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New York: With the health gap between rich and poor at its widest level in recent history, the United Nations today opened a three-day forum in Brazil to tackle the social, economic and environmental root causes of health inequities.

New York: The International Criminal Court (ICC) today requested Malawi to explain its alleged failure to arrest and surrender to the court Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir who is wanted on charges of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.

Mexico has improved, but needs to give greater priority to the criminal enforcement of bribery and ensure that its criminal law enforcement authorities have all the resources and expertise they need to seriously investigate all allegations, according to a new OECD report.

Korea has improved its information and intelligence gathering capacity in foreign bribery cases, but should be more proactive in investigating allegations, according to a new OECD report.

New York: Lawyers representing 4,000 victims of Khmer Rouge atrocities today presented a wish list for reparations to the United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia that is trying four former political leaders of the regime accused of crimes against humanity.

Participants gathered at the Carnegie Mellon University in Rwanda to celebrate a unique tripartite partnership between the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Government of Rwanda and Carnegie Mellon University and the planned opening of a Carnegie Mellon Campus in Rwanda in January 2012.

WTO Deputy Director-General Alejandro Jara, in his keynote speech to the IDE-JETRO and WTO International Symposium on 19 October 2011 in Tokyo, said that one lesson of the Asian economic experience is that “autarky and isolationism are not a sustainable option…it was by opening their economies to trade and foreign investment that developing Asia became emerging Asia”.

New York: A new report by the United Nations labour agency warns of a youth jobs crisis in both developed and developing countries, with young people aged 15 to 24 finding it increasingly difficult to obtain decent employment and future prospects are dim.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission visited Mozambique during October 5–19, 2011 to conduct the third review under a three-year Policy Support Instrument (PSI) which was approved in June 2010. Policy discussions were held with the Minister of Finance, Manuel Chang; the Minister of Planning and Development, Aiuba Cuereneia; the Governor of the Bank of Mozambique, Ernesto Gouveia Gove, several line ministers, and other senior government officials. The mission also met with representatives of Parliament, the private sector, development partners and civil society, including labor unions.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Did Chief Minister Oommen Chandy usurp the powers of the Assembly Speaker the other day? Did the CM overrule the Speaker’s ruling because it did not suit the United Democratic Front Government’s agenda and interests? The dramatic happenings inside the state assembly over the last few days, which saw Kerala politics plumbing lower depths, are self-explanatory.