Full Coverage: Suriname
08/07/2006
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: [Environment] [Indigenous Rights] [Civil Society] Image: The water ablaze, Suriname © Runningman Communications
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02/03/2004
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.
Read moreFrom: Agencia Latinoamericana de Información Related: [Venezuela] [Peru] [Guyana] [French Guiana] [Ecuador] [Colombia] [Brazil] [Bolivia] [Environment] [Indigenous Rights] |
11/24/2003
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.
Read moreFrom: International Institute for Communication and Development Related: [Development] [Children] [Education] [ICT] [Media] |
02/10/2003
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.
Read moreFrom: Amnesty International - International Secretariat Related: [Human Rights] [Justice and Crime] |
10/14/2002
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.
Read moreFrom: Caribbean Conservation Association Related: [Energy] |
01/28/2002
National Forum of NGOs and CBOs for sustainable development.
Read moreFrom: National Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations against Poverty and for Sustainable Deveopment Related: [Capacity Building] [Poverty] [Shelter & Housing] [Environment] [Human Rights] [Gender] [Civil Society] |
01/23/2002
National Forum of NGOs and CBOs for sustainable development. Foro nacional de Organizaciones civiles para el desarrollo sostenible.
Read moreFrom: National Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations against Poverty and for Sustainable Deveopment Related: [Capacity Building] [Poverty] [Shelter & Housing] [Environment] [Human Rights] [Gender] [Civil Society] |
05/28/2001
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.
Read moreFrom: WWF International Related: [French Guiana] [Guyana] [Animals] [Biodiversity] |
04/25/2001
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.
Read moreFrom: Geographical Related: [Belize] [Fiji] [Samoa] [Biodiversity] [Health] [HIV/AIDS] [Knowledge] [Science] Image: Medicinal ylang-ylang plant © Geographical
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11/13/2000
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.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service Related: [Politics] [Justice and Crime] |
09/07/2000
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.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service Related: [Justice and Crime] |
06/12/2000
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.
Read moreFrom: Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep Related: [Guyana] [Land] [Geopolitics] [Security] |
02/23/1999
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.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service Related: [Geopolitics] |



