The Nobel Prize winner in economics 2009, Elinor Ostrom, and José Sarukhán, leading Mexican expert on Biodiversity, joined an international seminar and workshop for journalists on Climate Change and Biodiversity on 15 and 16 July in Mexico City. The meetings were organized by Tierramérica, the Latin American communication platform on sustainable development and environment, as the next step of IPS activities in preparation for the COP 16 on Climate Change. Read more »

IPS is delighted to announce new language services distributing translations of IPS news in Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Hebrew. Translation of IPS news into different languages is a vital contribution toward increasing our audiences and bridging divides between peoples. Read more »

Chairman, chairwoman, chairperson or chair? Housewife or homemaker? What is so controversial about contraception, the word ‘family’ or ’sex worker’? Does being gender-sensitive in news mean hiding the genders and sexes of people who appear in them?

Whether you’re a journalist, writer, researcher or a news consumer, some gender-related words are bound to have gotten you wondering about whether, or how, to use them, or what they really mean. Read more »

Elena Madrazo Hegewisch, AECID Director, Mario Lubetkin, IPS Director General and Federico Mayor, IPS Chair.

More than sixty participants joined lively debates on the theme “Communication and Development: policies, networks and technologies”. The seminar was held 5 - 7 July in the University of Santander, Spain as part of a series of joint activities by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and the global news agency IPS Inter Press Service in 2010.

The seminar gave the opportunity to different actors in the field of communication and development cooperation to exchange their experiences and create coordination channels to improve public communication policy. Read more »

The 2010 Annual Ministerial Review (AMR) will turn the spotlight on actions and progress made to meet the global agenda on women’s issues and to mainstream a gender perspective in all sectors. The purpose is to promote practical strategies to advance women’s participation as equal partners of sustainable development, peace and security, governance and human rights.

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