African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Inter-governmental organization, composed of 25 countries from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula, exchanging experiences and knowledge on state reform and the modernization of public administration in the search for higher levels of social development and equity; news, databases, and information on publications, meetings, projects, agreements, and more; English and Spanish.
Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1953-1958.
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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2 v., "It includes what is probably the most reliable version of the Laws of Burgos in print (the comparable text of the New Laws appears, however, only in fragmentary form). It fills lacunae in the details of imperial policies for encomienda, native labor, slavery, cacicazgos, and ethnosocial relationships, especially of the latter sixteenth century." --Charles Gibson (JSTOR)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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IPPF/WHR works to improve the health of women throughout the Americas, ensure access to family planning, and address the range of sexual and reproductive health issues that affect the integral health of women, men, and adolescents in Latin America and Caribbean region.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Gateway to Latin American information on the Internet, with editorially reviewed directories linking to information by country, region, subject, and on LANIC joint projects, databases, news, and Latin American studies; affiliated with the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin; site versions in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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The Network of Sex Workers Women in Latin America and the Caribbean was founded in 1997 in order to support and strengthen female sex worker organizations in the defense and promotion of their rights in the region. RedTraSex promotes and respects the independence and autonomy of each organization of sex worker women in each participating country.
Willaarts,Bárbara A. (Editor), Garrido,Alberto (Editor), and Llamas, Manuel Ramón (Editor)
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Book, Edited
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2014
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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432 p., Provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human well-being. Focuses on four key themes: setting out the background to water, nature and food in the region; drivers of changing conditions; pressures and challenges; and responses and enabling conditions."
