The Chilean Congress is considering a bill that would institute political gender quotas. Political parties and coalitions would be required to field at least forty percent female candidates. Chilean legislators have tried to introduce...
For many years, urban decay affected many cities and towns across the United States. Most notably in Detroit, abandoned or deteriorating housing units are part of the everyday landscape. In many cities, government efforts...
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy announced today proposed pollution limits for power plants that would require dramatic cuts in carbon dioxide emissions. download “Our plan aims to cut energy waste and leverage...
Efforts to raise the minimum wage at local and state levels are gaining traction. In Seattle, the City Council is expected to pass a measure today that would raise the city’s minimum wage in...
In what many describe as a major turning point in India’s political history, the Hindu Nationalist group Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP has stormed into power with a landslide victory in the recent parliamentary...
Thirty years ago today a bomb went off at a press conference in Nicaragua during the height of the Contra war. Today, journalists in Costa Rica remember the bombing and look for answers to...
Nearly 4000 people traveled over the weekend to the depths of Mexico´s Lacandon Jungle to pay homage to a murdered Zapatista teacher who had been deeply involved in the rebels’ latest initiative and autonomous...
In Ukraine, voters overwhelmingly elected a candy-maker tycoon to be the country’s first elected president since pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was forced from power in February following Kiev’s populist Maidan movement. Billionaire Petro Poroshenko...
A report released earlier this month details the public health and environmental impacts from coal ash, where a spill in North Carolina in February sent 27 million gallons of toxic wastewater connected to a...
In Thailand Tuesday, police arrested a former education minister in the recently deposed elected government as he publicly warned the Thai military against cracking down on protesters of last week’s coup d’état. The Thai...
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