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Sri Lanka Needs Global Aid Effort to Battle Drought

New York Times | Reuters | August 31, 2001 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka will need a major international relief effort to help more than a million of its people, many of them children, battle its worst drought in half a century, aid agencies said Friday.

Moore Says WTO Mini-Ministerial in Mexico ""Edged Forward""; India Maintains Opposition

International Trade Reporter | Volume 18 Number 35 | September 6, 2001

""Helpers"" Such as IMF Make a Junkie of Argentina

Los Angeles Times | September 5, 2001 | By MARK WEISBROT Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (www.cepr.net) in Washington, D.C.

Globalization""s Diverse Foes: Wide Range of Protesters Unites against IMF, World Bank

Washington Post | September 5, 2001 | by Manny Fernandez

The Stakes ""After Genoa"" Are High

Toronto Globe & Mail | September 5, 2001 | by Naomi Klein Part of the tourist ritual of traipsing through Italy in August is marveling at how the locals have mastered the art of living -- and then complaining bitterly about how everything is closed.

Big Rise in Hunger Projected for Africa

Washington Post | September 4, 2001 | By Karl Vick BANANA HILL, Kenya--Stephen Waithaka, who farms two acres of the rich volcanic soil on the foothills below Mount Kenya, brings in two crops of corn a year, but lives in constant fear of not having enough.

Your Money or Your Life -- US Trade Policy Robs Poor People of Their Health!

Oxfam Great Britain | September 4, 2001 | Anna Mitchell Third World Network, Oxfam International and Health Gap Coalition are launching a global online petition which we hope will demonstrate the strength of global public concern about World Trade Organisation patent rules that put the profits of powerful drug companies before public health in poor countries.

Spooked by G-8 Violence, Rome Rejects Role of Host

Europe: Prime minister promises to find a more isolated venue elsewhere in Italy for a long-planned conference on global hunger. Los Angeles Times | September 4, 2001 | By RICHARD BOUDREAUX, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Treaties May Curb Farmers"" Subsidies

By Elizabeth Becker New York Times WASHINGTON - Every five or six years Congress argues over how to subsidize farmers. But this time around the forces against big subsidies have a new weapon: the international trade agreements the United States signed promising to reduce those payments.

New Round of WTO Trade Talks Almost Certain: Future Chief

Agence France Presse | September 4, 2001 PARIS - A new round of WTO trade talks is almost certain to be lauched at the next ministerial meeting in November, the future director of the World Trade Organization, Supachai Panitchpakdi, said in a published interview Tuesday.