Top stories from 5th April update:

Trade/WTO:

• SPECIAL REPORT: Withstanding pressures for a new round, a major challenge for the South
• SPECIAL REPORT: South countries must strengthen common ground in negotiations
• NGOs demand WTO head to stop his 'New Round campaign'
• WTO Appellate Body secretariat director forced out?
• Developing countries press for progress on implementation
• TRIMs extension, EU-ACP waiver requests before Goods Council
• Appellate Body members to get full-time remuneration?
• French ban on imports of asbestos products upheld
• New panel on Canadian aircraft export subsidy
• India: Government rebuts drug-piracy charge
• WTO General Council to run Doha preparatory process
• Will Doha preparations repeat pre-Punta del Este process?
• Solidarity, or divide and rule?
• Caribbean to lose in EU's 'Everything-But-Arms' deal
• Larger private sector role in new cocoa agreement
• EC's anti-dumping investigation methods held WTO illegal
• Statement: NGOs urge governments to call off 'new round' proposal
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• Statement: Joint NGO statement on the review of Art.27.3b of the TRIPS agreement [version francais]
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Biotechnology

• Doctors criticise report on GM foods
• TWN Information Service on Biosafety

Other news

• Africa: Poverty and the AIDS virus
• AIDS in Africa: Too little too late
• Americas: Neoliberalism exacerbates racism, says regional conference
• Criticism of IMF gets louder
• WHO and WTO to hold expert consultations on cheap drugs
• Foot-and-mouth reaches Europe
• UN: Gets ready for second Earth Summit next year
• AIDS activists march against pharmaceutical companies
• UN moving forward on Right to Development?
• Europe pledges harsher penalties for 'sex slave' traffickers
• Women demand political will in disarmament negotiations
• Meltzer Commission pushes for deeper IMF/World Bank reforms
• Gender discrimination not good for growth
• US government sued over failure to disclose trade documents
• IFIs eye public services
• Offshore financial centres continue to resist OECD pressure
• No single path to low greenhouse gas emission future
• World Bank asked to open up structural adjustment review