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Increase retirement benefits for Canadians: Study
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
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As a first priority, the report said, benefits should be raised enough to keep single seniors above Statistics Canada's low-income cutoff. The total maximum OAS/GIS income of about $14,000 for a single pensioner is about $4,000 less than the low-income...
Tags: OAS, Monica Townson, Statistics Canada, pensions plan, GIS, Canada, Ottawa, Registered Retirement Savings Plan, Old Age Security, Canada Pension Plan, Business Finance, Social Issues, Taxation in Canada, Financial services, Investment, Labor, Retirement, Pension
Inter-American human rights system celebrates 50th anniversary
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today held a special session to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IACHR), the 40th anniversary of the American Convention...
Vigilantes: A Human Rights Violation? OAS to Judge USA!
Residents of Douglas, Arizona recall Minutemen driving through their small city's downtown district randomly stopping shoppers and passers-by demanding to know if they had "papers." From those early days of the first border vigilante groups,...
Tags: Douglas AZ, Minutemen, Border Action Network, vigilante, Jennifer Allen, Organization of American States, OAS, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Seánna Howard, Patriots Coalition, Chris Simcox, Minuteman, US Government, IPLP
Honduran Coup Regime in Crisis
Tegucigalpa :: Honduras | about 1 month ago
Credibility So far Roberto Micheletti, installed by the coup as president, is showing the same obstinacy. Shortly after Zelaya's surprise appearance in the Brazilian Embassy on September 21 after having entered the country unnoticed, probably from El Salvador or...
Tags: Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, Mr Zelaya, world cup, ousted presidents, presidents manuel, Bruno Stagno, Honduran, foreign minister, OAS
OAS returns again to Honduras to seek negotiated solution to crisis
So far Micheletti has been adamant about any agreement that gives Zelaya amnesty or reinstates him as president. However, many in the military, the business elite, and the Roman Catholic Church all of whom support the coup, want a negotiated resolution...
Tags: Micheletti, Honduran coup, OAS, Zelaya
The Beginning of the Fall of the Honduran Military Coup
By Carlos Marentes, La Via Campesena regional leader. September 21, 2009 - Tonight, the heroic Honduran resistance, represented by thousands of workers, peasants, women, teachers, indigenous and afro-descendent people, students, human rights activists,...
Tags: National Front of Resistance Against the Coup, Organization of American States, OAS, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Oscar Arias, Manuel Zelaya, Las Cobras, Roberto Micheletti, Daniel Ortega, Denis Moncada, Francisco Morazan, Honduras coup, San José Accord, Ziomara Castro, Rafael Alegria, La Via Campesina
U.S. prepares new sanctions on Honduran coup leaders, Micheletti plan rejected by OAS
The OAS delegation that was to convince the Honduran govt. to accept the Arias accords failed and so the U.S. is preparing apparently to step up pressure on the regime. ""Officials here say Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected...
Tags: OAS, Honduran coup government, Micheletti, Zelaya, US aid to Honduras.
Central American bank freezes Honduras loans
Tegucigalpa :: Honduras | 3 months ago
Credibility Central America's development bank says it is freezing credits to Honduras following the June 28 coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Local media say the decision could affect infrastructure projects like planned highways in the impoverished Central...
Tags: Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, OAS, U.S, president manuel, ousted president, Organisation of American States, interim government, Honduran
OAS group reports on Human Rights violations in Honduras
So far there is a deafening silence in the mainstream press about this but that is typical of anything happening in Honduras these days. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) reports that force used by authorities against the public was...
Tags: OAS, IACHR, Human rights in Honduars, Honduran coup
Argentina expels Honduran ambassador
Tegucigalpa :: Honduras | 3 months ago
Credibility Ortez voiced support for the interim leader Roberto Micheletti, who is not recognized by the international community, the Foreign Ministry statement added. In the first military coup in Central America in a quarter of a century, the Honduran military...
Tags: Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, Honduran, Roberto Micheletti, OAS
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