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Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot
TECHNICAL SUMMARY OF THE ECOSYSTEM PROFILE TROPICAL ANDES BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT 2021 Update DONOR COUNCIL NO-OBJECTION APPROVAL VERSION 26 APRIL 2021 Prepared by: Pronaturaleza - Fundación Peruana por la Conservación de la Naturaleza In association with: Panthera Colombia (Colombia) Fundación Ecológica Arcoiris (Ecuador) Practical Action (Bolivia and Peru) Birdlife International (UK) as Secretariat of the KBA Partnership Under the supervision and co-authorship of: Michele Zador, Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund Ecosystem profiling team: Rafael Antelo Alfredo López Rocío Bardales Shirley Pazos Judith Borja Elizabeth Peña Mónica Cuba Fernando Regal David Díaz Daniel Toro Mirella Gallardo Antonio Tovar Sandra Isola Julieta Vargas Maricruz Jaramillo Rocío Vásquez Arturo Jimenez Claudia Vega Melina Laporte With the support of the Tropical Andes Regional Implementation Team (RIT) Jorge Mariaca, Bolivia Odile Sánchez, Perú Martha Silva, Colombia Paola Zavala, Ecuador 1. INTRODUCTION The Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot extends from the Andes Mountains of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and the northern sections of Chile and Argentina (Figure 1.1). It constitutes one of 36 biodiversity hotspots in the world that together cover 16.7 percent of the Earth's land surface, but are home to an inordinate number of threatened endemic species. Biodiversity hotspots contain at least 1,500 endemic plant species and have lost at least 70 percent of their natural habitat. Most hotspots are located in tropical countries with complex political systems, major economic and human development challenges. Figure 1.1. Location of the Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) was established to channel funding to non-governmental organizations to conserve critical ecosystems in biodiversity hotspots. -
Key 2017 Developments in Latin American Anti-Corruption Enforcement
Anti corruption Key 2017 developments in Latin American anti-corruption enforcement Anti-corruption laws are being tightened across Latin America and businesses active in the region need to take note. In this article, lawyers at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher review key recent developments in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and Peru. n 2017, several Latin American countries stepped up enforcement I and legislative efforts to address corruption in the region. Enforcement activity regarding alleged bribery schemes involving construction conglomerate Odebrecht rippled across Latin America’s business and political environments during the year, with allegations stemming from Brazil’s ongoing Operation Car Wash investigation leading to prosecutions in neighbouring countries. Simultaneously, governments in Latin America have made efforts to strengthen legislative regimes to combat corruption, including expanding liability provisions targeting foreign companies and private individuals. This article focuses on five Latin totaling $10.5 million USD to Mexican corruption cases. The allegations are also American countries (Mexico, Brazil, government officials between 2010 and notable due to their similarity to the Argentina, Colombia, and Peru) that 2014 to secure public contracts. 4 In allegations in Brazil’s Car Wash have ramped up anti-corruption September 2017, Mexico’s SFP released a investigation. In both inquiries, funds enforcement or passed legislation statement noting the agency had were allegedly embezzled from state expanding anti-corruption legal identified $119 million pesos (approx. coffers for the benefit of political party regimes. 1 New laws in the region, $6.7 million USD) in administrative campaigns. coupled with potentially renewed irregularities involving a Pemex public prosecutorial vigour to enforce them, servant and a contract with an Odebrecht Legislative update make it imperative for companies subsidiary. -
Neoliberal Modernity Crisis in Latin America at the Twenty-First Century: Social Cleavages, National Challenges and Hemispheric Revisionism
Neoliberal Modernity Crisis in Latin America at the Twenty-First Century: Social Cleavages, National Challenges and Hemispheric Revisionism by Gustavo Adolfo Morales Vega A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario © 2015 Gustavo Adolfo Morales Vega To my wife Catalina and our son Gabriel who often remind me that our representations of the world are also tied to deep feelings and emotions. ii Abstract This dissertation is concerned with the way the crisis of the neoliberal modernity project applied in Latin America during the 80s and 90s affected the political order of the hemisphere at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This work’s main argument is that the responses to the social cleavages produced by the global hegemonic pretension of neoliberalism have, on one hand, produced governments in the region driven internally by different and opposed places of enunciation, practices, ideas, and rationalities. On the other hand, these responses have generated locked international communities in the continent between “blocs” moved by different collective meanings. What Latin America is currently living through is not a process of transition resulting from the accomplishment of a new hemispheric consensus but a moment of uncertainty, a consequence of the profound crisis of legitimacy left by the increased weakness of neoliberal collective meanings. It is precisely the dispute about the “correct” collective judgement to organize the American space that moves the international stage in an apparently contradictory dynamic of regional integration and confrontation. -
War Crimes Prosecution Watch
WAR CRIMES PROSECUTION EDITOR IN CHIEF FREDERICK K. COX WATCH Sarah Greenlee INTERNATIONAL LAW CENTER MANAGING EDITOR Michael P. Scharf and Matthew T. Wholey Brianne M. Draffin, Advisors Volume 4 - Issue 2 April 27, 2009 SENIOR TECHNICAL EDITOR Alexander McElroy War Crimes Prosecution Watch is a bi-weekly e-newsletter that compiles official documents and articles from major news sources detailing and analyzing salient issues pertaining to the investigation and prosecution of war crimes throughout the world. To subscribe, please email [email protected] and type "subscribe" in the subject line. Contents AFRICA International Criminal Court Central African Republic & Uganda The New Vision:LRA commander held as prisoner of war Darfur, Sudan Sudan Tribune: Egypt FM Challenges ICC to Execute Warrant Against Sudan’s Bashir Sudan Tribune: Sudan to Hold Joint Talks on Darfur with French and British Officials Sudan Tribune: ICC Prosecutor Calls for Isolating Sudan President Sudan Tribune: ICC Prosecutor Adds New Name(s) to Case Against Darfur Rebels This Day: Sudan: Groups Task Yar’Adua on Darfur Aid Democratic Republic of the Congo (ICC) UGPulse.com: 40 percent of children in rebel captivity suffer PTSD Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Journalist Recalls Disturbing Prison Ordeal LubangaTrial.org: Court Focuses on Witness Protection International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Hirondelle News Agency: Chamber to hear last four prosecution witnesses Wednesday Hirondelle News Agency: ICTR Trial Chamber to hear witness in Kigali Hirondelle -
Labour Exploitation, Trafficking and Migrant Health
Labour Exploitation, Labour Exploitation, Trafficking and Migrant Health and Migrant Trafficking Labour Exploitation, Trafficking and Migrant Health: Multi-country Findings on the Health Risks and Consequences of Migrant and Trafficked Workers International Organization for Migration (IOM) International Organization for Migration (IOM) IOM OIM The opinions expressed in the report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) or the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The designations employed and the presentation of material throughout the report do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of IOM or LSHTM concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, or of its authorities, or concerning its frontiers or boundaries. IOM is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society. As an intergovernmental organization, IOM acts with its partners in the international community to: assist in meeting the operational challenges of migration; advance understanding of migration issues; encourage social and economic development through migration; and uphold the human dignity and well-being of migrants. Report authors: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Ana Maria Buller, Hanni Stoklosa and Cathy Zimmerman International Organization for Migration Vanesa Vaca and Rosilyne Borland Publisher: International Organization for Migration 17 route des Morillons 1211 Geneva 19 Switzerland Tel: +41.22.717 91 11 Fax: +41.22.798 61 50 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.iom.int This publication was made possible through support provided by the United States Department of State, under the terms of Award No. -
Background- Peru1 Peru Is the Third Largest Country in South America
Background- Peru1 Peru is the third largest country in South America, after Brazil and Argentina, home to 30 million people. It is a developed democracy still grappling with a lingering legacy of repeated military coups, mistreatment of indigenous peoples, and severe human rights abuses committed during a 1980s and 1990s communist insurgency. It has the unenviable distinction of being, by far, the state appearing the most frequently before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Peru’s colonial period was marked by notably strong military control and brutal repression of indigenous populations. Spain conquered the Inca Empire in the 1500s but Indians repeatedly rebelled against Spanish rule, most notably under Túpac Amaru II, an Incan and Spanish aristocrat who the Spanish tortured to death for leading a 1780 rebellion. By the 1800s, Spain had firm control over Peru with a large Spanish population and military presence. However, the Spanish military presence threatened revolutionaries from the newly independent Argentina and Bolivia and they invaded Peru and declared it independent in 1824. In the century following its independence, Peru gradually made progressive reforms but struggled with repeated wars and mounting foreign debt. After the Argentine and Bolivian revolutionaries departed, Peruvian military leaders engaged in an internal power struggle but ultimately established a stable military regime in the 1850s and a presidential democracy in the 1870s. From the 1850s to 1920s, Peru expanded voting rights, developed public education, abolished slavery, and introduced theoretical (if poorly enforced) rights for indigenous communities. However, the socialist Aprista party and the communists complained that support for the poor and indigenous communities did not go far enough. -
Special Activities
59th Annual International Conference of the Wildlife Disease Association Abstracts & Program May 30 - June 4, 2010 Puerto Iguazú Misiones, Argentina Iguazú, Argentina. 59th Annual International Conference of the Wildlife Disease Association WDA 2010 OFFICERS AND COUNCIL MEMBERS OFFICERS President…………………………….…………………...………..………..Lynn Creekmore Vice-President………………………………...…………………..….Dolores Gavier-Widén Treasurer………………………………………..……..……….….……..…….Laurie Baeten Secretary……………………………………………..………..……………….…Pauline Nol Past President…………………………………………………..………Charles van Riper III COUNCIL MEMBERS AT LARGE Thierry Work Samantha Gibbs Wayne Boardman Christine Kreuder Johnson Kristin Mansfield Colin Gillin STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBER Terra Kelly SECTION CHAIRS Australasian Section…………………………..……………………….......Jenny McLelland European Section……………………..………………………………..……….….Paul Duff Nordic Section………………………..………………………………..………….Erik Ågren Wildlife Veterinarian Section……..…………………………………..…………Colin Gillin JOURNAL EDITOR Jim Mills NEWSLETTER EDITOR Jenny Powers WEBSITE EDITOR Bridget Schuler BUSINESS MANAGER Kay Rose EXECUTIVE MANAGER Ed Addison ii Iguazú, Argentina. 59th Annual International Conference of the Wildlife Disease Association ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Executive President and Press, media and On-site Volunteers Conference Chair publicity Judy Uhart Marcela Uhart Miguel Saggese Marcela Orozco Carlos Sanchez Maria Palamar General Secretary and Flavia Miranda Program Chair Registrations Elizabeth Chang Reissig Pablo Beldomenico Management Patricia Mendoza Hebe Ferreyra -
Los Usos Y Abusos De La Memoria De María Elena Moyano
Vol. 7, No. 2, Winter 2010, 165-209 www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente Los usos y abusos de la memoria de María Elena Moyano Jo-Marie Burt George Mason University El 15 de febrero de 1992, un escuadrón de aniquilamiento de Sendero Luminoso asesinó a María Elena Moyano, reconocida dirigente comunitaria y teniente alcaldesa de Villa El Salvador, distrito popular del Cono Sur de Lima. Sendero Luminoso inició su llamada “guerra popular prolongada” contra el Estado peruano en 1980, y sus tácticas incluían ataques no sólo a representantes del Estado o a miembros de la burguesía peruana, sino también a dirigentes de organizaciones populares y de partidos de la izquierda, a quienes consideraban un obstáculo para la conquista del poder vía la revolución armada. En la medida que Sendero iba ganando terreno en Lima y atacando a dirigentes de organizaciones comunitarias como sindicatos, clubs de madres y comedores populares, Moyano comenzó a criticar, cada vez con más severidad, a la organización subversiva. Sus declaraciones repercutieron mucho en los medios de comunicación, no sólo porque era una mujer de un distrito popular, sino también porque pocas personas se atrevían a enfrentar con tanta claridad a Sendero Luminoso. Su muerte ocurrió al día siguiente de un paro armado Burt 166 declarado por Sendero Luminoso en Lima,y que ella intentó contrarrestar con una marcha por la paz. 1 Preocupada por el avance de Sendero Luminoso en Villa El Salvador, especialmente entre las filas de las organizaciones de mujeres, María Elena Moyano jugó un rol decisivo en la organización de diversas iniciativas para frenar la presencia senderista en el distrito. -
Bringing Economic Development for Whom? an Exploratory Study of the Impact of the Interoceanic Highway on the Livelihood of Smallholders in the Amazon
Landscape and Urban Planning xxx (xxxx) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Landscape and Urban Planning journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/landurbplan Research Paper Bringing economic development for whom? An exploratory study of the impact of the Interoceanic Highway on the livelihood of smallholders in the Amazon A.S. Oliveiraa, B.S. Soares-Filhoa, M.A. Costab, L. Limac, R.A. Garciad, R. Rajãob, ⁎ S.M. Carvalho-Ribeiroa, a Instituto de Geociências, Centro de Sensoriamento Remoto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Belo Horizonte, MG 31270-900, Brazil b Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, Laboratório de Gestão de Serviços Ambientais, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Belo Horizonte, MG 31270-900, Brazil c Departamento de Engenharia Hidráulica e Recursos Hídricos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Belo Horizonte, MG 31270-900, Brazil d Instituto de Geociências, Departamento de Geografia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627, Belo Horizonte, MG 31270-900, Brazil ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords: Significant research efforts have been devoted to characterizing smallholding productive systems and assessing Amazon forest livelihoods the relative contribution of small-scale farming to global food production. However, there is a noted paucity of Land use rents studies addressing the determinants of and contributors to income generation of smallholders around the world, Smallholders particularly in the Amazon -
Association ANDES
Association ANDES Policy That Works For Biodiversity and Poverty Reduction: The ANDES Community Initiative Component of the Scoping Study on Biodiversity Governance in Peru Final Report Research team: ANDES Staff: Inti Montenegro de Wit, Madalena Monteban, Irma Valdez ANDES Barefoot Technicians in Lares: Feliciano Gutierrez and Victor Oblitas Time Period: April 1st-May 10th 2005 Submission Date: July 28th, 2005 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Problem: A conventional approach to assessing poverty would employ definitions and measures of poverty based only on income levels or consumption levels, with the conjecture that the poverty line can be adequately drawn primarily according to the cost of food. National household surveys would follow with questions like: What is your primary job? Secondary job? How many family members are there? How many members work? How much do you spend daily? etc. Finally, the survey data would be compiled, analyzed, mapped out and used in the elaboration of national poverty alleviation strategies. Conducting this type of poverty analysis with a fixed set of indicators and easy to compile survey answers would certainly be a very straightforward procedure with clear and manageable results, easily transformed into map form with color-coded zones that vary according to poverty level like the one generated by Peru’s Ministry of Economy and Finances in 2001. Nevertheless, a relevant question that inevitably emerges is what does this kind of map mean? In particular, what relevance does this kind of map have to Peru’s poor? Ideally, since poverty alleviation strategies derive directly from maps such as these, the zones indicated as most economically poor would correspond to populations most in need and deserving of social assistance. -
Javier Diez Canseco El Internacionalista
Si nos preguntan por qué persistir en el Socialismo, bastaría constatar que los problemas que le dieron origen siguen presentes y, en muchos casos, se agudizan. La desigualdad es mayor que nunca, la miseria es crónica en muchas regiones y el trabajo humano se ha precarizado. Mientras la ciencia y la tecnología avanzan aceleradamente, aumentando la productividad y eficiencia de los servicios, millones mueren de hambre y epidemias tradicionales y nuevas arrasan. Los niveles de exclusión preocupan en los informes de organismos internacionales, mientras la tierra se recalienta por la degradación del modelo de desarrollo imperante. El Socialismo– enfrentando un balance crítico de su historia mundial y nacional, así como visiones sectarias y dogmáticas e ideas erróneas que condujeron a autoritarismos y modelos verticales que expropiaron el poder a las mayorías– , es una opción y una visión alternativa cuyos pilares de equidad, justicia, El internacionalista no discriminación, democracia participativa y ética de los productores mantiene vigencia y puede demostrar que “otro mundo es posible” si se entrelaza con las grandes mayorías y bebe de susafanes. JAVIER DIEZ CANSECO El internacionalista JAVIER DIEZ CANSECO DIEZ JAVIER Distribuidora Editorial JAVIER DIEZ CANSECO El internacionalista JAVIER DIEZ CANSECO El internacionalista Equipo editor Maruja Bedoya Hugo Cabieses Gladys Fernández Liliana Panizo Alberto Phumpiu Compilación y cuidado de edición Hernando Burgos Diseño y diagramación Carla De la Quintana Milla Fotografía: Archivo familiar de Liliana Panizo Archivo diario La República Hiperactiva Comunicaciones EIRL Alberto Phumpiu Ernesto Jiménez Hecho el Depósito Legal en la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú Nº 2015 05608 Impresión KINKO’S IMPRESORES SAC Av. -
UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA Los Angeles on The
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles On the Sequential Negotiation of Identity in Spanish-Language Discourse: Mobilizing Linguistic Resources in the Service of Social Action A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Languages and Literatures by Chase Wesley Raymond 2014 © Copyright by Chase Wesley Raymond 2014 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION On the Sequential Negotiation of Identity in Spanish-Language Discourse: Mobilizing Linguistic Resources in the Service of Social Action by Chase Wesley Raymond Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Languages and Literatures University of California, Los Angeles, 2014 Professor John Heritage, Co-chair Professor Claudia Parodi-Lewin, Co-chair This dissertation takes an ethnomethodologically-grounded, conversation-analytic approach in investigating the sequential deployment of linguistic resources in Spanish-language talk-in-interaction. Three sets of resources are examined: 2nd-person singular reference forms (tú, vos, usted), indicative/subjunctive verbal mood selection, and Spanish-English intersentential code-switching. In each case, we ask: How is it that these elements of language are mobilized by speakers to accomplish identity in the service of social action in interaction? With regard to 2nd-person reference forms, we illustrate how the turn-by-turn progression of talk can make relevant shifts in the linguistic means through which speakers refer to their hearers. It is demonstrated that these shifts contribute to the objective of an utterance by mobilizing the pragmatic meaning of a pronominal form to embody a recalibration of who the ii interactants project they are to one another—not in general, but rather at a particular moment in the ongoing interaction.