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''I am convinced that I could not have attained even half of what this IPS International Achievement Award ascribes to me if it weren't for the power of the press, and organisations like IPS in particular, to convey not only the U.N.'s exhaustively documented shortcomings, but also report on the organisation's invaluable and transformative work.''
Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General, upon accepting the 2006 IPS International Achievement Award
April 2nd, 2008

The Regional Media Forum “Subsidizing the biofuels boom: What consequences for Latin America?”, held on 27 - 28 March, 2008, at the Incae Campus, Alajuela, Costa Rica, was jointly organised by the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI), the INCAE Business School, and IPS Inter Press Service Latin America news agency, as part of an ongoing series of GSI regional media forums designed to lead journalists around the world towards a better understanding of the decisive role that subsidies play in key emerging challenges that face policy makers striving for a more sustainable world. Read more »

More about: Latin America, Projects, Sustainable development
April 1st, 2008

On March 25, IPS Japan was invited to give a formal presentation on IPS at the general assembly meeting of the Japanese Parliamentary Group on Global Poverty Eradication and Development Awareness at Lower House Diet member Building, Tokyo, Japan.

The parliamentary group was founded in 2007 by Mr. Toshiki Kaifu, former Prime Minister of Japan and the Honorary Chairman of the group, currently presided over by Mr. Kunio Hatoyama, Minister of Justice, as chairman. Read more »

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March 11th, 2008

IPS Africa is looking for a bilingual (French/English) regional editor to oversee editorial production on the African continent. The regional editor works from the IPS Africa headquarters in Johannesburg and oversees bureaus in Benin and Kenya as well as correspondents throughout the continent. The successful candidate will oversee planning and co-ordination of the Africa diary including budgeting, overseeing regional and project editors as well as maintaining a network of correspondents, stringers and translators in the coverage area. Read more »

More about: Africa
March 10th, 2008

The phrase ‘Opening Borders’, which appears in this book’s title, also describes what the 21 journalists whose work appear here were doing while reporting on issues that link at least two countries in the Mekong Region. Whether it is writing about the Kunming-Hai Phong railway, delving into perceptions by young Vietnamese and Cambodians of each other’s countries, or analysing the impact of border economic zones, they sought to open their own news borders — by looking at the other side of issues, going beyond usual national perspectives, and stepping far beyond familiar territory and languages. Read more »

More about: Asia & Pacific, Globalization and the South, Projects, Sustainable development
March 5th, 2008

Emily Brown, Mario Lubetkin, Ferial Haffajee, Paula Fray, Prof. Alfred Opubor, Farai Samhungu and Govin ReddyMail and Guardian editor Ferial Haffajee has been appointed as the chairperson of the Inter Press Service Africa board at the annual IPS Africa board meeting in Johannesburg where plans were outlined for increased capacity and growth on the continent. Read more »

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