Justice

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.

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.

Opposition to Export-Import Bank $1 Billion AIDS Loan

Yesterday, the US Export-Import Bank announced a new initiative to make $1 billion in loans per year to African countries to purchase HIV/AIDS drugs.

Seattle National Lawyers Guild Releases Draft Report On WTO Ministerial

This report "Draft Report on the Level of Paramilitary Response and Loss of Democratic Rights During the Seattle Round of the World Trade Organization Ministerial" pays particular attention to the thinning lines between law enforcement and the military and the adverse effects this loss of delineation is having on civil liberties.....

WTO Report Notes Rights Violations

Seattle Post-Intelligencer / By KERY MURAKAMI / SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Mayor Paul Schell had said he wanted both protesters and delegates to be heard at the World Trade Organization conference last fall.

A Few Advances Toward Applying Anti-Poverty Plans

By Gustavo Capdevila / IPS GENEVA, Jun 30 (IPS) - A week of negotiations by the special session of the United Nations general assembly on the question of fighting poverty led to a few significant results, like the idea of studying new formulas for financing development or for freezing the foreign debt at current levels.

Nations Try to Develop Poverty Plan

Associated Press / Naomi Koppel GENEVA (AP) -- Rich and poor nations, replowing the same territory they did at last year's, riot-torn Seattle trade conference, tried Tuesday to hammer out a United Nations plan to tackle global poverty.

Indigenous Peoples Critical of The Human Genome Project

Nixon, NV, 4:00 pm PST. Scientists representing the publicly funded Human Genome Project, and the private venture, Celera Corporation, announced today they have completed a rough map of the human genome. The human genome consists of two sets of 23 chromosomes, with each set containing a total of 3 billion chemical units.

OECD Ministers ""Determined"" to Launch New Trade Round

Agence France Presse / Sue Kendall PARIS, June 27 (AFP) - Ministers of 29 major industrial countries said here Tuesday they are "determined" to work for the launch "as soon as possible" of a new round of global trade talks that fully include the world's poorest nations.