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Environmentalists Cool to Trade Policy

The Washington Post / Reuters Environmental activists said yesterday a White House plan for making environmental protection a priority in future trade agreements was a step in the right direction but did not go far enough.

UN Meeting on Development Financing Opens in Jakarta

UN Newservice 2 August -- Amid renewed financial anxiety throughout Asia, the President of Indonesia today told a high-level United Nations finance meeting that securing a common identity for Asians was the key to solving the continent's development problems.

EU Denounces US Trade Barriers

Agence France Presse | August 1, 2000 BRUSSELS - Companies in Europe continue to face tariff and regulatory barriers when they export to the United States, the Commission of the European Union objected on Tuesday in a report attacking US tactics in a so-called banana war.

A Human Face for Globalization

DAWN (Pakistan), Opinion, By Sabur Ghayur

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.

SADC Summit Expected to Give Green Light for Free-Trade Area

Agence France Presse WINDHOEK, July 31 (AFP) - Presidents of the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) are expected to give the go-ahead for a regional free trade area during a summit in the Namibian capital on August 6 and 7, the group's acting executive secretary said Monday.

Anti-Globalisation Activists Demand New WTO Agreements; Advise WTO to Save Patients, Not Patents

THE NEWS INTERNATIONAL / Shahina Maqbool ISLAMABAD: Anti-globalisation activists on Saturday organised a demonstration against the "secret" visit of the Director General World Trade Organization (WTO) Mike Moore to Pakistan and called for a review of the international trade agreements in accordance with the needs of the developing countries.

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.

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.

Hunger-Striking Protesters Slam Globalisation at ASEAN Meet

Agence France Presse / Joshua Kurlantzick BANGKOK, July 25 (AFP) - While Southeast Asian leaders debated the merits of globalisation inside a plush Bangkok hotel Tuesday, thousands of impoverished villagers protested nearby, saying the new global economy has wrecked their lives.