Thalif Deen wrote, "U.S. Gets as Much as it Gives to the U.N.", United States

Thalif Deen, IPS's U.N. Bureau Chief and Regional Director, has been covering the United Nations since the late 1970s. A former deputy news editor of the Sri Lanka Daily News, he was also a senior editorial writer on the Hong Kong Standard. He has been runner-up, and cited twice for excellence in U.N. reporting, at the annual awards presentation of the U.N. Correspondents' Association.

A former Information Officer at the U.N. Secretariat, and a one-time member of the Sri Lanka delegation to the U.N. General Assembly sessions, he is currently editor of the IPS UN Journal TerraViva. Since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, he has covered virtually every major U.N. conference: on population, human rights, environment, social development, globalisation and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A former Middle East military editor at Jane's Information Group in the United States, he is a Fulbright-Hayes scholar with a Master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University, New York.

Alberto Mendoza wrote "Following the Latest Route of the Central American Migrants" (Original in Spanish) , Guatemala.

Alberto Mendoza was born in Zaragoza, Spain, in 1981. Following an early vocation for journalism, he studied at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and then at the University of Amberes, Belgium. Being surrounded by students of all nationalities sparked an interest in global issues, which led him back to Madrid for studies in international media and the nations of the South.

After working as an intern for several print, radio and television media, he got on a plane to Guatemala with the backing of the Aragón Press Association. There he worked for local media, covering events ranging from the daily violence affecting Central America to issues of development and social justice, not to mention immersing himself in the chaotic world of reggaeton music and the archaeological, natural and ethnic wonders of the region.

He began contributing articles to IPS in April 2006, with a focus on tracking the progress of the Peace Accords and the Millennium Development Goals in Guatemala and El Salvador.

A year after his arrival in Guatemala, he decided to return temporarily to Spain to initiate himself in the ups and downs of political communication in his region's Parliament.

Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail wrote "Rebuilding Not Yet Reality for Fallujah", Iraq.

Dahr Jamail reported from occupied Iraq for eight months, and has reported for IPS for three years. He now covers Iraq in close collaboration with Ali al-Fadhily while he is based in the U.S. Jamail also reports from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and other countries in the Middle East.

Ali al-Fadhily is an Iraqi journalist based in Baghdad who has been reporting for IPS from within Iraq for the last year. His reports have been filed from cities like Fallujah, Ramadi, and Baghdad while most journalists have been unable even to leave their hotels.(Ali preferred not to have his photo used.)