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HUMAN RIGHTS: UN Committee ‘Impotent’ in the Case of Colombia
A United Nations human rights committee admitted its impotence in the face of the gravity of the violence shaking Colombia, but praised the awareness of the government that racial discrimination was a persistent problem in the South American country.TRADE: Developing Countries Not Ready to Make the Rounds
While industrialised countries are ready for a new round of multilateral trade talks, many developing nations are still complaining about poor compliance with the commitments assumed in the Uruguay Round.RIGHTS: UN Team Scrutinises Transnational Corporations
The United Nations (UN) installed a new working group Tuesday to evaluate the effects of transnational business activity on human rights.RIGHTS: Delegates Obstruct Work of UN Indigenous Groups
Delegates from several governments employ tactics that prevent approval of United Nations (UN) resolutions and declarations that concern indigenous people, denounced a UN official.RIGHTS: Delegates Obstruct Work of UN Indigenous Groups
Delegates from several governments employ tactics that prevent approval of United Nations (UN) resolutions and declarations that concern indigenous people, denounced a UN official.RIGHTS: UN Team Scrutinises Transnational Corporations
The United Nations (UN) installed a new working group Tuesday to evaluate the effects of transnational business activity on human rights.DISARMAMENT: Shades of Kosovo Still Hanging Over Conference
The 1999 sessions of the Conference on Disarmament (CD), disrupted by the war in Kosovo, will end in failure unless there is some show of flexibility from the blocs currently caught in a deadlock, according to negotiators.DEVELOPMENT: UN Chooses Haiti to Test Long-Term Plan
The United Nations (UN) will begin experimenting with new policies for countries in crisis by applying them to Haiti, a Caribbean nation that is attempting to recover from decades of dictatorship and economic crises.DEVELOPMENT: Structural Injustice as a Cause of War
Humanity has spent this century fighting wars - costing some 169 million lives in large-scale conflicts alone - but has yet to hit upon the structural causes of so many disasters.TRADE: New WTO Directorship to be Double Occupancy
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) will elect its new director general this week, using a formula that satisfies the two factions that have been fighting over the post for the last 10 months.LABOUR: International Union Accuses US of Labour Misdeeds
The world's principal labour union launched accusations against the United States on Wednesday for labour rights violations, which include the use of child and prison labour.DEVELOPMENT: Inequalities Worsen in Transitional Economies
Eastern Europe and the Community of Independent States (CIS) are backsliding in areas of human equality and see few benefits from globalisation, said the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).DEVELOPMENT: UNDP Says Globalisation Has Double Edge
Globalisation is a double edged sword, cutting people in on international communication and co-operation, but increasingly cutting people out of the benefits, according to a United Nations (UN) report.DEVELOPMENT: US Disagrees with UN on Roots of Asian Poverty
The United States and the United Nations (UN) defend conflicting interpretations of the impact the recent Asian financial crisis has had on poverty.DEVELOPMENT: UN’s Promises to the Poor Take Flight
A United Nations forum, which proposed a new alliance between the countries of the North and South, will oversee the implementation of poverty-fighting measures approved by previous international conferences.DEVELOPMENT: UN Launches Initiative to Wipe Out Poverty
The United Nations (UN) launched a campaign to eradicate poverty, a blight extending throughout developing and industrialised countries alike, and affecting more than three billion people, or half of the world population.TRADE: WTO Elections Mired by Lack of Consensus
Delegates from a select group of countries proposed a solution to the impasse in chosing the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) new director general. The two candidates in the race will take turns at the helm of the organisation.RIGHTS: UN Questions Legality of Kurdish Leader’s Trial
The United Nations (UN) declared Tuesday that it questioned the trial and subsequent capital punishment sentence handed down in Turkey against the Kurdish independence leader, Abdullah Ocalan.LABOUR: Clinton Wants Ban on Child Labour
U.S. president Bill Clinton called on governments worldwide Wednesday to stamp out "vicious forms of abusive child labour."LABOUR: ILO Gains Tool to Uproot ‘Worst Forms of Child Labour’
The international community adopted Thursday a convention banning the worst forms of child labour, which could help a majority of the 250 million children between the ages of five and 14 working in developing countries.LABOUR: Clinton Wants Ban on Child Labour
U.S. president Bill Clinton called on governments worldwide Wednesday to stamp out "vicious forms of abusive child labour."« Previous Page — Next Page »
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