Top stories from 31 January update

Trade/WTO:

• TWN REPORT: The situation at the WTO a year since Seattle
• WTO Dispute Settlement Body adopts ruling against US on wheat gluten safeguards
• China WTO accession talks stall, may resume end February
• EU seeks to eliminate tariffs on imports from LDCs
• Recent Event: Joint NGO statement on the review of Art.27.3b of the TRIPS agreement [version francais]
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Biotechnology/Access

• On defence in the North, biotech infiltrating the South
• TWN Information Service on Biosafety

Other news

• New People's Charter for Health adopted [Full-text of Charter]
• Latin America: Globalisation doesn't correct inequalities
• Argentina: Europe's mad cows complicate agricultural outlook
• On foreign policy, Clinton mostly timid
• World Health Organisation denounces interference by tobacco industry
• Moscow braces for a dispute with creditors
• New proposals for bank capital adequacy standards unveiled
• Caribbean: Plan needed to mitigate impact of natural disasters