• Libyan envoy elected to chair HR Commission on secret ballot (C.Raghavan)
• US, Israel come under fire over housing rights violations (K.Raja)
• Access to water enshrined as a human right (K.Raja)
• HRC adopts resolutions on economic, social and cultural rights (C.Raghavan)
• Remove structural imbalances favouring rich countries in agricultural trade (C.Raghavan) March 2002
• New trade talks must address right to food, says Special Rapporteur (C.Raghavan) March 2002
• Homeless, precariously sheltered continue to grow in number (C.Raghavan) March 2002
• US ouster from UN rights body reflects Third World anger (T.Deen) 4 May 2001
• Ensure international agreements support public health, says HRC (C.Raghavan) 23 April 2001
• HRC for study of obstacles from financial, trade systems (C.Raghavan) 19 April 2001
• Affirm right to life over IPRs and TNC profits, say NGOs (C.Raghavan) 5 Apr 2001
• Economic, cultural and social rights only 'goals', says US (C.Raghavan) 30 Mac 2001
• Speed debt relief, delink HIPC and PRSP (C.Raghavan) 27 Mac 2001
• UN: Moving forward on Right to Development? (C.Raghavan) 12 Mac 2001
• Housing rights approach to tackle homelessness advocated (C.Raghavan) 22 Feb 2001
• UN human rights commissioner responds to the WTO (S.Singh)
  
• TRIPS regime at odds with human rights law, says UN body (S.Singh)
  
• WTO concerned over human rights appraisal report (C.Raghavan)
  
• US riled by economic sanctions report (S.Singh)
  
• Mainstream human rights in global economic governance (S.Singh)
  
• Human rights - a charade of the virtuous (S.Singh)
  
• New round must examine human rights implications (S Singh)
• Dawn of human rights in BWIs and WTO? (S Singh)
• UN: HR body to scrutinise TNC activities (G Capdevila)
• America's problem with human rights (Reed Brody)
• Investment, Trade and Finance: The Human Rights Framework - Policy Statement by the International NGO Committee on Human Rights in Trade & Investment
• Human rights as a primary objective of trade, investment and financial policy - UN Commission on Human Rights
• Betinho: The conscience of a society (Roberto Bissio)
• Profit for few or food for all
• Brazil's champion of democracy  (P. Parameswaran)
• Depoliticising gender in Beijing  (V.T.Corpuz)

Indigenous People

• Declaration on indigenous peoples long overdue (Thalif Deen)
• Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women

Women

• The Effects of the WTO on Women's Rights (Vandana Shiva)

Right to Development

• The right not to be poor (R. Bissio) 13 Feb 2001
• Human Rights Approaches to Development (NGLS Roundup, Nov 98)
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights