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Globalisation ""Poverty Solution""

The Press, Christchurch / By PETER LUKE More globalisation, not less, is the solution to world poverty, says World Trade Organisation director-general Mike Moore. He used a speech to Canterbury employers yesterday to answer critics of the institution he heads, and the ideal of free trade - even as the chants of protesters could be heard outside.

The United Nations Sits in Suspicious Company

By Joshua Karliner and Kenny Bruno, International Herald Tribune SAN FRANCISCO - Do the UN flag and the Nike swoosh belong together? Secretary-General Kofi Annan thinks they might. Leaders of nearly 50 of the world's most powerful corporations met with him on July 26 to hail the dawn of a new relationship between the United Nations and big business.

Glickman Announces Additional Food Assistance, Export Credits During Africa Visit

NAIROBI, Kenya, August 3, 2000 - Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman today announced new GSM export credits for Nigeria and additional food assistance for refugees in Kenya.

Program Aimed at Jump-Starting Global School Lunch Program

Feedstuffs / By SALLY SCHUFF, Feedstuffs Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two of America's senior statesmen -- former U.S. Sen. George McGovern and Bob Dole -- last week laid out a vision for a global nutrition program that could help boost U.S. food exports while targeting food aid to school children in the world's neediest countries.

Groups Sue over World Bank Protests

Associated Press / G. Stephen Bierman, Jr. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Protesters claiming the city and federal law enforcement officers violated their rights during demonstrations this spring against international financial institutions filed a suit Thursday seeking monetary damages.

Global Labour Standards Pledge

By Edward Alden in Washington With the prospects for future trade negotiations still clouded by the Seattle protests, governments and multinational businesses are launching a series of initiatives to try to counter the charge that trade liberalisation has threatened environmental and labour standards.

Opposition to Export-Import Bank $1 Billion AIDS Loan

Yesterday, the US Export-Import Bank announced a new initiative to make $1 billion in loans per year to African countries to purchase HIV/AIDS drugs.

Seattle National Lawyers Guild Releases Draft Report On WTO Ministerial

This report "Draft Report on the Level of Paramilitary Response and Loss of Democratic Rights During the Seattle Round of the World Trade Organization Ministerial" pays particular attention to the thinning lines between law enforcement and the military and the adverse effects this loss of delineation is having on civil liberties.....

WTO Report Notes Rights Violations

Seattle Post-Intelligencer / By KERY MURAKAMI / SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Mayor Paul Schell had said he wanted both protesters and delegates to be heard at the World Trade Organization conference last fall.

A Few Advances Toward Applying Anti-Poverty Plans

By Gustavo Capdevila / IPS GENEVA, Jun 30 (IPS) - A week of negotiations by the special session of the United Nations general assembly on the question of fighting poverty led to a few significant results, like the idea of studying new formulas for financing development or for freezing the foreign debt at current levels.