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75 Students Climb Highest Mountain in the Caribbean with RDescubre
The 15th Educational Expedition to Pico Duarte, part of the initiatives of the RDescubre program, was successfully held when 75 students from Liceo Escuela Hermano Miguel from Santiago, Liceo Profesora Mercedes Muñoz, Fe y Alegría from Cambita el Pueblecito (San Cristobal), and Politécnico Ann and Ted Kheel from Veron (Punta Cana), had the opportunity to climb Pico Duarte, the highest mountain in the Caribbean.

GFDD Attends Debate on the Outcome of the Paris Climate Conference with New York Times Environment Correspondent
The Paris agreement made history as the universal climate change agreement, binding every country on earth to take action to reduce their carbon emissions. Unfortunately, the action pledged so far by countries will only cut emissions by about half as much as required to avoid the worst impacts of global warming.

“There is no Statelessness in the Dominican Republic”, an article by Dr. Leonel Fernández
In a recent Amnesty International report entitled “Without Papers, I Am No One: Stateless People in the Dominican Republic,” the authors charge that in our country there is a situation of statelessness.

Leonel Fernández Says Multilateral Organizations Need to Undergo a Process of Profound Change
In his lecture, Fernández also made reference to Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs publications, which predicted that oil prices could reach $20 a barrel this year, due to falling demand in China as well as the appreciation of US currency, the result of devaluation among such currencies as the Chinese Yuan, the Brazilian Real, and others.

GFDD/Funglode 2015 Award Winners Announced
Global Foundation for Democracy and Development Global (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode), through its Cultural Studies Center, announced today the results of the ninth edition of its Annual Awards for Short Story, Poetry, and Documentary for the year 2015.

InteRDom Offers URI Students a 360° Experience in Dominican Republic
In the words of Jody Lisbergerer, Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies of the University of Rhode Island (URI), the InteRDom winter program, which concluded this past Friday, was “a superb trip” characterized by the “hard work and marvelous stewardship of the organizers”. This year’s participants in the InteRDom winter program were 8 political sciences students from URI, who started their journey on January 4th 2016.

GFDD Appointed Chair of UNA USA Sub-committee Promoting Sustainable Environmental Ecosystems
The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), represented by its UN Programs & Outreach Manager, Marc Jourdan, was today appointed Chair of a new sub-committee by the United Nations Association of the United States (UNA USA) Council of Organizations entitled “Support and Promote a Sustainable Environmental Ecosystem.”

Dominican Schools Prepare for “Semana de la Geografía”
A workshop will be hosted on January 19th 2016, at the GFDD/Funglode headquarters, as part of a series of activities preceding the “Semana de la Geografía” (Geography Week), where directors of both public and private educational institutions, natural and social sciences professors, and technicians from the Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic will receive both technical and academic training. The workshop aims at empowering, motivating, and providing the participants with
the necessary tools to better convey to students the content of the information discussed.

“Dominicans in the U.S.,” an article by Dr. Leonel Fernández
It’s estimated that there are currently 1.8 million people of Dominican origin residing in the United States, according to an analysis from the Pew Research Center, a social research fact tank. This analysis considers Dominicans to be those born in the Dominican Republic and classed as immigrants in the United States, or those born on U.S. soil to parents of Dominican origin.

InteRDom Hosts University of Rhode Island Students in Dominican Republic for Winter Program
The InteRDom program began its winter session with a political science group from the University of Rhode Island (URI) today. Students arrived this morning and had an orientation session of the program, which runs from January 4 – 15 in the Dominican Republic. The group this year consists of eight students and one professor.