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Brazilian President Wins IPS Award
MEDIA: Lula a "Tireless Advocate" for the Poor and Landless
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who rose from a poor childhood to lead a growing economic powerhouse that has placed the ideal of inclusive prosperity at the centre of its development policies, received the Inter Press Service (IPS) International Achievement Award 2008 Monday.
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Brazilian President Wins IPS Award
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
"IPS has brought greater pluralism and diversity to the international press. For 44 years, IPS has given voice to the voiceless. IPS is more than crucial than ever in the creation of South-South dialogues and alternatives to the existing alliances," said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
MEDIA: Lula a "Tireless Advocate" for the Poor and Landless
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who rose from a poor childhood to lead a growing economic powerhouse that has placed the ideal of inclusive prosperity at the centre of its development policies, received the Inter Press Service (IPS) International Achievement Award 2008 Monday.
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Brazilian President Wins IPS Award
Mario Lubetkin
"We would like to honour you because you fought side by side with the landless and deprived, and for your efforts in initiating and supporting policies towards social inclusion and peaceful resolution of conflict, and the full exercise of basic human rights and freedoms, not only in Brazil but among sister nations in Latin America," said IPS Director General Mario Lubetkin.
MEDIA: Lula a "Tireless Advocate" for the Poor and Landless
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who rose from a poor childhood to lead a growing economic powerhouse that has placed the ideal of inclusive prosperity at the centre of its development policies, received the Inter Press Service (IPS) International Achievement Award 2008 Monday.
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Brazilian President Wins IPS Award
Enrique Iglesias
"His political career is a good demonstration of the virtues of democracy," said Enrique Iglesias, secretary-general of the Ibero-American Conference, a political, cultural and economic cooperation initiative in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. "The virtue of giving the chance of becoming president of one of the biggest nations on Earth to a worker with a long history of leadership in a workers' union," said Iglesias, who gave the keynote speech at the ceremony.
MEDIA: Lula a "Tireless Advocate" for the Poor and Landless
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who rose from a poor childhood to lead a growing economic powerhouse that has placed the ideal of inclusive prosperity at the centre of its development policies, received the Inter Press Service (IPS) International Achievement Award 2008 Monday.
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US-Iraq troop deal "crushing defeat" for Bush
Gareth Porter: Bush admin is desperate for troop agreement as end date of UN
authorization nears.
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The Iraq war debate
Gareth Porter: McCain and Obama are not listening to Iraqis
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The Iraq war debate
Gareth Porter: Anti-war or only anti-Iraq war?
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Kandahar braces for Taliban offensive
Taliban and NATO forces both assert that they are in control
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Hard right neocons and AIPAC
Jim Lobe: The origin of the Zionist, Neocon, Christian Right alliance (Part 1 of 2)
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Who funds AIPAC?
Jim Lobe of IPS on the role of AIPAC (2 of 2)
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ALBANIA
BECKONS
Following up on the IPS case study of Albania as a nation looking for
development through tourism, while also respecting ecological needs, Ilva
Tare takes a look at moves to change the image of Albania. The first of a
two-part video report on Albania.
Case Study: Albania - Cultural and Environmental Tourism |
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Another World Is Possible: World Social Forum 2008
The IPS TerraViva team of journalists from around the world covered the WSF Global Day of Action, January 26. A virtual edition of the newspaper with global background articles, exclusive interviews and opinion columns written by renowned international figures is available at: http://ipsterraviva.net/TV/wsf2008/.
TerraViva is an independent publication of IPS. This edition is produced in cooperation with the World Social Forum International Council, the support of Oxfam-Novib and with the invaluable assistance of Amarc (International Association of Community Radios) and Pulsar News Agency.
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The Taliban could be changing, Azita Rafht, member of parliament for Badghes Province in Northern Afghanistan, says in an IPS interview.
AFGHANISTAN: Militancy Spreads to Northern Provinces
Afghan Divide - IPS Special Coverage
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Between Civilisations -- A Dialogue. IPS puts a set of five questions to
Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini, Vice-President of the Comunita Religiosa
Islamica, and to Shlomo Ben-Ami, Vice-President of the Toledo International
Centre for Peace.
Q&A: 'People Who Work Every Day For Harmony Do Not Make Headlines'
Interview with Yahya Sergio Yahe Pallavicini
Q&A: "Religion Is The Private Sphere, Not The Public"
Interview with Shlomo Ben-Ami, former Israeli Foreign Minister
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Q&A: "It Can Be Hard to Deal with Subtle Xenophobia"
Interview with Peter Schatzer, International Organisation for Migration
VENICE - With waves of opposition to tides of immigrants in Europe, Peter Schatzer has his job cut out. And seeing that the Mediterranean is the favoured route for migration into Europe, whether documented or not, he is at the forefront of presenting the human face of migration before political opposition to it.
Schatzer, director of the regional office for the Mediterranean and chief of mission in Italy and Malta of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), talked to Sanjay Suri from IPS at a meeting on the role of communication in the alliance among civilisations organised in Venice by IPS together with the IOM and the Province of Venice.
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Q&A: "In Most Conflicts We Know What Needs to Be Done"
Interview with Martti Ahtisaari, Chairman of the Crisis Management Initiative
VENICE - There is hardly a trouble-shooter in the world today more trusted than Martti Ahtisaari, Chairman of the Crisis Management Initiative. Kosovo, the disputed southern province of Serbia, is the latest challenge he has taken on.
He has done this as head of the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), an independent, non-profit organisation that works for "sustainable security" and "combines analysis, action and advocacy." The Helsinki-based organisation was founded in 2000.
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Q&A: "Where Is the Democracy in International Relations?"
Interview with Abdelwahab Derbal, head of mission of the Arab League in Brussels
VENICE - It's about the oldest dispute around, which is good enough reason to hear more on it from those who can influence a possible resolution. So when Abdelwahab Derbal, head of the mission in Brussels of the League of Arab States speaks of his anger over the Palestine issue, these may be words to listen to, whichever side of the divide (if any) you are on.
Derbal speaks to Sanjay Suri from IPS of his anger over the U.S. position in the Middle East, and of the need for dialogue – that shows some understanding of civilisation and culture issues. He himself was participating in an inter-civilisation dialogue organised in Venice last week by IPS together with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and Venice province.
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Q&A: "If It Is Globalisation, It Must Be Everybody's"
Interview with Amartya Sen, Nobel economist
LONDON - The "war on terror" is not everybody's language, nor for that matter is "globalisation", says Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen. Nor is anyone right to think that religious radicalism is really an Islamic problem, he says.
Such views made Sen, an Indian, a natural choice to lead the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding in its search for civil paths to peace. The group's report titled "Civil Paths to Peace" was launched in London last week.
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