforts to eradicate hunger and poverty, says a new UN report. From World Food Programme ENVIRONMENT-EL SALVADOR: Carbon Is the Biz http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/140383/1/ SAN SALVADOR, Oct 4 (IPS) - El Salvador is studying the Kyoto Protocol carefully, not because it has to cut its emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, but because this international agreement opens a way to earn profits and encourages investment for development. Not all gold glitters: Corporate gold-fever breeds resistance in Central America http://amlat.oneworld.net/article/view/140159/1/ For trans-national mining conglomerates, like GlamisGold, it’s a business that pays: The worldwide demand for silver and gold is as keen as seldom before. In search of new gold veins they expand to Central America. COSTA RICA: Companies Eye Pull-Outs if CAFTA Flounders http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/138408/1/ SAN JOSE, Aug 28 (IPS) - Weary of the snail's pace ratification process of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which continues to dominate Costa Rica's political and social agenda, some companies are weighing the idea of moving to other Central American countries should Congress reject the treaty. Putting Mining in the Public Eye http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/73770 To inform locals of the social and environmental costs of mining, as well as their rights to oppose it, a "Central American Week of Action Against Mining" was organized recently. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the happiest of them all? http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/73409 Vanuatu, Colombia and Costa Rica top a new global measure of progress, the "Happy Planet Index", with Central America emerging as the best region, thanks to relatively good life expectancy, high life satisfaction and above-average ecological impact. Self appointed world leaders score badly, with UK coming 108th in the list, the US 150th and Russia 172nd. Zimbabwe ranks as unhappiest country. * Happiness is...a tiny island in the Pacific Fighting for the Right to Healthcare http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/73361 Dr. Juan Manuel Canales has spent 25 years assisting poor peasant and indigenous communities in El Salvador and Chiapas, on the Mexico-Guatemala border, to demand their right to healthcare. He's been given this year's Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights. Battling a Black Epidemic http://africa.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/72054 As the World celeberates the 25th anniversay of the discovery of HIV/AIDS. Newsweek magazine reports on how HIV has increasingly become a disease of color Caribbean & Central America may get drier summers http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/71490 Researchers predict that by the end of this century, climate change could have cut tropical rainfall by 25 per cent in Central America and the Caribbean. Family Farmers Oppose Subsidies, Urge Plan to Save Homesteads http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/127399/1/ CARACAS, Feb 13 (OneWorld) - American family farmers are rallying support for a plan aimed at uprooting U.S. agricultural subsidies that they say are lavished upon agribusiness at the expense of smaller producers and consumers at home and abroad. Felling not to blame for post-hurricane flooding http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/68619 While forests provide natural flood defences against runoff, the massive flooding in Central America following Hurricane Stan earlier in October cannot be blamed on extensive deforestation, says a new UN report. OneWorld / BDO ICT for Development case studies: synthesis report http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/117718/1/ Synthesis report on 20 ICT case studies from organisations in South Asia, Southern Africa and Central America. Their activities vary from offering wireless communication equipment to tribal nomads and teaching slum children how to use a computer, to training NGOs how to build a website and online broadcasting of radio programmes. Preventing Cervical Cancer, One Coffee Grower at a Time http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/67476 Thousands of women in Central America are being tested for cervical cancer every year thanks to Grounds for Health, a unique partnership between American companies and the coffee-growing communities where they do business, which provides life-saving testing, follow-up, and treatment to co-op member families.