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CHILDREN: UN Committee Evaluates Relations with Governments
Good relations must be always be maintained where children are concerned, even when the relationship between the parents is difficult, as the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has found in dealing with governments.DEVELOPMENT-TRADE: Progress in 1997 Despite Asian Crisis
At the close of 1997, world trade and production registered accelerated growth in relation to 1996, despite the crisis in some Asian financial markets, concluded the World Trade Organisation (WTO).AFRICA: UNICEF Concern over Cholera Epidemic in Zanzibar
The outbreak of cholera in Zanzibar in recent weeks has already left 96 dead, announced UNICEF here Friday, showing concern at the high death rate registered.ENVIRONMENT: UN Prepares Multiple Receiving Party for El Nino
The United Nations Organisation (UN) started many pronged-action this week to prevent and mitigate the effects of the el Nino phenomenon, which are expected to worsen in the next three months.LABOUR: Discrimination against Women Unacceptable, says ILO
Discrimination against women in the work place is still a serious problem, affecting most working women throughout the world, says a new report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).HUMAN RIGHTS: Children, the Target of Today’s Wars
The mechanics of war have changed in recent years, but it is still just as perverse: for the weapons are now trained on children and civilians.LABOUR: Developing Countries Block ‘Social Clause’ in ILO
The non-aligned nations once again blocked an attempt by the industrialised North to impose a "social clause" that would condition international trade.LABOUR: Developing Countries Block ‘Social Clause’ in ILO
The non-aligned nations once again blocked an attempt by the industrialised North to impose a "social clause" that would condition international trade.RIGHTS: UN Working Group Seeks to Defend Immigrants from Racism
The number of undocumented immigrants, attracted by an international market for illegal labour, is on the rise worldwide, according to an Inter-Governmental Working Group which began to meet Monday under UN auspices.INDIGENOUS-HUMAN RIGHTS: UN Declaration Postponed – Again
Governments once more applied the delaying tactics used for more than a decade in discussions of a United Nations declaration on indigenous peoples, and approval of the controversial document was put off again - this time until March.HEALTH: New Test Project for AIDS Work in Poor Nations
A new project sponsored by the United Nations will attempt to bridge "the enormous gap" that exists in AIDS treatment between the industrialized countries of the North and developing nations.HEALTH: Animal-Human Transplants Coming
International medical experts believe it will soon be possible for doctors to safely transfer cells, tissue and organs from animals to humans.LABOUR: Steel Industry Workforce to Continue to Shrink, Says ILO
Although the steel industry has recently undergone the most drastic cuts in personnel experienced by any economic sector, the process has not yet ended, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO).LABOUR: Rural Workers at Highest Risk of Fatal Accidents, Illness
Agricultural work, an activity practically exclusive to developing countries, accounts for the highest job- related mortality rates, warns the International Labour Organisation (ILO).HEALTH: Humans Jeopardised by Antibiotic Use in Food Animals
The excessive use of antimicrobial substances in animals raised for human consumption presents a growing threat to human health and must be reduced, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned Monday.DEVELOPMENT: UN Officials Lament Decline in International Aid
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson lamented Friday - on the world day dedicated to the eradication of poverty - that industrialised countries had reduced their official development aid (ODA).TRADE-COMMODITIES: EU Delays Compliance with WTO Banana Ruling
The European Union (EU) postponed the announcement of the conditions of its capitulation in the 'banana war' it is waging against the United States and a group of Latin American countries in the World Trade Organisation (WTO).CHILDREN: Governments Ignore Millions of Disabled Children
In a world that glorifies competition and embraces the survival of the fittest, the rights of the world's 500 million disabled people - 140 million of whom are children - are being ignored, say social workers.CHILDREN: No End to Violence Against Children.
Violence against children, which has gone on for centuries around the world, persists in today's society, and only a handful of countries have laws that extend to minors the same protection against aggression enjoyed by adults, studies show.TRADE: Liberalisation of Information Sector Excludes South
The majority of information technology products traded worldwide have paid 25 percent less tariffs since July. But broad sectors of the developing world are still excluded from the trend towards liberalisation.HEALTH: Lassa Fever Joins Ranks of Emergent Diseases
Outbreaks of Lassa fever, an acute viral illness pertaining to the category of emergent diseases, have occurred in Liberia, the Central African Republic, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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