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Friday, February 1st, 2008Quite a few Temas Blog readers noticed the absence of new posts for several weeks. I was fully occupied with work day-and-night on the final stages of the total revamp and re-launch of my main site, temasactuales.com Although work continues on the Spanish and Portuguese versions (coming soon!), the burden has lightened enough that I […]
Argentine Consumer Law Congress
Sunday, November 4th, 2007Next week the Argentine Institute of Consumer Law (Instituto Argentino de Derecho del Consumidor – IADC) and the Judiciary Power of the province of Rio Negro (RN) will co-host next week (Mon.-Tues. 12-13 November) the tenth national congress on consumer law in the RN capital of Viedma. On Monday evening (at 18:00 hours) the congress […]
Regional Economic Integration and Consumer Protection
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Next week the Research Group on International and Comparative Consumer Law (Groupe de recherche en droit international et comparé de la consommation – Gredicc) of the University of Quebec at Montreal (Université du Québec à Montréal – UQÀM) will be hosting an interesting international conference on "Regional Economic Integration and Consumer Protection in the Americas […]
Argentina’s First Consumer Defense School
Monday, October 8th, 2007Synopsis in English: The province of San Juan has launched what is believed to be Argentina's first "consumer and users defense school." The school was created by the Production and Economic Development Ministry's Directorate of Consumer Defense in cooperation with the Education Ministry's Planning Directorate, with support from the College of Magistrates, the Office of […]
A Huge Donation for Brazil’s Chief Consumer NGO / Uma donação grande para a ONG brasileira principal de defesa do consumidor / Una donación grande para la ONG brasileña principal de defensa del consumidor
Thursday, August 16th, 2007This grant from the MIF is a major coup for the Brazilian Consumer Defense Institute (IDEC), probably increasing their operating funds by 50% and cementing their lead as Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC) best funded consumer group. Parabéns, IDEC e Marliena Lazzarini (a Presidente do Instituto). To understand better the importance of IDEC and […]
Brazil Creates a National Consumer Defense School
Saturday, August 11th, 2007Synopsis in English: Brazil’s Justice Ministry (MJ) just announced the creation of a National School for Consumer Defense (ENDC). MJ has overall responsibility for implementing the Consumer Code and coordinating the the National Consumer Defense System (Sistema Nacional de Defesa do Consumidor – SNDC) created by the Code (click here for a brief explanation of […]
Consumer Protection Pages Added to the Temas Toolbox
Thursday, May 17th, 2007As promised during my “Introduction to Consumer Protection in LAC” series, I have adapted and amended those posts to convert them into standalone pages now easily accessible through the Temas Tools link directory in the righthand column. These are: Overview of Consumer Law in LAC Overview of Consumer Authorities in LAC Overview of Consumer NGOs […]
More Sections Added to The Reading List
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007As promised (albeit a couple of days later than planned!), more sections have now been added to the Temas Recommended Reading List: Consumer Protection Environmental Governance Environmental Law Hazardous Substances Industry I have also added new entries to the sections on Climate Change and Energy. Coming in the next couple of days will be the […]
Consumer Protection in LAC V – A Sample Panorama of LAC Consumer News
Friday, May 11th, 2007When I started this series, I promised a five-part overview of consumer protection in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). So far I’ve looked at how consumer agencies and consumer NGOs in the region celebrated World Consumer Rights Day, how intergovernmental bodies have influenced the development of consumer law in the region, the panorama of […]
Consumer Protection in LAC IV – Consumer NGOs in LAC
Monday, April 23rd, 2007To make up for missing World Consumer Rights Day (March 15), I promised to give you a five-part overview of consumer protection in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In Part I, I looked at how consumer agencies and consumer NGOs in the region celebrated the Day. In Part II-A I examined how intergovernmental bodies […]