Top stories from 10 September update:

Trade/WTO:

• Rethinking TRIPS in the WTO - NGOs demand review and reform of TRIPS at Doha
• African political leaders against new issues at WTO
• US now complains of panels 'interpreting' WTO law
• India will protect its own interests at Doha
• UN body reaffirms human rights obligations over trade, finance
• TWN letter to Financial Times on WTO
• Ensure more definitive rendering of TRIPS exceptions, say jurists
• Rights jurists for sui generis systems on pharmaceutical IPRs
• Lessons not learnt at the WTO
• LDC Ministers not prepared to negotiate on new issues
• No consensus on new round or agenda for Doha
• Majors working to force their will on the rest of WTO?
• Africa Group, LDCs outline stands on Doha
• WTO at the crossroads
• Why South should oppose new issues and new round in the WTO
• WTO members split on new round
• High-level African meet against negotiating new issues at the WTO
• The 'reality check' that's neither real nor a check
• A progress report of large gaps and 'bridging' efforts
• US, Swiss take hardline on TRIPS, public health and Doha
• Agri-talks mark time, for end of peace clause or new round?
• Proposals for decisions on TRIPS and public health at Doha
• South must define contents of 'development round'
• LDCs reject new round for Doha
• Three disputes sent to panel
• China working party all but completes its work
• G7 calls for a new round, with 'balanced' agenda
• Majors stalling on implementation issues
• Green MEPs endorse 'shrink or sink' of WTO
• US again stalls WTO process on Iran accession request
• A Caribbean view of Moore's 'new round campaign'
• FTAA under attack at integration forum
• No convergence of views on Doha agenda or new round
• ECOSOC high-level segment won't endorse new trade round
• WTO facing crisis of legitimacy, needs institutional reforms
• EU lifts tariffs on Brazilian soluble coffee
• Extend GATS campaign to privatization, bilateral accords
• UN report sees green light for generic AIDS drugs
• Statement: Rethinking TRIPS in the WTO - NGOs demand review and reform of TRIPS at Doha Sign on here
• Statement: Patents and medicines: The WTO must act now! Sign on here
• Statement: NGOs urge governments to call off 'new round' proposal Sign on here

Biotechnology/Access

• Sri Lanka: Lobbying puts ban on GE food at risk
• Mexico: Greenpeace, government collide over transgenics
• Asian civil society groups condemn 'hybrid rice'
• US panel upholds ban on biotech corn
• Europe: Rules on GMOs lack safeguards, say environmentalists
• Brazil: NGOs challenge production of transgenic soya
• Bid to approve modified corn assailed
• UNDP's stance on transgenics ignites debate
• UN cautions Africa on genetically modified crops
• TWN Information Service on Biosafety

Other news

• Argentine loan requires Mercosur agree to trade accord with US!
• Earth Trends Series of articles on current events by Martin Khor
• MLIs have to apply transparency, good governance to themselves
• Towards restating HR law and applicability to MLIs
• Globalisation, a political and not simply an economic question
• Review Global Compact partnership with ICC, says study
• Issue note on ownership and conditionality (relating to IMF policies)
• WHO unduly influenced by large pharma companies, complains Nader
• Only outcome of G8 summit was violence, say NGOs
• Latin America: Women immigrants target of xenophobia
• World Bank insurance wing under attack
• New victory in campaign for low-cost medications
• Critics assail World Bank's new environmental strategy
• 'Light at end of tunnel' on sustainable development
• Africa: High-level meet promises international support
• Saving Kyoto, in name or substance?
• Offshore tax havens reject calls for transparency
• IMF, World Bank assailed for rejecting debt forgiveness
• UNDP report under fire in Africa
• UNDP-HDR slated for joining high-tech bandwagon
• Global economy expected to improve by late 2001
• Technology and the market, an exclusive relationship
• Poverty, a market failure not curable by technology fixes
• Clearinghouse for reviewing ecotourism no.11