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When Facebook users in Argentina logged on to the social network Wednesday, they may have noticed that something had disappeared - their friends' profile pictures went missing...
...memory of the disappeared of the Argentine military dictatorship, whose own faces were seized by intolerance and totalitarianism. I invite you to do the same. No profile photo. Never again," the updates went on, finishing off with an allusion to the title phrase of Argentina's 1984 CONADEP National Commission on the Disappeared...
Amnesty International may be best known to American audiences for bringing to light horror stories abroad such as the disappearance of political activists in Argentina or the abysmal conditions inside South African prisons under apartheid. But in a new report on pregnancy and childbirth care in the U.S., Amnesty details the maternal-health care crisis in this country as part of a systemic violation of women's rights...
...Cohen ’10, a former Eliot House resident who moved into an apartment near Inman Square this year after spending the fall semester in Argentina, says that his experiences overseas changed his perspective on living spaces...
...member states - Austria, Hungary, France, Greece, Germany and Luxembourg - ban the cultivation of GM maize on their territories. The bans were declared illegal in a World Trade Organization panel ruling in 2006, following a case brought by the U.S., Canada and Argentina. The WTO said the national safeguards were not based, as required, on scientific assessment of the risks. In the face of fierce member-state opposition, though, the E.U. has yet to fully implement the WTO's ruling. (See pictures of immigration in Europe...