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Address by Fidel Castro to the Millennium Summit

REPUBLICA DE CUBA MISION PERMANENTE ANTE LAS NACIONES UNIDAS ADDRESS BY DR. FIDEL CASTRO RUZ, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA TO THE MILLENNIUM SUMMIT New York, September 6, 2000 Excellencies:

Hungry in Times of Plenty

By Devinder Sharma

Human Reality Hidden in New Free Trade Deal

By AZIZ CHOUDRY* | September 6, 2000 The Singapore and New Zealand Governments are selling their new free trade and investment agreement as an abstraction, unlinked to people's lives. On Batam, an Indonesian territory 40 minutes from Singapore by boat, I saw the human realities that lie behind the deal.

WTO Director General Hits Back at U.N. For Critical Human Rights Report

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U.S. Labor Rights Routinely Violated, Says Human Rights Watch

U.S. Labor Rights Routinely Violated, Says Human Rights Watch Workers' basic rights are routinely violated in the United States because U.S. labor law is so weakly enforced and so filled with loopholes, says Human Rights Watch in a new report released on August 31. "The cards are stacked against workers in the U.S.," said Kenneth Roth, Executive Director. "The U.S.

Trade: TRIPs Regime at Odds with Human Rights Law, Says UN Body

SUNS #4728 Tuesday 29 August 2000, south-north development monitor SUNS

Trade: WTO Concerned over Human Rights Appraisal Report

SUNS #4728 Tuesday 29 August 2000 south-north development monitor SUNS [Email Edition] publisher: third world network, 228 macalister road, 10400 penang, malaysia chief editor: chakravarthi raghavan, rm c504, palais des nations, ch-1211 geneva 10, switzerland; tel:(4122) 7344274, fax 7401672; email suns@igc.apc.org

UN Warns of Conflict Between Intellectual Property Rights and Human Rights

August 22, 2000 PRESS RELEASE Contact: Kristin Dawkins, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Tel: 612-870-3410; Fax: 612-870-4846; Email: kdawkins@iatp.org UNITED NATIONS BODY WARNS OF CONFLICTS BETWEEN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS COULD INFLUENCE PATENTS FOR DRUGS, BIOTECH SEEDS

United Nations: US Riled by Economic Sanctions Report

Geneva, Aug 18 (IPS/Gustavo Capdevila) -- Efforts made to limit the powers of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Human Rights have not produced the effects desired by some, and instead have led to resolutions critical of economic embargoes, prompting an angry reaction from the United States.

Report for UN Labels WTO a "Nightmare"

World Bank Development News, 14 Aug. 2000 A United Nations-appointed study team calls the World Trade Organization a ''nightmare'' for developing countries and suggested the body should be brought under UN scrutiny, Reuters and IHT report(8/12, p. 13).