Full Coverage: North America

30.06.2006 NEW YORK, Jun 30 (IPS) - For the last six months, Dana Montana has been living in a tent on the lawn of his aunt's ruined house in New Orleans. Never a particularly pleasant scenario, now that Louisiana's summer heat has arrived, it has become downright awful.

30.06.2006 Al invalidar los tribunales de excepción de Guantánamo, la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos puso un freno a los amplios poderes asumidos por el presidente George W. Bush después de los atentados del 11 de setiembre de 2001.

30.06.2006 On the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing military commissions as a means of trying Guantanamo detainees, Amnesty International has warned President Bush not to try to resurrect the commissions under another name or to transfer human rights violations elsewhere upon the closure of the prison camp.

30.06.2006 The U.S. House of Representatives has voted down a proposal that would have effectively disenfranchised millions of American citizens who do not speak English very well, reports CivilRights.org.

30.06.2006 An open-ended hunger strike will be launched on the Fourth of July in front of the White House and around the country, demanding U.S. troops return home from Iraq immediately. Find out how you can be involved.

30.06.2006 Global trade can promote economic and social progress, but a ten-lane super highway, which could begin construction as early as 2007, may pose serious environmental, trade, and national security risks, warns the Worldwatch Institute.

30.06.2006 The US is maneuvering at world trade talks in Geneva this week to insert a special clause in trade negotiations that would make its illegal use of farm subsidies immune from prosecution, an international agency said today.

28.06.2006 The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it is prepared to enter the global warming debate and consider a lawsuit that aims to require the federal government to regulate green house gas emissions from motor vehicles.

28.06.2006 The US has perpetually been in denial about global warming, especially after the Earth Summit in Rio De Janerio held in 1992, but a recent report released by the US Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) may shake it out of its complacency. The report adds ammunition for lobbies within the US and forces outside it for pushing the world’s only superpower towards signing the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming.

28.06.2006 A 12-point programme for ending the US-initiated system of "renditions" and secret detentions in Europe has been drawn up by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists and the Association for the Prevention of Torture.

28.06.2006 Huolimatta USA:n varaulkoministerin kommenteista Venezuelan interventionismia vastaan, USA on itse päättänyt jatkaa sekaantumistaan Latinalaisen Amerikan politiikkaan tukemalla Yhdysvaltain armeijan koulutuskeskusta alueella. Pahamaineinen School of Americas on vuosien varrella kouluttanut alueelle diktaattoreita ja tukenut verisiä hyökkäyksiä kapinallisia vastaan.

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27.06.2006 The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether the Bush administration must regulate carbon dioxide to combat global warming, setting up what could be one of the court's most important decisions on the environment.

26.06.2006 As football fans enjoy the world cup, the Control Arms campaign is getting ready to kick off a whole series of events at the crucial UN Conference on Small Arms, which starts today. Visit The Stadium and score one for the campaign.

23.06.2006 Following Congress’s eighth pay raise since 1997 and the recent defeat of minimum-wage legislation in the Senate, the American Friends Service Committee, urged the House of Representatives to raise the federal minimum wage, which stands at $5.15 an hour.

22.06.2006 A Pentagon document has surfaced that classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, grouping it with retardation and personality disorder.

21.06.2006 The American Friends Service Committe says the Hagel-Martinez Amendment, proposed by the Senate, is not comprehensive enough and does nothing to permanently accept and incorporate undocumented workers into the nation’s social and economic landscape.

21.06.2006 What’s the best way to move entire towns from poverty to the middle class? Buy each and every child in the community a $100 laptop computer, said MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte at a recent conference launching the IDB’s new Building Opportunity for the Majority initiative.

21.06.2006 Advocates in Nigeria and the US have criticised a major new report from the State Department in Washington for ignoring the trafficking of Nigerian women into the US, and warned that the omission could undermine efforts to draw the huge Nigerian diaspora into the fight against household slavery in the US.

21.06.2006 The entire global political system has been fruitlessly distracted for nearly half a decade by 9/11 and its consequences, says John Sloboda. The US-led ‘war on terror’ not only fails to address the real threats facing humanity, it is exacerbating them, and bringing closer the likelihood of their devastating impacts on human and environmental security.