News stories by IPS Correspondents, page 70

WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (IPS) - Calling the upcoming Summit of the Americas "a meeting of powerful men with meagre female participation," a group of Latin American and U.S. women called for adequate representation in the Miami summit.

ORLANDO, Nov 16 (IPS) - The U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) Wednesday extended a hand to animation industry giants like Walt Disney to help achieve health and social goals for children.

HAVANA, Nov 16 (IPS) - United Nations High Commisioner for Human Rights, Jose Ayala Lasso, met with Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina on Wednesday for official talks.

ASUNCION, Nov 16 (IPS) - An accusation published in the Paraguayan press of an attempt to bribe employees of the state-run telecommunications companyAntelcofor a contract to install 400 public telephones sparked a scandal in political and business circles.

CARACAS, Nov 16 (IPS) - Venezuela will ask to keep its current Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries production quota, at a ministerial-level OPEC conference to be held in Bali, Indonesia, a government source said on Wednesday.

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 16 (IPS) - The U.N. Security Council Wednesday greeted Iraq's official recognition of Kuwait, but its cautious words indicate the uphill battle Baghdad faces to win the end of a four-year U.N. embargo.

NEW DELHI, Nov 16 (IPS) - INDIA WEDNESDAY EMBARKED ON YET ANOTHER MAMMOTH DEMOCRATIC EXERCISE, WITH A MILLION VOTERS CALLED ON TO DECIDE THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF TWO SMALL STATES AT OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE SUBCONTINENT.

LONDON, Nov 16 (IPS) - Calls by the Rwanda Government for food aid to the internally-displaced inside Rwanda to be cut in order to pressure people to return to their homes has received a mixed response from international relief agencies here.

DUBLIN, Nov 16 (IPS) - Irish parliamentarians began Wednesday to debate the future of the country's coalition government -- and indirectly, the future of the peace process in the disputed province of Northern Ireland.

SAN SALVADOR, Nov 16 (IPS) - Central American indigenous people are focusing on education and the development of exclusively indigenous media in their aim to make known the importance of ethnic cultures.