http://www.choike.org a portal on Southern civil societies http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1729.html Skyrocketing food prices have forced the international financial institutions (IFIs) to articulate responses to the situation. The World Bank has conjured a "New Deal for Global Food Policy" to pump agriculture-oriented loans and programs into Africa and to address emergency financing needs. The IMF has voiced concern over the likely macroeconomic shocks of the food crisis in low-income countries. But the Bretton Woods Institutions must wrestle with a legacy that helped set the stage for diminished food security in many low-income countries. http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/5631.html After several postponements over the year 2007, the Bank of the South was formally created in Buenos Aires on December 9, 2007, when the presidents of the seven countries signed its founding charter. At that time, a 60-day deadline was established for the member countries to define the Bank's Articles of Incorporation. However, it was only recently, on April 25, 2008, in a meeting held in Montevideo that the matter was taken up again by the members. These suspensions and delays may be justified by some important differences that exist among the countries involved in the bank’s founding process and which constitute key factors in this sense. http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/32.html The emergence of alternative international development institutions, new sources of development funding, and alternative mechanisms for financing development are occurring in the context of two major international processes relating to aid: the Accra meeting on the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the Doha meeting on Financing for Development. http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1450.html A century old conflict between the state of Israel and stateless Palestinians, many of whom have been disposed from lands that created the Israel state, has precipitated a argument: Is it preferable to have two states living side by side or have one state from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River that includes Jews and Palestinians without prejudice and with equal rights for all? http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/73.html "Justice for Darfur" is a campaign supported by human rights organisations worldwide, calling on the international community to ensure the prompt arrest and surrender to the International Criminal Court of the persons charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur, Sudan. The campaign is launched on the first anniversary of the issuance of the arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC). http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/2265.html On April 22, Presidents George W. Bush, Felipe Calderón, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper concluded a trilateral summit in New Orleans. The summit marked the fourth meeting of the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), which has drawn fire in all three countries since its proceedings are not open to public participation or congressional oversight and working groups are made up only of government and large business representatives.