Justice

China Blocks Discussion of Rights

Associated Press / Geir Moulson, Associated Press Writer GENEVA (AP) -- China today blocked a full-scale review of its human rights record by the U.N. Human Rights Commission despite U.S. criticism.

Third World Leaders: Ease Poverty

By JAMES ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer HAVANA (AP) - Dozens of Third World leaders were unveiling a strategy to combat poverty enveloping half the global population and help their nations join the industrialized world in its technology revolution.

IMF Official Defends Globalization

Associated Press / Martin Crutsinger, AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- International Monetary Fund and Clinton administration officials on Thursday defended their efforts to promote freer trade and greater integration of the global economy, contending they offered the best hope of lifting hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty.