ARGENTINA CALLS ON UNSC TO ORDER END OF HOSTILITIES IN GAZA
NEW YORK, UN - In a press conference from the Government House, Foreign
Minister Héctor Timerman (right photo) read a letter written by President Cristina Fernández
de Kirchner in which she urges the UN Security Council “to order the immediate
end of hostilities” to Gaza.
In a personal letter addressed to the head of the UN Security Council,
Hardeep Singh Puri, 
Fernández de Kirchner (right photo) urges him to “urgently call for the
Council to convene in order to put an end to this round of violence that
strengthens those who wish to impede the creation of a Palestine state that can
peacefully coexist with Israel, as the president of the Palestine Nationals
Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, promised he would do.”
Fernández de Kirchner (right photo) urges him to “urgently call for the
Council to convene in order to put an end to this round of violence that
strengthens those who wish to impede the creation of a Palestine state that can
peacefully coexist with Israel, as the president of the Palestine Nationals
Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, promised he would do.”
She adds that “we will always work in order to avoid armed conflicts and
support peaceful solutions, as well as the defence of the human life over
geopolitical and economic interests. This situation, however, cannot wait.”
However, the United States has blocked a U.N. Security Council call for an
immediate cease-fire in Israel’s weeklong offensive in Gaza against Hamas.
The draft press statement failed to address the root cause of the current
escalation – the continuing barrage of rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel,
the spokeswoman for the U.S. Mission to the U.N., Erin Pelton, said in a
statement.
RAPE VICTIMS STRUGGLE WITH LEGAL ABORTIONS IN ARGENTINA
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Rape victims have a right to abortion under Argentine
law, but the nation's Supreme Court was forced to intervene this week to
ensure that a woman who says she was kidnapped, forced into
prostitution and raped could end her pregnancy.
The case has divided the public and sparked lawsuits in Buenos
Aires, one of Latin America's most socially liberal cities where the
mayor and opposition lawmakers are fighting over what limits if any
should be placed on the procedure.
Abortion is banned in much of Latin America, home to about half the world's Roman Catholics. Argentina is among the countries that allow abortions in cases of rape or when a woman's health is in danger.
The recent controversy began when Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri(above left photo) announced that the city's first legal abortion under a new regulation governing the procedure in rape cases would be carried out on Tuesday.But a civil court judge blocked the abortion at the last minute at the request of a private group.
Anti-abortion activists identified the woman and protested outside her home last week and then again at the hospital where she was to have the abortion. The woman's lawyer, Pablo Vicente, said the hospital chaplain was among the protesters.
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OVER 700 RESCUED IN ARGENTINA FROM HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN 2012
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Over 700 victims where rescued from human trafficking in Argentina in the first seven months of 2012, according to a Justice Ministry report.Most of the people were rescued from sexual slavery and sweatshops. Officials from the Rescue and Support of People affected by human trafficking Office took part in over 300 raids, in which 327 victims were over 18 and the rest were children and teenagers.The report also showed that 344 people were Argentine and 368, foreigners.
Meanwhile, the Office’s coordinator, Zaida Gatti, explained that some of the methods use to lure unsuspecting victims include fake job offers for models and nannies.Nonetheless, kidnapping is also used, but less frequently.- Most of the victims are women and teenagers living in poverty and in order to support their families accept jobs ignoring the real goals of those offering fake jobs.
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