On International Women’s Day, IPS news agency talks to Iranian Nobel Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi and new UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova about their efforts to champion women. Both are in New York, with thousands of others, to review what progress women have made since the landmark Beijing Conference on Women, fifteen years ago.

An international team of IPS reporters is in New York where the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women is meeting to review the Beijing Platform of Action, with the IPS global network contributing local voices and viewpoints. Read more »

Every day from Monday 7th December to a special closing edition on Saturday 19th December IPS published an online TerraViva from Copenhagen. You can find them all available for download.

The international IPS team did a tremendous work in less than ideal circumstances, led by one of our new Editors-in-Chief, Diana Cariboni. Managed by IPS Latin America with the largest contingent of reporters coming from IPS Africa, and Darryl D’Monte president of our partner IFEJ strengthening the Asian dimension, the team was South-South co-operation in action, with colleagues from Canada and Romania adding their expertise too.

Kumi Naidoo, Kerry Kennedy, Mohan Munasinghe, Ashok Khosla, Saleemul Huq, Laura Tuck, Bill McKibben and Nnimmo Bassey are just a few of the experts who contributed opinion pieces or granted interviews to TerraViva. Read more »

Adhemar Gabriel Bahadian, Brazilian
Ambassador in Italy, representing his country, and Mario Lubetkin, IPS Director General, signed an agreement on Tuesday 10 March in Rome.

Brazil has signed a new agreement to support IPS activities, especially to strengthen information flows among countries in the South recognising the changing global geography of power. There is a special focus on communication from and between three major democracies in the South: India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA).

The South American country has been a member of the IPS Core Group of donors since 2005. It is the main country of the South in this group, Read more »

PHNOM PENH - A documentary on Myanmar citizens with Chinese ethnicity who cross the border from Yunnan daily to study in a Chinese school. A photo essay comparing the plight of working elephants in Thailand and neighbouring Laos. A feature taking a look at perceptions of China’s dam-building activities in the Lancang River, as the upstream Mekong River is called.

These are a but a sample of the media work produced by 31 journalist-fellows in the 2008-09 cycle of the Imaging Our Mekong programme — that were debated, argued over and turned inside out at a Mar. 25-28 workshop that brought them together in order to review and critique one another’s submissions. Read more »

IPS TerraViva reported from the 2009 World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil, from 27 January to 2 February.

A team of journalists from around the world covered the event for IPS TerraViva, in an effort carried out with the support of Oxfam Novib and ActionAid. Read more »