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Amid the shouts of demonstrators, the protests of Southern delegations and the disagreements between the United States and European Union, the World Trade Organisation failed to launch a comprehensive revision of international trade

[The following statement is being circulated by the Council of Canadians public interest organisation. To sign on to the statement, visit the web site of the Council of Canadians, <http://www.canadians.org&#062;.] People's movements across the

The May 2000 armed coup that overthrew the democratically elected Fiji Labour Party government has been formalised and legitimised. With the swearing in of a coalition government dominated by the two key Melanesian-Fijian chauvinist

HAVANA — A new world, without hunger and with justice, is possible Cuban President Fidel Castro affirmed at the closing ceremony of the first World Forum on Food Sovereignty, held September 3-7 with the participation of 300

On average, almost six women die each day from unsafe abortions in Nepal and those that are lucky enough to survive back-alley procedures then risk life imprisonment. Under current laws, abortion is prohibited even in cases of rape, incest or when

"Where are our missing children? We have nothing — no land, no houses, nothing to do, no materials to work with to make an income. The women here are dying from childbirth because they have no money for doctors, there is little

More than five million workers, students and poor South Africans joined the August 29-30 national strike against the African National Congress government's privatisation plans, in what was clearly a massive success for the Congress of

Cuban President Fidel Castro delivered the following address to the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, in Durban, September 1. It has been slightly abridged. Racism, racial discrimination and

US dock workers and protesters in Portland on August 16 and Oakland on August 18 prevented the Italian ship, Cielo di San Francisco, from unloading its cargo. Protesters and members of the International Longshore Workers Union acted against the

Despite protests by human rights groups and large sections of the legal profession, Indonesia's police are continuing their prosecution of more than 30 people for their political activities. In the northern province of Aceh, where the

DURBAN — More than 3000 landless South Africans — women, farm workers, chiefs and young people — gathered on August 30 at the Roger Rovers Club for the International Landless People's Assembly, called by the newly formed

Nearly 1000 former residents of the major industrial city of Chongqing, who were displaced by Beijing's US$24 billion Three Gorges Dam project, clashed with police on August 27 when they protested in Yongzhou city, Hunan province,