News stories by Diana Cariboni, page 2

MONTEVIDEO, Aug 14 (IPS) - Latin America and the Caribbean should play a central role in the construction of "sexual citizenship" - a concept that covers a series of population-related issues, rights and guarantees that this region helped build since the United Nations first emerged, says Brazilian expert Carmen Barroso.

MONTEVIDEO/WASHINGTON, Jul 04 (IPS) - The suspicion that Bolivian President Evo Morales' jet was carrying Edward Snowden, the former intelligence contractor who has become Washington´s public enemy number one, triggered an unprecedented international incident.

MEXICO CITY, May 14 (IPS) - When people are forcibly disappeared in Mexico, it does not necessarily mean that the victims are immediately killed. In this country of entrenched violence, forced disappearance is also a method used to feed the markets for sexual exploitation and slave labour.

MONTEVIDEO, Apr 17 (IPS) - When the left was in opposition in Latin America, it never tired of repeating that true democracy was not limited to electing governments at the ballot box. Democracy was also needed in the distribution of rights and riches.

Uruguay's Electoral Court announced Monday that the governing Broad Front (FA) candidate José Mujica took 47.5 percent of the vote in Sunday's elections, which means he will face off with former conservative president Luis Alberto Lacalle of the National Party (PN) in a second round on Nov. 29.

When Uruguay returned to democracy in 1985, 'a political corset was put on women,' said a member of the opposition Colorado Party.