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September 7th, 2012

(L to r) Mario Lubetkin, IPS Director General and FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva during the inauguration of the new IPS offices, FAO headquarters. Credit: ©FAO/Giulio Napolitano.

The signature of the IPS – FAO hosting agreement took place on September 6th at the new IPS offices at FAO Headquarters in Rome. José Graziano da Silva FAO Director General, Marcela Villarreal, FAO Director ESW and Mehdi Drissi, FAO Chief, Media Relations; Rita Mannella, Italian DGCS and Claudio Miscia, Italian Representative to UN Organizations in Rome and Mario Lubetkin, IPS Director General, Sabina Zaccaro, IPS Italian Correspondent and Pablo Piacentini, Director of the IPS Columnist Service were among those present.

Following the ceremony, a group of about 60 IPS friends coming from UN and international organizations, media and civil society celebrated this official inauguration of  the new IPS premises with a glass of wine. Read more »

More about: Agricultura, Civil society, Global, Globalization and the South, Naciones Unidas, Providing news and content, Sustainable development, United Nations
October 25th, 2011

 

IPS, the Secretariat of Information and Communication for Development of Paraguay (SICOM), the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are organizing an international seminar on “Public Media and Society: the Global Experience and the Latin American Path”, on 26 October 2011, in Asuncion, Paraguay. Read more »

More about: Dissemination and networking, Global, Latin America, Naciones Unidas, Providing news and content, United Nations
October 5th, 2011

IPS llevó a cabo sus reuniones anuales 2011 este año en Helsinki, Finlandia del 13 al 16 de octubre

El seminario público tuvo lugar la mañana del 13 de octubre, con el tema de “Migración y Comunicación: Re-equilibrando los flujos de información y el diálogo”, organizado conjuntamente con el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores finlandés y la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM).

Los últimos estimados de la OIM sugieren que los migrantes internacionales podrían alcanzar 405 millones para el 2050 si la migración continúa creciendo al mismo ritmo que en los últimos 20 años. En el contexto de estas proyecciones la mayor parte del discurso en torno a este tema fue negativo. Read more »

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