About TERRAVIVA Europe

TERRAVIVA Europe (TVE) is the European edition of the TERRAVIVA group of periodicals published by IPS-Inter Press Service - The Global News Agency (IPS). The TVE is put out by IPS EUROPA | IPS EUROPE.

IPS is the only independent global news and communication agency of its kind that operates from Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, the Caribbean and Latin America. It is owned by IPS Inter Press Service International Association which has a consultative status with the ECOSOC. IPS is also recognised by the OECD as one of the "main international non-governmental organisations official contributions to which may be reported as (bilateral) ODA".

IPS is civil society's leading news agency, an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath. It is an indispensable instrument for creating public awareness about the Millennium Development Goals agreed in September 2000 by the heads of state and government from around the world during the Millennium Assembly of the United Nations in New York.

TERRAVIVA group of publications includes IPS UN Journal TERRAVIVA from the UN headquarters in New York, TERRAVIVA Africa Weekly from IPS Africa regional centre in South Africa's commercial capital Johannesburg and TERRAVIVA en Español from IPS Latin America regional centre in Uruguay's capital Montevideo.

The global publisher of TERRAVIVA group of periodicals is Mario Lubetkin, the Director-General (DG) of IPS with headquarters in Rome. Ramesh Jaura heads the IPS European regional centre IPS EUROPA | IPS EUROPE based in Berlin. Peter Dhondt manages IPS Brussels office. The IPS DG's management representative for the TERRAVIVA group of publications is Alejandro Kirk.