WARSAW, Nov 12 (IPS) - These are busy days in the Polish capital Warsaw, even if it doesn't show. The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 19 has opened at the National Stadium, while on the other side of the river Wisla the Polish far right gathered for their annual march on Independence Day on Monday.

KIGALI, Nov 12 (IPS) - When Rwandan designer Colombe Ituze Ndutiye began drawing at the age of six, she thought she would grow up to be a cartoonist.

MANILA, Nov 12 (IPS) - Despite the government's early warnings and evacuation of up to 800,000 people from vulnerable areas, the category 5 - the highest level - Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda to Filipinos) has left some communities and coastal zones in the central Philippine islands of Visayas in complete ruins.

WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (IPS) - Countries in Africa's Great Lakes region are moving too slowly on an international plan to certify the sourcing of "conflict minerals", researchers here are warning, a failure that could threaten the entire certification process.

, Nov 11 (IPS) - Threatened by rising seas, some of the world's small island developing states (SIDS) are demanding that the U.N.'s new set of Sustainable Development Goals place a high priority on the protection of oceans and marine resources.

SANTIAGO, Nov 11 (IPS) - Ongoing efforts to determine the causes of the deaths of high-profile Chileans - singer-songwriter Víctor Jara, former presidents Eduardo Frei Montalva and Salvador Allende, and Nobel Literate Prize-winner Pablo Neruda – indirectly bring visibility to thousands of other victims of Chile's 1973-1990 dictatorship.

GEORGETOWN, Nov 11 (IPS) - Guyana is engaged in a balancing act to save its rainforest, regarded as a living treasure, from the destructive activities of miners digging their way to another kind of treasure buried beneath this fragile ecosystem.

ROME, Nov 11 (IPS) - Eight decades ago, during the Great Depression, newly elected U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced the New Deal consisting of a number of mutually supporting initiatives of which the most prominent were:

ROME, Nov 11 (IPS) - A sense of urgency brought on in recent years by food price volatility inspired collective action to reduce the likelihood of further price spikes and food supply shocks.

CAJÍO, Cuba/RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 11 (IPS) - The extinction of a single species (a fish off the coast of Cuba, a bird in the Brazilian forest) creates a void that can trigger a whole series of repercussions, from the alteration of ecosystems to increased hunger.