Stories written by Diana Cariboni
Diana Cariboni has been the co-editor-in-chief of IPS since june 2013. Before that, she was IPS associate editor-in-chief for three years. She has also served as the regional editor of IPS Latin America since March 2003. Working together with the editor in chief, she is responsible for the content of the IPS World Service and overall journalistic production, particularly in Spanish. Since March 2007, she has served as editor of the award-winning Tierramérica, a weekly service about the environment and sustainable development published by more than 20 Latin American newspapers. She led the teams that reported from the Copenhagen and Cancun climate change negotiations in 2009 and 2010.
Diana has trained dozens of journalists throughout Latin America and taught journalism in the ORT University school of media and communications, Uruguay. In 2007, she was co-awarded the AVINA scholarship for investigative journalism in sustainable development for the project The Unusual Wealth of the Chocó.
She began her career as a journalist in 1992 working for various media outlets in Uruguay, such as El Observador and El País newspapers, and the Sarandí and Setiembre FM radio stations. Cariboni specialises in technology, science and public health. She also worked as a writer on international politics, economy and the environment for Third World Institute publications, a subsidiary of the Third World Network. She is married and the mother of five children. She was born in Argentina in 1962 and has lived in Uruguay since 1984. She joined IPS in 2001.
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Fighting poverty requires, among other things, tools for measuring the phenomenon in all its complexity. It cannot be defined by having an income of one or two dollars a day, nor is there any advantage in distinguishing the very poor from the "almost" very poor, says a new report.
The third Human Development Report on Uruguay by the UNDP addresses the country from two apparently conflicting perspectives: the economic and social impoverishment registered in recent years, and the potential for an economy based on innovation and knowledge.
It's 7:00 PM and has already been dark for a while. Although the southern hemisphere winter has not yet officially begun, the cold on the streets of the Uruguayan capital attests otherwise.
Catholic women waiting for the day when they too can be ordained as priests will undoubtedly have a longer wait ahead of them following the recent designation of conservative Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI.
The number of women exercising political power in Latin America is limited. Some adopt stereotypically male practices, while others fight back against "machista" conventions, like the use of sexist language.
New Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez stated that his government is not "socialist", but rather a national "democratising" project aimed at reducing social and economic inequalities.
The inauguration of Uruguay's new leftist government marks a watershed in the history of this small South American nation and completes a political map in the region that differs markedly from the neo-liberal scenario that prevailed in the 1990s. The sensation of change was colourfully visible Tuesday as tens of thousands of Uruguayans took to the streets of Montevideo to celebrate the historic occasion, which also marked the 20th anniversary of the restoration of democracy after the 1973-1985 military dictatorship.
The inauguration of Uruguay's new leftist government marks a watershed in the history of this small South American nation and completes a political map in the southern cone region that differs markedly from the neo-liberal scenario that prevailed in the 1990s.
The Industrial Revolution in the Western world, responsible for much of the pollution now threatening the planet's very existence, was fuelled by the drive for profit.
In Afghanistan "there is intimidation, violence, and serious security problems," but "the most difficult thing is to ask the questions without which a reporter cannot exist. Asking why and what for," says Argentine journalist Ricardo Grassi, who has set out to help create an independent press in that war-torn south central Asian country.
For the first time in the history of Uruguay, the left - a coalition of parties created 33 years ago - won the national elections Sunday amidst a festive but tranquil climate in this South American country, which has a strong civic culture.
For the first time in the history of Uruguay, the left - a coalition of parties created 33 years ago - won the national elections Sunday amidst a festive but tranquil climate in this South American country, which has a strong civic culture.
Colombia, caught up in an armed conflict and with a hard-right government that tends to clash with rights groups and other civil society organisations, nevertheless has fairly advanced sexual and reproductive rights policies.
The legalisation of abortion is necessary but not sufficient to put an end to the myriad deaths and injuries caused by unsafe abortions, says a study on six Asian countries released Wednesday in the British capital.
"I think Islam can be very liberating for women if truly followed," said young Palestinian activist Rana Abu Ghazaleh in an interview with IPS on the conflict in the Israeli-occupied territories, the rise in fundamentalism, and women's rights.
"I think Islam can be very liberating for women if truly followed," said young Palestinian activist Rana Abu Ghazaleh in an interview with IPS on the conflict in the Israeli-occupied territories, the rise in fundamentalism, and women's rights.
The links put in place by Operation Condor, created by the military regimes ruling South America in the 1970s to cooperate in the elimination of dissidents, still exist, Chilean Senator Carmen Frei told IPS on a visit to the Uruguayan capital.
Catastrophes on the scale of Sunday's fire in a supermarket in Paraguay are not a product of unfortunate coincidences and unlucky timing, in which a bunch of people with terribly bad luck end up trapped in a tragedy.
Argentina has a new ally in its fight with its private creditors: a coalition of British activists who want the IMF to stop meddling in the negotiations. To bring that about, they plan to "soften up" a key figure, Britain's Treasurer Gordon Brown.