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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has welcomed Canada’s push to enact legislation allowing makers of generic medicines to export cheaper versions of patented HIV/AIDS drugs to poor countries. The UN agency says that Canada is the first developed country to take advantage of the recent World Trade Organisation deal over generic medicine exports.…

Keith Nuthall
A DETAILED and global draft code of practice on reducing violence and stress suffered by service industry employees has been released by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which views the problems as a key “threat to productivity and decent work”.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has published a comprehensive analysis of the world’s forest products industry and markets. With the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation, it has released Forest Products Annual Market Analysis, 2002-2004. It covers forest products market and policy developments in Europe, north America and the former Soviet Union.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A UNITED Nations fact-finding mission sent to investigate the growth in organised crime in Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein has concluded that wool and sheep smuggling are one of the key problems facing the occupation authorities.…

Keith Nuthall
THE UNITED Nations body established to settle claims made against Iraq because of its illegal occupation of Kuwait in 1991 has awarded a further US$315 million in compensation, bringing the total amount of money paid out under its authority to US$46.6 billion.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN 1995, when I visited the Laos capital Vientiane, it was a sleepy place; a quiet low rise French colonial town on the banks of the Mekong, a listless, aimless, but charming mix of Soviet-style socialist monuments, Buddhist temples and Provencal town houses.…

BY PHILIP FINE

FOOD production always starts with the farmer. It’s a truism that we all know, but sometimes needs restating; the desires of the consumer, often fed by the marketing acumen of the retailer, guide primary producers as to how, what and how much to plant and breed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MEXICO has requested the formation of a World Trade Organisation panel over a dispute with the United States regarding its levying of 11.68 per cent countervailing duties on imports of carbon steel plate in sheets from Mexican producer Altos Hornos de México, SA de CV (AHMSA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ANTI-GLOBALISATION activists will not like it, but there are signs that September’s World Trade Organisation summit in Cancun might deliver what has eluded political leaders since the WTO’s agricultural liberalisation talks began in 2000: the beginnings of a deal.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN ASSUMPTION has been made by many in the past few months in the international food industry: the unveiling of so many new low-calorie and low-fat alternative food items must have something to do with obesity-related litigation lurking in the US.…