It is a sad day for women, specially American women, when the Supreme Court blocked a sexual discrimination lawsuit against the retail giant Wal-Mart. With their ruling yesterday, the highest court overturned an earlier ruling which would have allowed 1.6 million female Wal-Mart employees to sue the company for allegedly paying women less than men and for giving them fewer promotions that their male co-workers. Read the rest of this entry »

Having contributed with China to destroy any possibility of reaching a positive deal in Copenhagen that could help our planet, President Obama went back to the US after calling the weak and not binding accord produced “a meaningful breakthrough.” Xie Zhenhua, head of the Chinese delegation, said, “I think we can call Copenhagen a success.” Read the rest of this entry »

Four more days to the end of the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and the tensions must be growing. A lot has been written and talked about this conference and still we don’t know for sure if we are going to get a Treaty worth of its name. Read the rest of this entry »