• Before the end of 2023, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights is expected to rule in the case of Beatriz, a young woman from El Salvador who needed an abortion to protect her life and health but was denied this care because of her country's total abortion ban. (ipas.org)
  • The Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Center (LALCC) at Central Connecticut State University, promotes the understanding and the appreciation of the historical, social, and cultural life of Latin American and Spanish Speaking Caribbean societies and of Latinos in the United States. (ccsu.edu)
  • Support, develop and promote the existing academic programs at CCSU, with special emphasis on curriculum, research, and educational activities of such programs (Latino and Puerto Rican studies, Latin American studies, programs in Hispanic language and culture) associated with the Center. (ccsu.edu)
  • Engage in community outreach activities to Latin American and Spanish Speaking Caribbean communities in Central Connecticut, focusing especially on elementary, high school, and CCSU students and faculty. (ccsu.edu)
  • A selection of new Latin American releases, to warm a cold Northern night or dance a Southern summer night away. (americasquarterly.org)
  • This paper reports the results of a mapping of governance arrangements across 29 civil aviation authorities in Latin American and Caribbean countries, with the International Civil Aviation Organization's South American and North American, Central American and Caribbean regions. (oecd.org)
  • Nirvana Gonzalez Rosa, co-founder of Taller Salud, the first feminist organization in the Caribbean, and coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network in Chile, took part in a symposium panel on building power and brokering change . (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Due to increased integration among Latin America and the Caribbean States, as well as of hemispheric organizations, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) - a regional and international organization that promotes the integration and development of its members- in 2010, noted that convergence on issues of common have evolved among regional organizations. (caribjournal.com)
  • 8. We recognize … the importance of permanent dialogue to consolidate consensus on issues of regional interest, on the basis of the principles of solidarity, complementariness with other regional and subregional experiences or institutions, and cooperation, and aimed at achieving effective results for a sustainable, inclusive and solidarity-based development of Latin American and Caribbean States. (caribjournal.com)
  • On 17 September, in Mexico City, the day before the VI Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) took place in the same locale, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which is one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations, announced its Comprehensive Development Plan for Central America to "address the structural causes of irregular migration. (caribbean-council.org)
  • The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation of people of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean, some twelve million of whom were forcibly imported into the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade. (harvard.edu)
  • The Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art continues the de Menil family's original mission and brings to the fore a renewed focus on a rich and understudied area. (harvard.edu)
  • Alejandro de la Fuente is Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, and Professor of African and African American Studies and History, at Harvard University. (harvard.edu)
  • The SICA bodies and Institutions such as Central American Secretariat for Economic Integration (SIECA), Secretariat of Central American Tourism Integration (SITCA), Coordination Center for Natural Disaster Prevention in Central America (CEPREDENAC), among others are important pillars for generating public policies. (caribjournal.com)
  • The report details impacts to Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and neighboring ports of call in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. (fmc.gov)
  • We have local presence in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica to support customers throughout the Caribbean and Central America. (visionaltechnology.com)
  • As of January 15, 2016, local transmission had been identified in at least 14 countries or territories in the Americas, including Puerto Rico (See Pan American Health Organization [PAHO] link below for countries and territories in the Americas with Zika virus transmission). (cdc.gov)
  • From its origins in Africa, it's been detected throughout tropical Asia, in Italy and France, and since December, 2013, in the Caribbean, including in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. (cdc.gov)
  • The Garifuna people are a unique ethnic group descending from Africa that were brought to central America after the Spanish Conquest. (pilotguides.com)
  • Scorpion stings are a major public health problem in many underdeveloped tropical and subtropical countries, especially Sahelian Africa, South India, the Middle East, Mexico, and South Latin America. (medscape.com)
  • The Central American Integration System (SICA) was formed in 1991 and is a regional organization which includes the States of Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. (caribjournal.com)
  • In response, in May 2015, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), which serves as the Regional Office of the Americas for the World Health Organization (WHO), issued recommendations to enhance surveillance for Zika virus. (cdc.gov)
  • The Director-General has the honour to transmit to the Executive Board the report provided on behalf of the Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (Regional Committee for the Americas) in line with operative paragraph 4 of decision EB129(8). (who.int)
  • The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has emphasized the need to engage countries in the ongoing WHO Reform debate, with PAHO/WHO Country Offices providing support to stimulate country debate among national authorities, including the offices of foreign affairs, as well as partners in the international community and other key stakeholders. (who.int)
  • When he took the helm at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) at the end of January, Jarbas Barbosa, MD, MPH, PhD, was intent on reshaping the image that the health sector developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. (medscape.com)
  • Today, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reports more than 300,000 suspected cases of chikungunya have been identified across the Caribbean, Central, and South America. (cdc.gov)
  • Since 2010 for example, CDC has joined with the Pan American Health Organization to craft a regional surveillance and response plan for the Americas. (cdc.gov)
  • IUCN's work in this region covers 7 countries in Central America (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama) together with Mexico, in addition to the Caribbean, which spans insular states and European overseas territories. (iucn.org)
  • Other Central American countries including Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala and El Salvador also have expressed strong interest in becoming members of the CCRIF. (worldbank.org)
  • The renovation and expansion of Route 32, the main highway connecting Costa Rica's capital with the Caribbean province of Limón, could start as early as next month, following the signing by Costa Rica of a $395 million loan package with China. (ticotimes.net)
  • Our Central America service and sales center is located in Costa Rica. (visionaltechnology.com)
  • This situation resulted in several countries founding the Pan-American Tennis Confederation in 1971, which had the recognition of the national Olympic committees of all America, which produced the return of tennis to the Central Americans and the Caribbean Santo Domingo 74 and the Pan American Games of Mexico 75. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, the IUCN has promoted the conservation of natural areas, the empowerment of civil society, the generation of knowledge and legality in favor of people and nature. (iucn.org)
  • For 35 years, the IUCN's Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (ORMACC) implements and executes projects alongside Members and allies mostly from countries in the region, either in specific local communities and indigenous peoples or in work areas that include more than one country or even terrestrial, coastal or marine zones. (iucn.org)
  • IUCN Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean works jointly with 112 Members and strategic allies in the region, to build together a fair world that values ​​and conserves nature through the implementation of projects related to biodiversity conservation, management of protected areas, community forestry, enforcement of rights, climate change, and water. (iucn.org)
  • The games are for 32 countries and 5 territories in Central America , the Caribbean ( Caribbean Countries ), Mexico , and the South American Caribbean countries of Colombia, Guyana , Suriname , and Venezuela. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mexico , Cuba and Guatemala were the three countries present at the first games, which were then called the Central American Games . (wikipedia.org)
  • By 2020, our customers in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean can expect a big change in Dayco's working processes. (dayco.com)
  • We will therefore invest in marketing initiatives to strengthen our brand and support our product sales throughout Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. (dayco.com)
  • Commissioner Sola says that ports of call should be made as reasonably safe as possible and proposes that the U.S. should provide surplus vaccines to Caribbean and Central American nations, including Panama and Mexico. (fmc.gov)
  • Last week in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean , worsening gang violence drove overall increases in violence in Haiti, Mexico, Honduras, and Jamaica. (acleddata.com)
  • It considers the rise of the US as an informal empire of finance capital as well as a territorial empire of gunboat diplomacy, military occupation, and territorial annexation across the circum-Caribbean, Mexico and Central America. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Centruroides - Southern United States, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean ( Centruroides exilicauda is found in the Baja California peninsula of Mexico and Centruroides sculpturatus is found in the state of Sonora, Mexico and the southwestern United States, primarily Arizona and small parts of Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, and California. (medscape.com)
  • [ 1 ] T cruzi mostly is found in blood-sucking triatomine insects (kissing bugs) and small mammals in a sylvatic cycle that is enzootic from the southern and southwestern United States to central Argentina and Chile. (medscape.com)
  • COTECC was created in 1992 as one of the points discussed in the Annual General Meeting of the ITF held in La Romana, Dominican Republic, in which it was agreed to create a governing body for tennis that would unite the countries of Central America, the Spanish Caribbean and the English Caribbean. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mejía adds that for the year 1982, during Central American and Caribbean Games in Havana, Cuba, it formed the basis for creating the COTECC that we currently have: the Central American and Caribbean Confederation of Tennis, with a large part of the countries that make it up today. (wikipedia.org)
  • A "Central American Games" does exist today, Juegos Centroamericanos, involving just Central American countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nine countries in Central America and the Caribbean experienced a disaster which had an economic impact above 50 percent of their annual GDP since 1980. (worldbank.org)
  • For the first time, Ministers of Finance of the Caribbean and Central American countries met during the World Bank Group and IMF Spring Meetings to draw lessons from the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) and see how this mechanism could be leveraged and opened up to Central American countries to cover tropical storms, earthquakes and other risks, including excess rainfall. (worldbank.org)
  • Recognizing how essential it was for Nuestros Cuerpos, Nuestras Vidas to reflect the plurality of cultures, politics and economics of Latinas throughout the Americas, OBOS initiated a collaboration with 19 women's health groups from 11 countries in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • The Association of Caribbean States (ACS) is a product of the desire of the 28 Contracting States, Countries and Territories of the Greater Caribbean to enhance cooperation within the region, an initiative aimed at building upon obvious geographic proximity and well-documented historical linkages. (caribjournal.com)
  • To that end, the ACS is an organization for consultation, cooperation and concerted action among the countries of the Greater Caribbean. (caribjournal.com)
  • Zephirin also pointed out that upturns in countries like the UK, the US and Canada are also benefiting markets in the Caribbean and Central American regions. (nuwireinvestor.com)
  • Investors from these countries are putting more funds into Caribbean and Central American properties. (nuwireinvestor.com)
  • The study determines the empirical dynamic responses of ten Caribbean countries and seven countries in Central America. (iadb.org)
  • The findings show that Caribbean countries are better prepared for natural disaster shocks. (iadb.org)
  • By assisting our Hemispheric neighbors, paying particular attention to those countries that host cruises originating from the U.S., we will make meaningful progress in reducing COVID-19 cases, emphasize strong relations with regional nations, and provide the foundation necessary for the recovery of an industry that is an economic engine for many American cities and industries. (fmc.gov)
  • Against this background, a first exploratory mission was carried out from 30 September to 12 October 1996 in the Caribbean and Central America (four countries were visited) and resulted in a first report, ( Report on the exploratory mission in the Caribbean and in Central America for DIPECHO by A. Angulo, Ch. Bugnion, Ph. (nzdl.org)
  • The reality is that in CARICOM countries and the Central American countries together, probably, circle the Caribbean Sea. (channel5belize.com)
  • In dozens of countries around the world, central banks are weighing the possibility of issuing their own digital currencies that would not only promote financial inclusion and reduce the costs of financial transactions but preserve the crucial role of monetary authorities in managing the economy. (iadb.org)
  • As of June 2022, several countries had officially launched their CBDCs, with nine of them in the Caribbean-The Bahamas, Jamaica, and all the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union members, except Anguilla, which was in the pilot phase. (iadb.org)
  • Check out the iodine status of countries in the Central America and Caribbean region. (ign.org)
  • Later in 2016, autochthonous cases were detected in countries in the Southern Cone other than Brazil and parts of North America. (cdc.gov)
  • Yellow fever vaccination is required to enter certain Sub-Saharan, Central African, and South American countries. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The status of mineral production in the Caribbean Basin countries. (cdc.gov)
  • Our Regional Coordinator and team of National Coordinators work across Central America and Caribbean to address iodine deficiency and improve iodine nutrition. (ign.org)
  • In a related matter, Commissioner Sola issued the latest Fact Finding 30 Interim Report, Economic Impact of COVID-19 on the Cruise Industry on U.S. Territories in the Caribbean . (fmc.gov)
  • Explore Central America's Pacific coast and visit some of the Caribbean's best paradises on a Caribbean island cruise. (hurtigruten.com)
  • Garifuna is the name used to describe all the black communities living in Central America's Caribbean coast. (pilotguides.com)
  • Following the March first and second meetings in San Pedro next week, CARICOM leaders will engage Central America's leaders at a CARICOM/S.I.C.A. Heads of Government meeting. (channel5belize.com)
  • Students explore the myriad ways in which ruling elites constructed social hierarchies to exploit and exclude racialized others including Chinese, Black, and indigenous Americans. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Here students explore both the vaunted American Dream and the rise of the USA as first a regional and eventually a global hegemon in terms of both the 'hard power' of economic and military might and the 'soft power' of culture, education, and mass media. (cam.ac.uk)
  • This study aims to explore the discourse on partnerships applied in the EU's development cooperation in Central America. (lu.se)
  • The chosen partner has extensive market expertise, which will provide us agility, organization and high quality product delivery," says Gustavo Queiroz, Aftermarket Latin America Logistics Manager. (dayco.com)
  • It explores how the region became a key site for the Cold War divergence between 'East' and 'West', with the communist revolution in Cuba triggering waves of radicalism and reaction that surged through Latin America. (cam.ac.uk)
  • January 13, 2020 - Dayco, a leading engine products and drive systems supplier for the automotive, industrial and aftermarket industries, is investing in improving its operations in the Mexican, Central American and Caribbean regions. (dayco.com)
  • The Confederation of Tennis of Central America and the Caribbean (COTECC) is the dependency of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) in the region whose objective is to implement policies that develop tennis in Central America and the Caribbean. (wikipedia.org)
  • At a time when many otherwise similar regions are struggling with various political, economic and social factors, the Caribbean region seems to be an island or relative stability. (nuwireinvestor.com)
  • The marketing and logistics functions are also now included within the South American team, in order to provide greater synergy in the region, allowing the sharing of best practice and successful case studies. (dayco.com)
  • Following the 18th session of Regional Association IV (RA IV-18), the North America, Central America and the Caribbean Region moved quickly to implement its decisions and resolutions in the framework of the WMO regional reform. (wmo.int)
  • All of this indicates a potentially promising future for digital currencies backed by central banks in a region where boosting financial inclusion is crucial for prosperity. (iadb.org)
  • The longitude and latitude of Key West are 24°33′20.53′′ N, 81°46′57.33′′W. B) Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree of the 1,484-nt envelope gene region from American DENV-1 isolates. (cdc.gov)
  • Energy and mineral potential of the Central American-Caribbean region. (cdc.gov)
  • There is going to be a meeting immediately following the CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting, there is going to be a CARICOM S.I.C.A. meeting which is a meeting of the two large integration groups in Central America and the Caribbean. (channel5belize.com)
  • and John Goede, from Suriname, responsible for the English, French and Dutch Caribbean nations. (wikipedia.org)
  • When the 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility's (CCRIF) was the first institution able to mobilize emergency funds within the first two weeks of the disaster to respond to the immediate needs of the Government. (worldbank.org)
  • to the revolutionary emergence of independence, first in Haiti in 1804, and then across Latin America. (harvard.edu)
  • From verdant volcanic peaks to coral-filled waters, Mayan temples, and exotic wildlife - Central America and the Caribbean have it all. (hurtigruten.com)
  • Central America and the Caribbean are home to lowland rainforests, beaches, mangrove swamps and waterfalls - each rich with incredible wildlife. (hurtigruten.com)
  • You'll experience a thrilling mix of wildlife in Central America and the Caribbean. (hurtigruten.com)
  • Your Expedition Team will introduce you to the rich history, cultures, communities and wildlife of Central America in lectures and as your guides on activities. (hurtigruten.com)
  • Get answers to commonly asked questions about our Central American destinations before your expedition cruise. (hurtigruten.com)
  • So, there is a long conversation that has taken place about increasing cooperation between Central America and the Caribbean. (channel5belize.com)
  • Development cooperation has been a central policy theme since the Treaty of Rome in 1957, thus constituting a significant sphere of the EU's foreign affairs. (lu.se)
  • The seismic hazard map of North and Central America and the Caribbean is the concatenation of various national and regional maps, involving a suite of approaches. (annalsofgeophysics.eu)
  • This seismic hazard map of North and Central America and the Caribbean depicts the likely level of short-period ground motion from earthquakes in a fifty-year window. (annalsofgeophysics.eu)
  • COTECC is one of the six regional tennis divisions worldwide, together with the South American Tennis Confederation (Cosat), the African Tennis Confederation (CAT), the Asian Tennis Federation (ATF), the Tennis Federation of Oceania (OTF) and the European Tennis Association (TE). (wikipedia.org)
  • The Central American and Caribbean Games ( CAC or CACGs ) are a multi-sport regional championship event , held quadrennial (once every four years), typically in the middle (even) year between Summer Olympics . (wikipedia.org)
  • The System also includes a group of Regional and Extra regional Observers, from Latin America, Europe and Asia. (caribjournal.com)
  • Similar findings between empirical and general frameworks show that disaster shocks in Central America and the Caribbean have only a significative impact in the short-run regional business cycle. (iadb.org)
  • This programme is to be applied within regional frameworks and concentrates funding at first on Action Plans to aid the Caribbean, Central America, south-east Asia and Bangladesh. (nzdl.org)
  • This regional program works with partners across Latin America and the Caribbean to make high-quality sexual and reproductive health care more widely available-and to build movements for abortion rights and repeal of restrictive laws. (ipas.org)
  • Regional Office of WHO, Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB) has called on Member States to ensure their active participation in the WHO Reform process. (who.int)
  • Small island states in the Caribbean have been applying a similar model to protect themselves against far more likely and more devastating risks caused by tropical storms and earthquakes. (worldbank.org)
  • It limits the financial impact of catastrophic hurricanes, earthquakes and excess rainfall events to Caribbean and Central American governments by quickly providing short-term liquidity when a parametric insurance policy is triggered. (ccrif.org)
  • The first two editions of the Games were known as the "Central American Games" at the time, but the edition lineage continued after the inclusion of the Caribbean nations in 1935. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sharing surplus COVID-19 vaccine doses with Caribbean and Central American nations will help protect vulnerable populations, promote U.S. diplomatic efforts, and help restart an important industry within the American travel and tourism service sector. (fmc.gov)
  • Mesoamerica and the Caribbean are two of the world's biodiversity hotspots, including the world's second largest reef and the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System. (iucn.org)
  • With less than 2% of the world's territory, Mesoamerica accounts for 12% of the world's biological wealth, 8% of the world's mangroves and 31% of its surface declared as Natural Protectead Areas, while the Caribbean islands are one of the largest endemic biodiversity centers in the world, including the uniqueness of 50 per cent of its plant life due to its geography and climate. (iucn.org)
  • Embark on a Central America and Caribbean cruise rich in culture, history and biodiversity. (hurtigruten.com)
  • This paper introduces students to the transnational history of North America from the Caribbean and Central America north through Canada, from 1750 to the present. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Concepts such as the 'Global North' and the 'Global South' are easily explored through the historical divergences between tropical and temperate North America. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Within the US itself, North/South divisions exemplified the stark divergence that sometimes occurred within a single polity, divisions that sparked what remains the deadliest conflict fought on North American soil-the US Civil War. (cam.ac.uk)
  • Coordinate and organize campus cultural and language events that highlight the Latino community of Central Connecticut (film festivals, music and literature, publications/platforms). (ccsu.edu)
  • En Janssen tu salud es ESENCIAL para nosotros. (janssen.com)
  • Boosting financial inclusion has long been essential in Latin America and the Caribbean, where more than 200 million people lack access to financial services and large numbers of citizens are unable to open a bank account because of poverty, geography, discrimination, and lack of proper identification. (iadb.org)
  • Breathtaking places, beautiful sights, delicious cuisines, pulsating music and hospitable people, Central America and the Caribbean caters to everyone. (centreholidays.com)
  • He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. (harvard.edu)
  • The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility SPC (CCRIF SPC) will implement the Second Central America and Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Project. (ccrif.org)
  • CCRIF SPC is a segregated portfolio company, owned, operated and registered in the Caribbean. (ccrif.org)
  • Our Central America and Caribbean cruises take you where the big ships can't: sleepy fishing villages, small coastal communities and remote islands. (hurtigruten.com)
  • Central is committed to providing a safe and healthy campus environment for students so that they can fully engage in the total educational experience at CCSU. (ccsu.edu)
  • After a tough decade, a cautious optimism has returned to parts of Latin America. (americasquarterly.org)
  • The acknowledged importance of joining forces to achieve closer relationships in seeking collaboration and benefitting from the talents of both organizations' willingness to work together to expand trade and all declarations that promote economic-commercial exchanges in the Caribbean. (caribjournal.com)