United Nations

UN Commission to Set New Safety, Trade Standards on Food Security

Agence France Press | June 26, 2003 Experts from around the globe are to gather under UN auspices next week to adopt new standards in food safety, with biotechnology, intensive farming and refinement becoming major public health issues, the UN's food and agriculture agency said.

Trade Pact on Gene-Altered Goods to Take Effect in 90 Days

New York Times | By ANDREW POLLACK | June 14, 2003 A new global treaty that imposes restrictions on exports of genetically modified seeds, animals and crops is set to take effect, injecting a new element into already heated international disputes over agricultural biotechnology.

NGO Statement on the Third Intergovernmental Conference on the Cartagena Protocol

NGO Statement Final Plenary Third Intergovernmental Conference on the Cartagena Protocol The Hague - April 26, 2002

Monterrey Consensus Must Become Reality, Annan Tells UN-Bretton Woods Meeting

April 22, 2002 The recent consensus on global development adopted at a United Nations conference in Monterrey, Mexico, must be transformed into reality, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today told key finance ministers from across the world meeting with the UN Economic and Social Council in New York.

General Assembly Adopts Durban Declaration, Plan of Action

The U.N. General Assembly yesterday voted overwhelmingly to approve the declaration and plan of action from last year's World Conference against Racism, following a recommendation from the assembly's Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee.

New Trade Talks Must Address Right to Food, Says Special Rapporteur

SUNS #5089 Thursday 28 March 2002 south-north development monitor SUNS [Email Edition] twentysecond year 5089 thursday 28 march 2002 publisher: third world network, 228 macalister road, 10400 penang, malaysia

U.N. Summit Protesters Hit Streets

AP Online | By JULIE WATSON | March 19, 2002 Even as world leaders kicked off discussions on how to alleviate poverty - a theme anti-globalization activists have pushed for years - a motley crew of corn farmers, masked students and rebel supporters took to the streets denouncing the gathering as more of the same.