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HEALTH-RIGHTS: Healing the Poor Under WTO Rules
Indian physicist Vandana Shiva added his voice to the chorus of disapproval of the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) conference in Seattle last week in protesting over the threat to medical aid posed by WTO rules.RIGHTS-LABOUR: Suffer the Little Children…
Latin American governments are increasingly throwing their support behind an international campaign to eliminate the exploitation of child workers.HEALTH: Debate Rages Anew Over Origin of AIDS
The long-held belief that the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) began in Africa has been challenged by a British writer, sparking off a fresh debate on the origins of the disease.RIGHTS-LABOUR: Suffer the Little Children…
Latin American governments are increasingly throwing their support behind an international campaign to eliminate the exploitation of child workers.HEALTH: Conservative Religious Views Hamper Fight Against AIDS
Public health workers in Central America, trying to combat the spread the AIDS virus, are being hampered in their fight by conservative religious groups in the region.HUMAN RIGHTS-OUTLOOK 2000: Chastening the Abusers
The last decade of this millenium has provided human rights activists moments to rejoice in. It began with the release of Nelson Mandela from prison and has been drawing to an end with the birth of a new nation, East Timor.RIGHTS: Pluses and Minuses in Fight for Child Rights
A look around the world on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) shows progress in some regions, setbacks in others.RIGHTS: Pluses and Minuses in Fight for Child Rights
A look around the world on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) shows progress in some regions, setbacks in others.RIGHTS: Pluses and Minuses in Fight for Child Rights
A look around the world on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) shows progress in some regions, setbacks in others.RIGHTS-AFGHANISTAN: Women Step Up Struggle for Equality
The Taliban, the ultra-conservative Muslim group that rules most of Afghanistan, is notorious for its intolerance toward gender equality.RIGHTS-AFGHANISTAN: Women Step Up Struggle for Equality
The Taliban, the ultra-conservative Muslim group that rules most of Afghanistan, is notorious for its intolerance toward gender equality.HEALTH: New Offensive Against Malaria
Japanese pharmaceutical companies are showing the way to other firms in the developed world by committing research resources to finding a more effective drug to combat malaria.DISARMAMENT: Ban the Bomb Campaign Heads into 21st Century
The action by the US Senate in refusing to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) will only spark new demands for nuclear disarmament in the new century, according to peace activists.HEALTH: AIDS Orphans Many Children in Asia and Africa
The world first learned the story of Miriam five months ago. She was a Cambodian child orphaned five days after she was born when her mother, a 19-year old sex worker, died of AIDS.RELIGION: Conversion and Persecution at the End of Millennium
The religious climate in both the developing and developed worlds was far from serene as the millennium draws to an end.RIGHTS: Big Business Out to Improve Image
The Royal Dutch-Shell oil company recently boasted in an advertisement in a leading international that it really cared about human rights.LABOUR: Health Hazards in the Workplace
The increasing health problems faced by women workers around the world will come in for particular scrutiny at the first international conference on health hazards in the workplace, to be held in Australia in July 2000.LABOUR: Dents in Dignity of Labour
Women applying for jobs in the garment factories clustered near the US border suffer indignities that are not applied to men - such as being asked questions by prospective employers about their sexual activities.LABOUR: Health Hazards in the Workplace
The increasing health problems faced by women workers around the world will come in for particular scrutiny at the first international conference on health hazards in the workplace, to be held in Australia in July 2000.RIGHTS: Big Business Out to Improve Image
The Royal Dutch-Shell oil company recently boasted in an advertisement in a leading international that it really cared about human rights.HEALTH: Malnourished City Children in Danger
Malnourished children in major cities of the developing world face grave health problems because of increasing levels of air pollution, warn public health officials.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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