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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
 Peru
Peru, Massachusetts Peru is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 821.
Peru, Vermont Peru is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 416.
Peru, Nebraska Peru is a city located in 2000 census, the city had a total population of 569.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/peru.html   (988 words)

  
 National Unity (Peru) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
National Unity (Spanish: Unidad Nacional) is a Peruvian political party.
It is considered Peru's third largest Political party founded in 2000 by Lourdes Flores Nano.
The party participated in the 2001 presidential election, 8 April 2001, its candidate, Lourdes Celmira Rosario Flores Nano, won 24.3 % of the vote.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unidad_Nacional   (140 words)

  
 National Unity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
National Unity Governments are coalition governments made up of all or most parties in a parliament.
In Canada, debates over Quebec separatism are often termed "national unity" questions, particularly by federalists.
National Unity is the name of political parties in various countries -
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Unity   (119 words)

  
 Democratic Front of National Unity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Democratic Front of National Unity (in Spanish: Frente Democrático de Unidad Nacional), was a political party in Peru founded in 1984 in order to launch the presidential campaign of the ex-president Francisco Morales Bermúdez.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_Front_of_National_Unity   (81 words)

  
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 Andrew Clem ~ Peru
Luis Castañeda (of the National Unity party) won the mayoral election in Lima with 41.2%, unseating incumbent Alberto Andrade (of We Are Peru), who only received 30.3%.
Peru is pursuing a criminal trial of Vladimiro Montesinos and is negotiating with Japanese officials to secure the extradition of former President Alberto Fujimori, to stand trial in Peru on charges or corruption and murder.
Peru's teachers' unions are heavily influenced by Marxists, including hard-core Maoists, and have a long history of engaging in lengthy politically motivated strikes, often resorting to violence.
www.andrewclem.com /LatinAmerica/Peru.html   (4141 words)

  
 Peru (04/05)
Peru is the world’s second-largest producer of silver, sixth-largest producer of gold and copper, and a significant source of the world’s zinc and lead.
Peru's distinct geographical regions are mirrored in a socioeconomic divide between the coast's mestizo-Hispanic culture and the more diverse, traditional Andean cultures of the mountains and highlands.
Peru is a source of both natural gas and petroleum, although the country is a net energy importer.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35762.htm   (4295 words)

  
 Peru
Peru is a multiparty republic that recently emerged from a decade of authoritarian government and is undergoing a process of democratic transformation.
Alejandro Toledo of the Peru Posible party won the presidential runoff election with approximately 53 percent of the vote and was inaugurated in July.
The National Initiative on the Rights of the Child is the largest NGO of its kind and coordinates the work of 27 groups concerned with the problems of children throughout the country.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/wha/8263.htm   (18754 words)

  
 Contemporary Review: Peru's presidential election and the war with Ecuador.@ HighBeam Research
Peru's history shows that national unity is achieved in times of war.
Peru's skirmish with Ecuador in 1995 was started with the same motives that brought the two countries to a short-lived war in 1941.
Peru's presidential election and the war with Ecuador.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:17381420&refid=holomed_1   (222 words)

  
 CNN.com - Fujimori's power tenuous as Peruvian Congress prepares vote - November 15, 2000
He faces criminal complaints in Peru ranging from directing state-sponsored death squads to skimming profits from narcotics trades during his 10 years as Fujimori's top aide.
He left Peru this week to take part in a trade summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Brunei Wednesday and Thursday.
Finance Minister Carlos Bolona was widely quoted in newspapers Wednesday as saying that Peru's political crisis would make it difficult for Fujimori to last until July.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/11/15/peru.ap   (709 words)

  
 Morocco and Peru sign cooperation agreements :: moroccoTimes.com
Peru was the first Latin American country to withdraw in October 1996 its recognition of the puppet “Sahrawi” republic, self-proclaimed by the Polisario front.
Peru is the third leg of the Monarch's tour that already took him to Mexico and Brazil.
“We are following closely the progress accomplished by Peru during your term of office,” he told Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo whom he praised for his “sound management of macroeconomic policies which have enabled the country to achieve one of the highest growth rates in the region despite unfavourable conditions.”
www.moroccotimes.com /special/article.asp?idr=114&id=1175   (548 words)

  
 Polity IV Country Report 2003: Peru
Rising popular dissent led Fujimori to announce on 16 September 2000, that he intended to hold new national elections in April 2001, in which he would not be a candidate.
Toledo abolished the National Intelligence Council (CNI) on 22 March 2004.
In this climate of reflection and reconstruction, social tensions regarding land issues and the status of the indigenous population have resurfaced.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Per1.htm   (808 words)

  
 Women, Peace and Security News: Peru
Miss Flores, the candidate of the centre-right alliance, National Unity, is the only woman in Peru's presidential race; and, as the April polling day draws near, voters seem increasingly to like her image of integrity.
In January 2002 then health minister Luis Solari legislated March 26 ‘National Day of the Unborn Child.’ In May 2003 his successor Fernando Carbone issued a ministerial regulation requiring public health care providers across Peru to keep a “registry of conceived persons” by demanding that women report their pregnancies “from the moment of conception”.
December 4, 2001 - Though international treaties on women's rights are recognized in Latin America and laws are on the books, courts in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru don't always uphold them.
www.peacewomen.org /news/Peru/news.html   (1320 words)

  
 Toledo
Toledo denied accusations he ordered his followers to forge thousands of signatures in 1998, said Xavier Barron, a congressman from the National Unity party, Peru's third-largest, and a member of the four-man committee.
Peru's Toledo Testifies Before Congress on Fake Signatures Accusations
Map Toledo District The Toledo District is the southernmost district in the nation of Belize, with the district capital in the town of Punta Gorda, Belize.
bonose.com /Toledo-20.html   (646 words)

  
 FindLaw's Writ - Leavitt: Peru as Our Crystal Ball?
The main governmental opposition leader said that Peruvian politicians would have to be "imbeciles or suicidal" not to recognize that the ruling would require absolute national unity to craft appropriate and constitutional solutions.
Fifth, only after a change of national leadership in Peru was the political groundwork ready for a sweeping judicial pronouncement condemning the prior government's anti-terrorism measures.
A decade later, Peru is beginning to recognize and undo the harsh measures taken during its own war on terrorism.
writ.news.findlaw.com /commentary/20030605_leavitt.html   (2164 words)

  
 IPI - International Press Institute
Throughout the year, Peru’s journalists were subjected to a systematic campaign of persecution as President Alberto K. Fujimori sought to control the press in anticipation of his bid for an unprecedented third term in office.
During the coverage of the National Independence Day and the presidential swearing-in ceremony on 28 July, sixteen journalists were the target of various acts of intimidation from both police authorities and protestors participating in street protests.
The charges were brought at the request of the National Intelligence Service and the military judiciary, which accused journalists and opposition members belonging to the association of basing their reports on fake documents.
www.freemedia.at /wpfr/Americas/peru.htm   (12322 words)

  
 CNN.com - Peru's Toledo sees future national unity government - November 15, 2000
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Peru's main opposition leader, Alejandro Toledo, said on Wednesday he was shifting his central focus toward forming a government of national unity after crisis-hit President Alberto Fujimori leaves office.
Peru's justice minister has dismissed the allegations as "nonsense."
Fujimori's problems began in September when his spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, was shown in a video apparently bribing a legislator to side with the government.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/11/15/peru.toledo.reut   (519 words)

  
 Learn more about List of national anthems in the online encyclopedia.
A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is formally recognized by a country's government as their state's official national song.
During the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, with the rise of the national state, most countries adopted a national anthem, which in some cases coexists with other commonly sung patriotic songs.
The names of nations that no longer exist, or are not independent states but nevertheless have official anthems, are italicized.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_national_anthems.html   (894 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch World Report 2003: Americas: Peru
Congress issued a statement of concern, and APRA and National Unity (Unidad Nacional, U.N.) legislators presented bills to award the accused an amnesty.
Between April and September, Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission held televised hearings in rural towns across the country, devoted to the testimonies of victims of "disappearances," extrajudicial executions, torture, rape, and massacres that took place from 1980 to 2000.
While Peruvians had high hopes that the government of President Alejandro Toledo would make a decisive break with the authoritarian policies of his predecessors, his administration lacked a clear vision of human rights and often seemed to be improvising in the face of conflicting pressures.
www.hrw.org /wr2k3/americas9.html   (2494 words)

  
 americas.org - Leftist Ex-President Advances
In the race for 120 congressional seats, unofficial results gave 41 to Toledo’s Peru Possible party, 29 to the Apristas, 15 to National Unity, 12 to the Independent Moralizing Front, 6 to Union for Peru–SI, 6 to Somos Peru and 3 to former President Alberto Fujimori’s Cambio 90–New Majority.
The count, pronounced fair by international observers and the national election monitoring organization Transparencia, showed García ahead of third-place finisher Lourdes Flores Nano of the rightwing National Unity coalition.
In a surprise comeback, former President Alan García of the Peruvian Aprista Party tallied 26 percent of the vote April 8 in the first round of the nation’s presidential election.
www.americas.org /item_9963   (219 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background
Presently the island is a National Wildlife Refuge run by the US Department of the Interior; a day beacon is situated near the middle of the west coast.
Iraqis voted on 30 January 2005 to elect a 275-member Transitional National Assembly that will draft a permanent constitution and pave the way for new national elections at the end of 2005.
The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), which maintains a strong presence throughout the country, completed a disarmament program for former combatants in late 2004, but the security situation is still volatile and the process of rebuilding the social and economic structure of this war-torn country remains sluggish.
www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2028.html   (16146 words)

  
 Chile, Peru, and Bolivia at War
As a man that sacrificed for “nationalunity (used against “subversive” doctrines)
Construction of National Heroes: The case of Arturo Prat
Indians were considered an obstacle for national development
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~caguirre/399_6.htm   (462 words)

  
 Terrorism - Terrorist Organizations
U.S. nationals were kidnapped in New Delhi in 1994 in an earlier HUA effort to secure his release.
MAIN ANTI-U.S. nationals were kidnapped in New Delhi in 1994 in effort to secure the release of imprisoned HUA leader Maulana Masood Azhar.
Peru's counter-terrorist program has diminished the group's ability to carry out terrorist attacks.
www.cdi.org /terrorism/terrorist-groups.cfm   (6613 words)

  
 WheretodoResearch.com - Major Democratic Conservative Parties in Democracies
National Union of Christian and Muslim Democrats (LAKAS)
at least four percent of the seats in national parliaments are included below.
Denotes party is a member of Americas Democrat Union, a regional body of the
www.wheretodoresearch.com /International/Conservative_Parties.htm   (394 words)

  
 Peru's Second-Class Citizens - Christianity Today Magazine
The United Nations reports that 70 percent of all crimes reported to the police in Peru involve wife beating.
Rape is an epidemic in this city of 70,000 in Peru's poorest state and nestled in a remote Andean valley.
Teaching youth in Huánuco, Peru, churches and schools about God's design for sexuality was the aim of a 2000 project of Lima-based evangelical legal aid and human rights group Peace and Hope Association.
www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2004/130/42.0.html   (908 words)

  
 americas.org - Toledo Wins First Round
In second place was former President Alan García Pérez (1985–1990) of the social democratic Peruvian Aprista Party, with 24–26 percent, ahead of Lourdes Flores Nano of the rightwing National Unity coalition, with 21–23 percent.
Exit polls showed populist candidate Alejandro Toledo of the Possible Peru coalition winning between 40–43 percent of the vote in Peru’s April 8 general elections.
Peruvians also elected all 120 members of the single-chamber Congress in this round of voting, which was called a year after Toledo lost to then-President Alberto Fujimori in a race widely believed to be tainted by fraud.
www.americas.org /item_6776   (256 words)

  
 2251.htm
The right-wing National Unity Party won nearly 14 per cent of the votes and got 17 seats in the Congress.
The National Electoral Commission assigns a seat to each constituency, then distributes the remaining seats in proportion to the number of electors in each constituency.
Mr Toledo's centrist Peru Posible, a young party with no common ideology, won 26 per cent of the vote and 45 seats.
www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/2251.htm   (1202 words)

  
 Foreign & International  - South Africa
Contains legal documents relating to the creation and running of the TRC, including the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, No. 34 of 1995 and its various amendments, plus the Constitutional Court ruling on the validity of the TRC.
The treaty series is based primarily on the United Nations Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, and is arranged according to the categories found in the United Nations Treaty Series.
intellectual property and civil aviation, for which the United Nations does not act as depositary, have also been included.
www.law.nyu.edu /library/foreign_intl/southafrica.html   (300 words)

  
 Leaving the Shadows: Peru Seeks a Sense of National Unity - Ben Barber
Leaving the Shadows: Peru Seeks a Sense of National Unity
For several days this festival in Cuzco, Peru, has been drawing steadily larger crowds.
Borne along by dozens of sturdy villagers, the icons will be carried around to the crowd's noisy cheers and the lively cacophony of the bands that will march behind.
www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1998/March/Sa17465.htm   (288 words)

  
 The Absense of National Unity: An Interview with Bassam Shaka : SF Bay Area Indymedia
Shaka says that the Palestinian cause must be centred on national independence and freedom by binding the Palestinian struggle to its national and human elements.
Referring to the upcoming elections, Shaka said, "The purpose of the elections is to commit to the Oslo agreements, while the Palestinian national agenda opposes Oslo." Shaka says that despite the success of Western governments to impose Oslo as a de facto policy, it did not get the necessary legitimacy.
They need to correct the national path and get the PLO back to its original role and refuse modifications to its original goals and activities." Shaka says that Sharon's "project" aims to implement the Oslo agreements from an Israeli perspective.
www.indybay.org /news/2005/08/1763249.php   (1315 words)

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