Search Results for: United Nations

BY MONICA DOBIE
MOVE over Harry Potter trading cards. Make way for deformed child victim of polio and newborn afflicted with tetanus trading cards. Yes folks, disease cards complete with gory, graphic pictures and interesting facts on the back are making the rounds in school playgrounds across the United States.…

KEITH NUTHALL
EGYPTIAN fish farms are being supplied with Cairo wastewater cleansed by innovative biotechnology. In a scheme coordinated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Egyptian government is pumping 25,000 cubic metres of water from a drain serving the capital into huge ponds, where sediments settle.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A ROAD map on regulatory cooperation agreed by the European Union (EU) and the United States includes a deal to work together on nutritional labelling, according to documents released by Washington. The agreement sanctions cooperation between the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Commission’s directorate general for health and consumer affairs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FEEDING of rare and exotic marine species off deep ocean mineral deposits that may become a target for mining companies could create a conflict between international mineral extraction and environmental conventions, a United Nations report has warned.…

BY MARK ROWE
GIVEN the level of public concern over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in what we drink and eat, most companies have chosen to tread warily around the issue and sought not to draw attention to it. In the Swedish town of Ystad, however, a small family brewery has adopted the opposite approach.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED States has formally requested that a World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes panel censure a 20 per cent tax imposed by Mexico on beverages and syrups that use sweeteners other than cane sugar, (and associated bookkeeping and reporting restrictions).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LAWYERS acting for Saddam Hussein have failed to persuade the European Court of Human Rights to prevent the British government helping to hand him to the new Iraqi government, because it may decide to execute him. Despite the fact Mr Hussein’s regime oversaw many judicial executions, his legal team on Britain’s signing the European Convention on Human Rights – is committed to preserving “the right to life”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has formally rejected an EU-US open skies deal that would deny European airlines the right of cabotage in the United States air travel market. Washington is currently refusing to offer this concession, valuable given the size of the US.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE may be lies, damned lies and statistics, but no spin can conceal that a large proportion of international shipping and ports will not have complied with the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) security code by July 1, its implementation deadline.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission and the Pacific island Federated States of Micronesia have agreed a new bilateral tuna fisheries agreement allowing six European Union 6 tuna seiners and 12 surface long-liners to the archipelago’s vast territorial waters. Agreed in the USA-associated state’s capital of Palikir, the three-year deal involves Brussels compensating its government with Euro 559,000 for an annual tuna catch of 8,600 tonnes.…