GLOBAL TRENDS SERIES BY MARTIN KHOR

• Floods should spur urgent action [25 Dec 2006]
• The UN has a new chief but will policies change? [18 Dec 2006]
• Bush seems cool to calls for new Iraq policy [11 Dec 2006]
• A message for all on AIDS Day [04 Dec 2006]
• Middle East violence escalates [27 Nov 2006]
• "Soft re-opening" in WTO talks [20 Nov 2006]
• New winds in the US? [13 Nov 2006]
• Climate change moves up global agenda [06 Nov 2006]
• U-Turn in policy on Iraq [30 Oct 2006]
• Peak oil: the coming energy crunch [23 Oct 2006]
• Issues raised by North Korea's nuclear test [16 Oct 2006]
• Turning point in USA [09 Oct 2006]
• UN debates need for "policy space" [02 Oct 2006]
• Thai coup tops eventful week [25 Sept 2006]
• Reforms needed to IMF, World Bank [18 Sept 2006]
• Act now on climate, leaders told [11 Sept 2006]
• Budget 2007 and the world economy [04 Sept 2006]
• Free trade treaties vs patient's lives [28 August 2006]
• Fighting stops, problems remain [21 August 2006]
• Human Rights Council condemns Israeli actions [14 August 2006]
• Lebanon still burns as world watches [07 August 2006]
• Lebanon and WTO breakdown hog the news [31 July 2006]
• Tragedy in Lebanon [24 July 2006]
• Mid-East crisis going out of control [17 July 2006]
• Israel condemned for its Gaza actions [10 July 2006]
• Crisis as WTO talks fail [03 July 2006]
• Uproar over privacy of bank data [26 June 2006]
• Battle looms as UN running out of funds [19 June 2006]
• An eventful week that was [12 June 2006]
• South fights for a fairer UN system [05 June 2006]
• WHO reviews world's health problems [29 May 2006]
• Battle of wills on "policy space" [22 May 2006]
• Big fight on food security [15 May 2006]
• Winds of change in Latin America [08 May 2006]
• Meeting of world's top economic agencies [01 May 2006]
• Africans fight for fairer trade [17 April 2006]
• Medical brain drain hits poor nations [10 April 2006]
• UN agencies face closure threat [03 April 2006]
• UN reform process hots up [27 March 2006]
• Warning of a new financial crisis [20 March 2006]
• Challenges on road to US-Malaysia FTA [13 March 2006]
• Birth pangs of UN’s new Human Rights Council [06 March 2006]
• Don't rush to open up services sector [20 February 2006]
• Facing the West-Muslim divide [13 February 2006]
• A plunge in Western-Muslim relations [06 February 2006]
• Problem of "jobless growth" highlighted [02 February 2006]
• Standoff over Iran nuclear plan [23 January 2006]
• What lies ahead in 2006? [02 January 2006]
• FTA is a matter of "life and death" [16 January 2006]
• Eventful start to new year [09 January 2006]