Map Of Bolivia

I resided in Bolivia photographing from 1997-99, supported by a Fulbright Scholarship. I exhibited my photographic work with the help of the U.S. Embassy, the Goethe Institute, Ministry of Culture, and Union Latina. Five solo exhibitions were held: three in La Paz, one in Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz, I returned to the U.S., printed and exhibited my thesis exhibition and received my MFA degree in photography from Penn State University. More recently, I was one of three artists invited to represent Bolivia in Imagenes de las Americas an official exhibition for the Summit of the Americas 2001 Quebec City, Canada. ... [Read More]

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Fulbright Gallery : Katarin Parizek

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South America – Educational Advising Centers – EducationUSA

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Policy and Program Developments

Overview for 2000For U.S. international antidrug programs, the year 2000 was one of important accomplishments and serious challenges. Long-term cooperation with our Western Hemisphere allies continued to bear fruit. We successfully attacked drug crop expansion, enhanced interdiction efforts, worked to arrest leaders of drug trafficking syndicates, and narrowed the opportunities for the drug trade to launder drug profits. At the same time, we provided our partners essential training assistance to strengthen their law enforcement and judicial systems, while helping them with programs to reduce drug consumption in their own countries. The year’s most noteworthy accomplishment was to keep the total Andean coca crop from expanding significantly. Six years of joint ... [Read More]

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Juan Somavia, "Eliminating Child Labor: A Moral Cause and a Development Challenge" , eJournal USA: Economic Perspectives, May 2005

CHILDREN IN MINING AND QUARRYINGAn estimated one million children work in small-scale mining and quarrying around the world. These children work in some of the worst conditions imaginable, where they face serious risk of injury, chronic illness, or death.In surface and underground mines, children work long hours, carry heavy loads, set explosives, sieve sand and dirt, crawl through narrow tunnels, inhale harmful dust, and work in water—often in the presence of dangerous toxins such as lead and mercury. Children mine diamonds, gold, and precious metals in Africa; gems and rock in Asia; and gold, coal, emeralds, and tin in South America.In rock quarries located in many parts of the world, children face safety and health risks from pulling and carrying heavy loads, inhaling ... [Read More]

-- January 2005, week 4

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Department of State Washington File: Text: Treasury Secretary Summers on Progress in IMF Reform

We have advocated substantial changes in the scope and nature of the conditionality for IMF and other international official support: to place greater emphasis on the importance of market opening and liberalization of trade; to focus more on the development of the institutions and policies that will allow markets to operate; to take better account of the impact on the poor of economic adjustments; to increase national ownership and participation in reforms; and for the Multilateral Development Banks to place greater weight on environmental, labor and social issues in the design of programs. ... [Read More]