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).

03.02.2004 Con la firma de un compromiso por la vida "con el fin de garantizar nuestra continuidad como pueblos" concluyeron en Quito las reuniones del Consejo de Coordinación y Consejo de Dirección de la Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (COICA) que agrupa a organizaciones de Ecuador, Colombia, Brasil, Perú, Bolivia, Surinam, Venezuela, Guyana y Guyana Francesa.

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.

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.

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.

28.01.2002 National Forum of NGOs and CBOs for sustainable development.

23.01.2002 National Forum of NGOs and CBOs for sustainable development. Foro nacional de Organizaciones civiles para el desarrollo sostenible.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.