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June 17th, 2007

In June the TerraViva team produced a 16-page newsletter in cooperation with NCDO (Netherlands) on the Millennium Development Goals for SID conference.
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More about: Africa, Asia & Pacific, Latin America, Poverty & MDGs, Providing news and content, Sustainable development
June 15th, 2007

Newly forged media partnership supports over 80 street papers, like The Big Issue, in 34 countries across 6 continents
The International Network of Street Papers (INSP), with its headquarters in Glasgow, actively encourages and supports the setting up of street papers worldwide to create opportunities for people who are homeless and are living in poverty. INSP papers also form a significant global media movement with a combined annual circulation of 32 million copies. INSP’s independent news service project- “The Street News Service” facilitates the sharing of quality copy and pictures between street papers internationally and provides access to news and features from key external partners.
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More about: Dissemination and networking, Europe & Mediterranean, Global, Poverty & MDGs, Providing news and content, Sustainable development
June 13th, 2007

A seminar on climate change was organized in Mexico with UNDP, UNEP. Among speakers were the Italian ambassador and Nobel chemistry laureate Mario Molina, who gave a talk at the opening of the seminar. Extensive participation of Mexican media to the event which had wide repercussion. Around 20 newspapers from different regions of the country participated to the seminar.

More about: Dissemination and networking, Latin America, Poverty & MDGs, Sustainable development
September 11th, 2006

At a press briefing at the UN Secretariat on September 11, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and IPS announced the launch of a new journalistic award: the ‘Latin America and the Millennium Development Goals’ award.
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More about: Capacity building, Dissemination and networking, Latin America, Poverty & MDGs
May 30th, 2006

IPS Latin America is fully implementing the MDG project supported by UNDP. The project envisages the production of MDG related stories, translation to Portuguese, English and other languages produced by IPS to be later distributed globally through its wire.
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More about: Capacity building, Latin America, Poverty & MDGs, Projects, Providing news and content

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