May 23rd, 2013
ROME, 22 May, (IPS) – The Inter Press Service (IPS) international news agency launched on Wednesday 22 May the new website of its Spanish news service IPS Noticias.
“For IPS, languages are an essential aspect to add value to news in the information system, especially with the themes that IPS covers and analyses: development, civil society and the new scenarios in the global South,” said IPS Director General Mario Lubetkin. Read more »
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Global, Providing news and content
May 17th, 2013
IPS is organizing together with ASCA and two Italian NGOs, Cospe and Un Ponte Per, the conference “Information for fair and sustainable development: a new way of cooperation between news agencies and civil society”, on May 18, 2013, during the X international conference-exhibition on sustainability best practices, to be held at Fortezza da Basso, in Florence, Italy. Read more »
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Civil society, Europe & Mediterranean, Global, Sustainable development
May 3rd, 2013
IPS is pleased to share with you its contribution to the recently published CIVICUS report “The State of Civil Society 2013”. The full report includes nearly 50 contributions from experts and civil society leaders from around the world, highlighting good practices and challenges on the horizon for citizens and civil society globally.
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Civil society
May 3rd, 2013
IPS in partnership with Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), with the support of IFAD, are pleased to inform journalists of its new ‘Rural Poverty Reporting’ training workshop, to be held from June 4 – 6, in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The workshop aims to highlight covering climate change as a development story – by creating a venue both for discussing climate change as a development reality for rural communities, and for discussing it in a newsroom environment in order to tell better, more effective stories around it linked to everyday lives. Read more »
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Agriculture, Asia & Pacific, Capacity building, climate change, Globalization and the South
April 15th, 2013
The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), two longstanding IPS partners, invite the world’s youth to submit original and creative videos about migration, diversity or social inclusion to the PLURAL + competition. Young people up to 25 years of age can submit their videos until 30 June 2013.
Visit the PLURAL + website for more details about the competition and how to enter.
Get inspired by reading IPS stories from around the world about how Civilisations Find Alliances and Migration.
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Dialogue among civilizations, IOM, migration, OIM
