DEVELOPMENT: Coffee Crisis Leaves Malnutrition in its Wake

Plunging coffee prices means extreme poverty for the people who produce the bean, to the extent that in one coffee-growing region of El Salvador as much as 85 percent of the child population is now malnourished.

DEVELOPMENT: Coffee Crisis Leaves Malnutrition in its Wake

Plunging coffee prices means extreme poverty for the people who produce the bean, to the extent that in one coffee-growing region of El Salvador as much as 85 percent of the child population is now malnourished.

REFUGEES: Shortfall Leaves UNHCR Humanitarian Operations at Risk

Financial shortfalls threaten to interrupt a large portion of the United Nations refugee agency's humanitarian operations in November, creating a cloud of pessimism over the 114 countries and nearly 20 million people that benefit from this international aid.

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Plunging coffee prices means extreme poverty for the people who produce the bean, to the extent that in one coffee-growing region of El Salvador as much as 85 percent of the child population is now malnourished.

DEVELOPMENT: Coffee Crisis Leaves Malnutrition in its Wake

Plunging coffee prices means extreme poverty for the people who produce the bean, to the extent that in one coffee-growing region of El Salvador as much as 85 percent of the child population is now malnourished.

REFUGEES: Shortfall Leaves UNHCR Humanitarian Operations at Risk

Financial shortfalls threaten to interrupt a large portion of the United Nations refugee agency's humanitarian operations in November, creating a cloud of pessimism over the 114 countries and nearly 20 million people that benefit from this international aid.

AGRICULTURE: Seed Patent Regime Detrimental to Poor Farmers

A group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) demands that the government of India halt its efforts to join an international system for patenting plants, a regime, say activists, that harms the farmers in this country and in other developing nations.

HEALTH: Simple Steps Can Rein in Cardiovascular Disease – WHO

Cardiovascular diseases and strokes, which cause the deaths of 12 million people worldwide each year, could be brought under control relatively quickly with simple preventive actions, said the World Health Organisation (WHO) here Friday.

DEVELOPMENT: Multilateral System Needs Deep Reforms, Say Experts

The United Nations and the principal multilateral institutions require profound reforms if they want to repair their imperfections, including their lack of democracy, says a group of international experts.

DEVELOPMENT: Multilateral System Needs Deep Reforms, Say Experts

The United Nations and the principal multilateral institutions require profound reforms if they want to repair their imperfections, including their lack of democracy, says a group of international experts.

FOOD: Rights Rapporteur Says UN System is ‘Schizophrenic’

The United Nations demonstrates schizophrenia in its approaches to agricultural reform and fighting world hunger, says Swiss academic Jean Ziegler, the global forum's special rapporteur on the right to food.

FOOD: Rights Rapporteur Says UN System is ‘Schizophrenic’

The United Nations demonstrates a tendency towards schizophrenia in its approaches to agricultural reform and fighting world hunger, says Swiss academic Jean Ziegler, the global forum's special rapporteur on the right to food.

FOOD: Rights Rapporteur Says UN System is ‘Schizophrenic’

The United Nations demonstrates a tendency towards schizophrenia in its approaches to agricultural reform and fighting world hunger, says Swiss academic Jean Ziegler, the global forum's special rapporteur on the right to food.

HEALTH: Crucial Talks for Global Tobacco Control

Inter-governmental negotiations for an international convention on tobacco control are to be renewed next week amidst pressures from the health community and from civil society organisations that demand vigorous action to protect global public health from the threat they say is created by big tobacco transnationals.

HEALTH: Crucial Talks for Global Tobacco Control

Inter-governmental negotiations for an international convention on tobacco control are to be renewed next week amidst pressures from the health community and from civil society organisations that demand vigorous action to protect global public health from the threat they say is created by big tobacco transnationals.

TRADE: Latest WTO Figures Suggest Recovery

Trade worldwide will see a one-percent recovery this year, following 1.5-percent contraction in 2001, but still a far behind the growth levels of the 1990s and the 11 percent achieved just two years ago, announced the World Trade Organisation (WTO) here Thursday.

TRADE: Latest WTO Figures Suggest Recovery

Trade worldwide will see a one-percent recovery this year, following 1.5-percent contraction in 2001, but still a far behind the growth levels of the 1990s and the 11 percent achieved just two years ago, announced the World Trade Organisation (WTO) here Thursday.

TRADE: WTO Moves Closer to United Nations System

Feeling the pressure of the uncertainty hanging over the international economy, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has approached the United Nations system in search of closer cooperation in facing up to the challenge of the new round of multilateral trade talks.

TRADE: WTO Moves Closer to United Nations System

Feeling the pressure of the uncertainty hanging over the international economy, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has approached the United Nations system in search of closer cooperation in facing up to the challenge of the new round of multilateral trade talks.

HEALTH: WHO Issues Global Appeal to Prevent Violence

Violent behaviour, a universal scourge that claims 1.6 million lives each year, is often shrouded in secrecy or taboo, or ignored because it is considered inevitable, a reality the World Health Organisation (WHO) proposes to change.

ENVIRONMENT: Ozone Hole Divides in Two

The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica divided in two last week, an unprecedented phenomenon that caught the scientific community by surprise, say officials at the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).