World Trade Organization - WTO
The World Trade Organization is currently facing an unprecedented challenge in its attempt to galvanize the stagnant Doha Development Round, which has been dragging on since 2001. In light of globalization trends and an increasing inequality gap with the rich getting richer, as many of the poor get poorer, the Doha round contends with some of the most problematic trade talks the global community has ever faced.
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NEWS
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Climate change and the population 'bomb': a debate not to shy away from
Fri Nov 20 2009 - Source: Sacsis
When people think of the impact of population on climate change, they tend to glance towards China and India. But, their carbon emissions are four times lower than Europe and the US. This debate comes in times when the UN just released its World Population report 2009.
G8 countries show total lack of political will to address the global food crisis
Thu Nov 19 2009 - Source: La Via Campesina
The blatant absence of the heads of states of the G8 countries in the World Food Summit, held in Rome from 16 to 18th of November, was one of the key causes of the total failure of this summit.
APC perspective on the future of the Internet Governance Forum
Thu Nov 19 2009 - Source: GenderIT
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is of the view that the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has fulfilled its core mandate in terms of paragraph 72 of the Tunis Agenda on the Information Society to constitute a space for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue on internet governance.
To grab, or to invest
Wed Nov 18 2009 - Source: IPS
The World Food Security Summit in Rome this week opened up a dispute between what may be investment in farmland to some, but is seen as land grab by others.
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Climate change
Not enough has been said about the people who will be most affected by climate change, especially women. The climate-change debate needs to be reframed, putting people at the centre. Unless climate policies take people into account, they will fail to mitigate climate change or to shield vulnerable populations from the potentially disastrous impacts (State of World Population 2009).
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The UN reform... and what about women?
More research and knowledge is needed, about women’s issues on the one hand, and, on the other, about how to effectively implement institutional change in large international bureaucracies, so that they become driving forces for gender equality.
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Children's rights
A new report by UNICEF shows that an estimated 195 million children under age 5 in developing countries suffer from stunting, a consequence of chronic nutritional deprivation that begins in the period before birth if the mother is undernourished. Of these, more than 90 per cent are in Asia and Africa.
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