No image available
/ 14 February 2007
United Nations human rights investigators on Wednesday called off a visit to Darfur after Sudanese officials demanded the removal of the UN’s former top rights official from the group. The six-member team, set up last December by the UN Human Rights Council, said it would pursue its work without entering the country.
New World Trade Organisation (WTO) chief Supachai Panitchpakdi of Thailand pledged on Monday to work to ensure that global trade underpinned development and brought benefits to the poor as well as the rich.
Use of the Internet is booming all around the world, bucking the global economic downturn and the crisis in the information technology industry, according to United Nations figures issued on Monday.
International aid groups warned on Tuesday that if rich powers succeeded in forcing open agricultural markets in developing countries it would destroy poor farmers and cause massive social disruption.