UN Chronicle E-Alert: OF MIGRATION AND GLOBAL TRADE

The Chairmanship of the http://www.g77.org">Group of 77 , the coalition of 133 developing
countries, was handed over by Venezuela to Morocco at a ceremony
at United Nations Headquarters yesterday. http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid=229">Speaking on the occasion,
Secretary-General Kofi Annan highlighted the challenges the G-77 will
face in the coming year, including the need to deal with trade-related
intellectual property rights while allowing developing countries to have
access to life-saving medicines, an issue which has led to difficulties in
multilateral trade negotiations following the 2001 Doha agreement. He
also urged developing nations to pay greater attention to protecting
the human rights of migrants and for both developing and developed
countries to realize fully the potential of international migration.

The UN Chronicle has in the past highlighted the issue of migration,
including immigration and the refugee problem, and also the question
of access to life-saving medicines. Some of these articles are presented
below:

MIGRATION
Preview of Issue 1, 2003
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2003/webArticles/011503_hardship_at_home.html">Hardship at Home/Hardship Abroad: The Migration 'System' Doesn't Work"
    
Issue 3, 2002
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue3/0302p57_article_13.html">RightsWatch: Breaking Down Borders"
     by Zahra Sethna, for the Chronicle.
    
Issue 2, 2001
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue2/0102p34.htm">What the United Nations Should Do about People Smuggling"
     by Philip Ruddock, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural
     and Indigenous Affairs, Australia.
    
Issue 1, 2001
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue1/0101p73.htm">Prostitutes in High Demand in Kosovo"
     by Sergei Vinogradov, for the Chronicle.
    
Issue 2, 1998
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/1998/issue2/0298p78.html">Inter-State Migration and Economic Development"
     by Peter Schatzer, Director of External Relations, International
     Organization for Migration (IOM).
    
    
TRIPS [ WTO's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights ]
Issue 1, 2001
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue1/0101p8.htm">What the World, and Its UN, Can Do"
     by Drew Limsky, journalist and fiction writer. His work has
     appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Genre,
     San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications.
    
· http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue1/0101p7.htm">Combine Incentives for Research with Access to Medication for the Poor !"
    

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