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The only party in the
region
with a concrete political agenda is El Salvador's right-wing ARENA party, which has won three elections in a row and appears likely to win a fourth.
Squalor persists while competitive markets press the
region
to cut costs on the backs of the poor.
If he succeeds, a moderate democratic left will become a realistic prospect in the
region.
Here the most immediate threat is not posed by America or NATO, but by the European Union, whose enlargement means that member states will soon surround Russia's Kaliningrad
region
on all sides.
This is a vital condition for keeping the
region
Russian, and special EU transit visas should therefore be granted to Kaliningrad's residents in order to ensure simplified travel through adjacent EU countries.
In July 2014, the United States and the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia’s finance, oil and gas, and defense technologies sectors, in response to its military aggression in Ukraine’s Donbas
region.
According to standard estimates, annual labor productivity growth in the North Atlantic
region
averaged 1% from 1800 to 1870, 2% between 1870 and 1970, and 1.5% since then – with a possible slowdown in the past decade.
But the world is changing: the Asia-Pacific
region
is increasingly influencing global developments, economic and otherwise.
The problem with the Europeans is that all they have are declarations and speeches--a policy toward the
region
that is rich in lofty rhetoric, but poor if not starved in the capacity to implement anything concrete.
1705)For the sake of human rights and peace in the region, my hope is that the international community will bear witness to these circumstances, consider Judge Goldstone’s report in its entirety and press for accountability for the most serious crimes.
One year after the “little green men” – Russian soldiers without military insignias – began to appear, first in Crimea and then in the Donbas region, the situation in eastern Ukraine remains both stalemated and volatile.
A fragile ceasefire remains in place in most parts of the contested region, but fighting continues to break out in some areas, and many worry that a new Russian-backed offensive could soon be launched around the strategic port of Mariupol.
Ukraine has lost control over both the
region
and its border with Russia, and it faces the constant possibility that the conflict could heat up once again, as Georgia’s did in 2008, when Russia sent in troops to support the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s neighbors are left feeling vulnerable, worried that Russia’s efforts to destabilize the
region
may cross yet another border.
In the Middle East, for example, both Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution and the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 were preceded by unprecedented oil-price booms, implying greater prosperity in the
region.
For example, in the northwestern
region
of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a 100-year-old woman is running in the general election against former cricket star Imran Khan.
That honor belongs to a different history and
region.
So observers should not just be asking how far similar events will spread across the region; they should be asking themselves what kind of changes might be coming at home in the face of similar, if not quite so extreme, economic pressures.
The women were sterilized or forced into having abortions in order to stabilize the population increase in the
region.
In November, representatives of member states of the World Health Organization’s Europe
region
met in Bucharest, where they signed the “European Declaration on the Health of Children and Young People with Intellectual Disabilities and their Families.”
The declaration applies the CRPD in a specific geographic
region
(Europe), for a specific target group (children with intellectual disabilities), and for a cluster of specific rights (the rights to health and to live in the community with appropriate support).
There are 53 states in the WHO-Europe region, which stretches from Iceland to Uzbekistan, and 48 have signed or ratified the CRPD.
In 2005, the last year for which we have statistics, UNICEF estimated that “at least 317,000 children with disabilities in the
region
live in residential institutions, often for life.”
The 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis undermined its legitimacy in Asia, as many governments in the
region
believed that the crisis was being exploited by the United States and US financial institutions.
Today’s world is one of fast-changing currents, where a
region
flourishes one day, and the next its factories collapse economically as if hit by hurricane Katrina.
The negotiations would discuss the range of options open to each country and
region
– from CCS to solar, wind, and nuclear power – and would sketch a timetable for a new generation of low-emission automobiles, recognizing that market competition as well as public financing will set the actual pace.
Democracy movements in Lebanon, Egypt, and elsewhere in the
region
must face the challenge of incorporating Islamist parties into democratic systems.
Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were predicated, at least in part, on spreading freedom; similarly, the Middle East Partnership Initiative is supposed to make democracy the centerpiece of American assistance in the
region.
As citizens of a
region
that endured both Nazi and Soviet occupation, we know all too well the danger of euphemism.
It is time to face reality: the Kurdish
region
in the north is functioning in a reasonable way, and it has even been able to allay Turkey’s fears that its existence will aggravate that country’s own Kurdish problem.
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