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BOLIVIA: Businesses Take On the Green Challenge

BOLIVIA: LA PAZ, Aug 20 (Tierramérica) - What do Bolivia's largest textile mill, an organic cacao cooperative and an indigenous-run tourist hostel in the Amazon have in common? The answer lies in the path, shaky but inspiring, that they ...

From BERNARDA CLAURE, Inter Press Service,  20 Aug 2008
Related Topics: United States Agency for International Development

ENVIRONMENT: Indians Close Ranks Against Dams in the Amazon

ENVIRONMENT: LA PAZ, Jul 10 (Tierramérica) - Indigenous communities in Bolivia and Brazil have declared an emergency in response to the construction of the Madera River Hydroelectric Complex, which Brasilia is pursuing even as independent ...

From BERNARDA CLAURE, Inter Press Service,  10 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva,  Evo Morales

LABOUR-BOLIVIA: Infusing Business with Youth, Innovation

LABOUR-BOLIVIA: LA PAZ, Jun 19 (IPS) - Cotillones El Sol organises parties in Tarija, in southern Bolivia. Nancy Martínez, the 23-year-old manager and owner of the six-month-old company, already employs several other young women. The small ...

From BERNARDA CLAURE, Inter Press Service,  19 Jun 2008

BOLIVIA: Domestics to Gain Healthcare Coverage

BOLIVIA: LA PAZ, Jun 12 (IPS) - Domestic workers in Bolivia, most of whom are young indigenous women from the highlands region, are about to gain access to healthcare coverage. A law in effect since 2003 already limited their workdays to 10 ...

From BERNARDA CLAURE, Inter Press Service,  12 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Evo Morales

BOLIVIA-PERU: Titicaca Truths Revealed

BOLIVIA-PERU: BAHÍA DE COHANA, Bolivia, Jun 7 (Tierramérica) - Nobody doubts that Lake Titicaca, a watershed and resource shared by Bolivia and Peru, is polluted. But a half-century after the two governments realised there was a problem ...

From BERNARDA CLAURE, Inter Press Service,  7 Jun 2008
Related Topics: United Nations

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