IPS, in cooperation with the UNDP Albania, organised a journalists’ seminar on June 18-19 as part of the IPS-UNDP Albania project. The seminar was attended by nine Albanian and three IPS journalists from the region: Claudia Ciobanu (Bucharest), Zoltan Dujisin (Budapest) and Vesna Peric Zimonjic (Belgrade). The three spent several days gathering information about Albania and writing reports for the project.

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IPS has been singled out for special mention in a voluminous 810-page new publication, ‘The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations’, published by the Oxford University Press. The comprehensive reference guide on the United Nations (price $150) covers a wide range of political and economic issues related to the world body, including human rights, international peace and security, disarmament, development, peacekeeping and gender empowerment.
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IPS had an outstanding role in the first World Congress on Communication forDevelopment (WCCD) held in Rome, 25-27 October, organized by FAO, the World Bank and the Communication Initiative (CI).
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Mario Lubetkin, the IPS Director General, has been invited to take part in one of the sessions of the international seminar Poverty and Development Within the context of Globalization in Rio de Janeiro, July 25-27, hosted by Celso Furtado international centre and by the Helsinki Process.
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