Justice

Overseas Lunch Program Questioned

Washington Post | March 1, 2002 | By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post Staff Writer Shortly before leaving office, President Bill Clinton decreed the government should spend $300 million in the coming year on a laudable goal -- providing school lunches to poor children overseas.

World Leaders Call for Increased Commitment of Resources by International Community to Combat Poverty

AScribe Newswire | February 22, 2002 At a high-level forum at The Carter Center, leaders and representatives of developing countries and international development organizations called attention to the lack of progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty.

Mayor""s Killing in Brazil State Churns Politics and Stirs Rage

New York Times | By LARRY ROHTER | January 21, 2002 The shooting death of the opposition mayor of a city bordering Sao Paulo, the latest in a series of attacks on leftist officials in Brazil's largest state, has plunged the country into a crisis that affects both public security and presidential politics.

World Economic Forum Takes Left Turn, As Participants Assail American Policies

Associated Press | by JIM KRANE | 02/04/02 They came in solidarity with this terror-wounded city. But since they arrived, speaker after speaker at the World Economic Forum has lambasted America as a smug superpower, too beholden to Israel at the expense of the Muslim world, and inattentive to the needs of poor countries or the advice of allies.

President Bush to Participate in Monterrey Conference on Financing for Development

For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary January 30, 2002 Statement by the White House Press Secretary The President will travel to Monterrey, Mexico to participate in the International Conference on Financing for Development on March 22 and to meet with President Fox.

New York Cops Vow to Crush Violent Protest at World Economic Forum

Village Voice | by Richard Esposito | January 23 - 29, 2002

A Field Guide to Anti-WEF Protest in New York City

Village Voice | by Ariston-Lizabeth Anderson After months of lying low, defenders of civil liberties, opponents of the war in Afghanistan, and anti-corporate-globalization activists are determined to come out and be heard by some of the WEF's most influential business leaders. Here's how you can join the demonstrations. NEW YORK CITY SOCIAL FORUM

Argentina Pays Debt--To Democracy

By Eduardo Galeano It started with an explosion of violence. A few days before Christmas, a crowd of hungry people began looting supermarkets. Among them, as is usually the case, were a few criminals. As the chaos spread and blood was spilled, the Argentine president spoke on television. What he said, more or less, was: Reality does not exist; the people do not exist.

WEF Foes Won""t Nix Violence in N.Y.

The Washington Times | January 16, 2002 | Betsy Pisik; THE WASHINGTON TIMES NEW YORK - Anti-globalization protesters, who have shied from the spotlight in the months after September 11, plan to return in force with a massive display of resistance at a meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) here in two weeks.

NGOs Prepare for the World Social Forum

Inter Press Service | January 9, 2002 | By Brahima Ouedraogo BAMAKO - Activists in Africa are preparing for the World Social Forum to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the end of the month.