Associated Press / July 18, 2000
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Brazil's government has canceled deeds to almost 2,000 large rural properties to alter the country's skewed land distribution, in which a small rich elite controls most of the land in this vast country.
THE NEWS INTERNATIONAL / Shahina Maqbool
ISLAMABAD: Anti-globalisation activists on Saturday organised a demonstration against the "secret" visit of the Director General World Trade Organization (WTO) Mike Moore to Pakistan and called for a review of the international trade agreements in accordance with the needs of the developing countries.
Editors, Progressive Farmer / Thursday, July 27, 2000
A lawsuit filed three years ago by Greenpeace claiming that genetically engineered Bt crops were negligently approved has been dismissed this week by a U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C. Greenpeace had virtually given up this court fight even before the judge's dismissal by withdrawing from the case.
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.
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.
