October 10 was the World Day Against the Death Penalty. IPS intensified its coverage of the issue with stories that highlighted the failure of the systems that administer the ultimate punishment, from feature stories about DNA proving innocent people have been executed; to intimate profiles of people either who have been put to death or are on death row mistakenly.
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IPS Asia-Pacific has selected its group of fellows for the 2006-07 cycle of the Imaging Our Mekong programme — 21 of them, consisting of 12 working on general cross-border issues and eight working on avian flu H5N1 virus as a transboundary issue.
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UN Democracy Fund - IPS is delighted to be among the first recipients of a grant from the new UN Democracy Fund. Only 125 out of more than 1,300 applications were successful so we did well.
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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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The first issue of ‘Crime and Justice’, a monthly newsletter as part of the Death Penalty Abolition project funded by the European Commission, was published with close coordination by the regional director who is also the coordinator of the entire project. IPS technical director Walter Garcia and project part-time editor Alison Langley contributed their share.