Radiocarbon dates of sediments from ODP Site 161-976

Multiproxy paleoenvironmental records (pollen and planktonic isotope) from Ocean Drilling Program Site 976 (Alboran Sea) document rapid ocean and climate variations during the last glacial that follow the Dansgaard-Oeschger climate oscillations seen in the Greenland ice core records, thus suggesting a close link of the Mediterranean climate swings with North Atlantic climates. Continental conditions rapidly oscillated through cold-arid and warm-wet conditions in the course of stadial-interstadial climate jumps. At the time of Heinrich events, i.e., maximum meltwater flux to the North Atlantic, western Mediterranean marine microflora and microfauna show rapid cooling correlated with increasing continental dryness. Enhanced aridity conceivably points to prolonged wintertime stability of atmospheric high-pressure systems over the southwestern Mediterranean in conjunction with cooling of the North Atlantic.

Informe No. 21/07, Petición 161/02, Solución Amistosa, Paulina del Carmen Ramírez Jacinto (México)

El 8 de marzo de 2006, durante el 124º período ordinario de sesiones de la CIDH, el Estado mexicano y las peticionarias suscribieron un acuerdo de solución amistosa. En el presente informe, aprobado de acuerdo al artículo 49 de la Convención Americana, la CIDH resume los hechos denunciados, refleja el acuerdo logrado por las partes, los avances logrados en torno a su cumplimiento, y decide su publicación