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Institutionals
:: May 1ro, 2008 Conference at the Book Fare: ¿Beijing 2008 = World Cup 78? Ricardo López Göttig, CADAL's Associated Researcher participated in a conference at the Book Fare organized by the newspaper La Gran Epoca. In this opportunity, Axel Borgia, Director of the newspaper, presented the book "9 Comentarios sobre el Partido Comunista", base on the Chinese Comunist Party.
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:: April 10, 2008 PLEA 2008 started 2008 "Latin American Program of Academic Extension" was launched. It consists in a program of ten classes in charge of different speakers on subjects related to the areas CADAL deals with: Democratic governance, economics and institutions; Press freedom; and International promotion of human rights.
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:: April 7, 2008 Campaign "Gold Medal for Human Rights" With motive of the Olimpic Games in Beijing 2008, CADAL launched a campaign "Gold Medal for Human Rights", consistent of an advertisement with an illustration donated by Alfredo Sábat. Moreover, the advertisement has a text reminding the anthem of the Football World Cup 78 in Argentina, organized by the last military dictatorship.
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:: March 31, 2008 CADAL invited as associated institute to Proyecto Plataforma Democrática The Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) was invited to be an associated institute to Proyecto Plataforma Democrática, a consortium formed by Instituto Fernando Henrique Cardoso (San Pablo, Brazil), Centro Edelstein de Investigaciones Sociales (Río de Janeiro, Brazil) and Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo (Santiago de Chile). The objective of Proyecto Plataforma Democrática is to create a plural space dedicated to strengthen Latin America's capability of taking part in an active and autonous way in the process of globalization through the production of knowledge, public debate and dialogue between diffferent sectors in society.
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:: March 24, 2008 CADAL urges not to vote in favor of Ziegler's nomination at UN In a letter sent to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of seven democratic countries member of the UN Council of Human Rights, the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) expressed its concern with regards to the possible election of Jean Ziegler next March 26, 2008, candidate proposed by Switzerland as member of the Consulting Committee at the Human Rights Council. CADAL is concerned because Mr. Ziegler's nomination does not follow the requirement of honesty, indepedence and impartiality required for that job.
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:: March 22, 2008 CADAL opposes Marino's designation as ambassador in Cuba Regarding the Presidential proposal of Juliana Marino as Argentine ambassador in Cuba, Gabriel Salvia, Chairman of the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) stated that “it would be a backlash in the relations with the island for the person chose has a well known history in the defense of the remaining dictatorship in the region”.
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:: March 5, 2008 CADAL proposes to organize a reception in Argentine embassies every March 24 In a letter sent to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, Jorge Taiana, CADAL proposed that department that every March 24 a reception should be held in every diplomatic representation of Argentina abroad with the most important local referents in the promotion and research in human rights.
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:: February 29, 2008 First Meeting of the Working Group on Haiti On Friday, February 29, Gabriel Salvia - Chairman of CADAL - took part in the first meeting of the project "Rebuilding Haiti. Strengthening the capabilities of Argentina for an efective cooperation".
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:: February 27, 2008 CADAL celebrated its 5th. Anniversary CADAL celebrated its 5th. Anniversary with the participants of the presentation of the 8th edition of the research report "Local Level Journalism and Democracy Indicators in Latin America".
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:: February 21, 2008 CADAL backs Argentine President regarding her critics to dictator Obiang The Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) backs Argentine President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, regarding her critics to Equatorial Guinea's Dictator, Teodoro Obiang Ngume. In this regard, Gabriel Salvia, Chairman of CADAL, stated that "after the response made public by Equatorial Guinea, it is important to support the gesture of international commitment to human rights of the Argentine President".
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:: February 1ro, 2008 CADAL publishes its Annual Report 2007 The current report includes a summary of the main activities of the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) organized during 2007: the events organized in Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Santiago de Chile; the Documents and Research Reports published during this period; the articles published by the media; and a selection of the most important Institutional News.
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:: January 25, 2008 Gabriel Salvia had a meeting with Vice-President Cobos With the intention of fostering a political-administrative reform of the Federal Legislative Branch, Gabriel Salvia, Chairman of CADAL, met with Ing. Julio Cobos, Vice-President of Argentina, at his office in the Federal Senate. Salvia highlighted the importance of improving public service by hiring by competition all the permanent staff. On this regard, the head of CADAL, told Cobos that an integral reform of the Federal Government "should begin at home", that is, at the Federal Congress, specially in the Senate, where the number of temporary personel by legislator outnumbers by three times those at the House of Representatives.
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:: November 19, 2007 Letter to the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights in concern of the agreement signed with the Cuban dictatorship. The letter signed by Gabriel Salvia, Chairman of CADAL, was sent to the following officers: Dr. Alberto Juan Bautista IRIBARNE, Minister of Justice and Human Rights; Dra. Marcela Miriam LOSARDO, Secretary of Justice; Dr. Alejandro Walter SLOKAR, Secretary of Criminal Policy and Penitentiary Affaires; Dr. Eduardo Luis DUHALDE, Secretary of Human Rights; and Dr. Rodolfo MATTAROLLO, Undersecretary of Promotion and Human Rights Defense. For the jurist Ricardo Manuel Rojas "this kind of agreements have the negative effect of giving a republican appearance that the totalitarian regime of Cuba does not have".
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