Country / Region
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Date
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
No drop in the number of HIV cases |
At risk the target of reducing the number of new HIV infections by 75 percent by 2020. |
12/11/2017 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
Urban unemployment keeps rising |
Young people are the most affected by the deterioration of labour markets as a result of economic contraction. |
11/20/2017 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
Bribery affects the most vulnerable population |
Corruption is increasing and governments do little to combat it, says Transparency International. |
10/17/2017 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
Public expenditure on education does not have optimal results |
Only a third of children in third and fourth grade in the region meet the minimum benchmark for math proficiency. |
9/14/2017 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
Labor conditions continue to weaken |
Unemployment increase in 2016 was the highest in two decades. |
6/5/2017 |
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Latin America |
Increasing land concentration |
Region has the world’s greatest inequality in distribution of land. |
5/1/2017 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
LATIN AMERICA / THE CARIBBEAN: Gender violence does not yield |
According to UN Women, 98 percent of femicides and acts of violence against women go unpunished. |
11/24/2016 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
Improvement of rural work conditions is urgently needed |
More than 50 million people perform agricultural labor under vulnerable conditions. |
10/24/2016 |
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Latin America |
Democracy fails to consolidate |
New report from Latinobarómetro reveals that dissatisfaction with democracy is linked to inequality, discrimination and disparity. |
9/16/2016 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
Labor market policies must be reoriented |
ILO study reveals that achievements in the quality of employment in last 15 years have begun to reverse. |
6/30/2016 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
Potential increase in poverty |
According to ECLAC, 175 million people are living in poverty. |
4/19/2016 |
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Latin America |
Not the poorest but the most unequal region |
Latin America has one of the most unequal income distributions in the world. |
3/23/2016 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
Environmental Performance Index |
Region lags in protecting forests due to increased deforestation. |
2/23/2016 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
Citizens mobilize to end corruption |
Corruption Perception Index 2015 shows that there is still hope in the fight against corruption. |
1/28/2016 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
“Work for Human Development” |
The 2015 Human Development Report calls for improving working conditions in order to curb inequality |
12/21/2015 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
Labor market affected by economic downturn |
Unfavorable prospects for growth in the region will be reflected in rising unemployment. |
11/6/2015 |
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Andean Countries |
Figures on coca crops are not convincing |
Governments of Bolivia, Colombia and Peru released their reports on coca cultivation and production. |
8/31/2015 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
Remittances reach a record high |
Remittances from migrants to their home countries recovered their level of growth. |
6/17/2015 |
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Latin America / The Caribbean |
Far from reaching Millenium Goals in maternal and child mortality rates |
Maternal mortality rates have been reduced 40 percent in the region since 1990 and child mortality rates have dropped 67 percent. |
6/9/2015 |
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Latin America |
Decline in poverty rates has stalled |
Poverty stalled statistically but the number of people in poverty and indigence increased. |
1/29/2015 |
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