Full Coverage: Suriname
07.08.2006
A Associação de Líderes de Aldeas Indígenas de Suriname, Stichting Sanomara Esa, a Associação de Autoridades dos Saramaka e o Programa Forest Peoples apresentaram quatro relatórios conjuntos para o Comitê de Eliminação da Discriminação Racial nas Nações Unidas (Comitê CERD).
Leia maisFrom: ADITAL, Agencia de Información Fray Tito para América Latina Related topics/regions: [Environment] [Indigenous rights] [Civil society] Image: The water ablaze, Suriname © Runningman Communications
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24.11.2003
The STIBULA Foundation and IICD are working on a joint project to enhance ICT-based learning in Suriname. The project targets the poorest schools and aims to improve the education in Suriname by enriching it with ICTs and new ways of learning.
more...From: International Institute for Communication and Development Related topics/regions: [Development] [Children] [Education] [ICT] [Media] |
10.02.2003
While the shadow of unresolved rights violations in the past continues to haunt Suriname, new abuses are being committed by the country's security forces, according to Amnesty International.
more...From: Amnesty International - International Secretariat Related topics/regions: [Human rights] [Justice and crime] |
14.10.2002
Suriname was plunged into total darkness for 48 hours last week after its hydroelectric dam sprung a leak, flooding the control room. Engineers plugged the leak but Surinamese remain in the dark over the cause and responsibility for the incident, reports Rachael von der Kooye.
more...From: Caribbean Conservation Association Related topics/regions: [Energy] |
28.01.2002
National Forum of NGOs and CBOs for sustainable development.
more...From: National Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations against Poverty and for Sustainable Deveopment Related topics/regions: [Capacity building] [Poverty] [Shelter & housing] [Environment] [Human rights] [Gender] [Civil society] |
23.01.2002
National Forum of NGOs and CBOs for sustainable development. Foro nacional de Organizaciones civiles para el desarrollo sostenible.
more...From: National Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations against Poverty and for Sustainable Deveopment Related topics/regions: [Capacity building] [Poverty] [Shelter & housing] [Environment] [Human rights] [Gender] [Civil society] |
28.05.2001
The leatherback turtle - which has survived for a hundred million years - is now facing extinction unless recent conservation efforts in Guyana succeed in turning the tide.
more...From: WWF International Related topics/regions: [French Guiana] [Guyana] [Animals] [Biodiversity] |
25.04.2001
Age-old knowledge of the world's botanical riches is being probed in the hope of finding cures for AIDS and cancer. But, as Matthew Brace reports, the practice is often far from ethical.
more...From: Geographical Related topics/regions: [Belize] [Fiji] [Samoa] [Biodiversity] [Health] [AIDS] [Knowledge] [Science] Image: Medicinal ylang-ylang plant © Geographical
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13.11.2000
Strong weekend rumours of an impending coup in neighbouring Suriname, have added to the worries of the 10-week- old Ronald Venetiaan administration as it struggles to set things right in the former Dutch colony on South America's Caribbean coast.
more...From: Inter Press Service Related topics/regions: [Politics] [Justice and crime] |
07.09.2000
It returned to office just three weeks ago to find an economy virtually in tatters, the treasury empty, some diplomats not paid for more than a year and a health and education system in deep crisis.
more...From: Inter Press Service Related topics/regions: [Justice and crime] |
12.06.2000
Suriname and Guyana are boosting security forces along their shared border as tensions over ownership of an oil-rich section of the Corantine River heightened last week.
more...From: Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep Related topics/regions: [Guyana] [Land] [Geopolitics] [Security] |
23.02.1999
Less than three weeks before it hosts a series of high level regional meetings - including the half-yearly summit of Caribbean Community leaders next week - Suriname is facing imminent collapse.
more...From: Inter Press Service Related topics/regions: [Geopolitics] |


