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Events Taking Place During Climate Change Week At FUNGLODE
The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), will be organizing a week-long series of events concerning climate change. Events will take place May 21-24, 2007 at FUNGLODE’s auditorium. The central theme of the week’s events will be the impacts of climate change and ways in which to mitigate its consequences.

GFDD and FUNGLODE Will Premier 3 Documentary Films During International Week on Climate Change
The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), and the Dominican Chapter of the International Center for Environmental and Sustainable Development Studies (CIEMADeS) will be hosting a week long series of events concerning climate change which will include the screening of the following documentary films: Too Hot Not To Handle, The Great Warming, and MicroMacro Panorama: Climate Change.

International Week on Climate Change at FUNGLODE
The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), and the Dominican Chapter of the International Center for Environmental and Sustainable Development Studies (CIEMADeS), will be hosting various events concerning climate change, May 21-24, 2007, at FUNGLODE’s headquarters in Santo Domingo.

GFDD Launches Its New Website
In response to its program expansion and website visitor feedback, The Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) has reengineered and revamped its website. While in line with its original design, the site has undergone a digital facelift.

InteRDom Participates in the First National Dominican Student Conference at Yale University
The event was organized by Yale’s Dominican Student Association, QuisqueYalies. The association sought to raise awareness about Dominican students living in the United States, and to promote Dominican culture within the Yale community.

InteRDom Student of the Month: Jill Brumier
Jill Brumier is an International Law student at Paris II in France. She has spent the last three months in the Dominican Republic, as part of an exchange program with her university, and has also been carrying-out an internship at the National Commission for Commercial Exchange.

“How to Write Scripts”
Global Foundation for Democracy and Development and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo, in coordination with the Franklin Institute of the United State’s Embassy in the Dominican Republic and the National Film Direction, are hosting the second workshop on the art of script writing.

DPI/ NGO Briefing
GFDD/FUNGLODE attended the United Nations’ briefing: “Encouraging Creativity.” The briefing was held April 26, 2007, at the Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

Responding to the Climate Crisis: Asking the Right Questions
Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) participated in the World Information Transfer, Inc.’s 16th International Conference: “Responding to the Climate Crisis: Asking the Right Questions” organized by World Information Transfer, Inc. (WIT), in collaboration with the Government of the Republic of Croatia, the Government of Ukraine, the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, the UNDP, the UNEP, and UNICEF.

The Dominican Association of the United Nations Inaugurates the D.R. Model United Nations in N.Y.
Global Foundation for Democracy and Development/ Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo in collaboration with Sosúa Marine Park and Counterpart International are organizing the first workshop on: “Participative Processes for the Effective Management of the Sosúa Marine Park.”