Trade : Uncertainties and fluid situation on WTO's May schedule (PRIV)
(Martin Khor, Accra)
The WTO negotiating schedule over the next weeks looks very fluid, according to several officials and diplomats that are in Accra for the UNCTAD XII conference and who have been interacting among themselves and also with the WTO Director General Pascal Lamy who is also here.

UNCTAD XII : Talks on text intensify, while G77 issues Declaration (PRIV)
(Martin Khor, Accra)
Several unresolved issues are at the centre of negotiations on the UNCTAD XII text to be adopted on 25 April, the final day of the conference.

UNCTAD XII : Civil society blasts further erosion of policy space (PRIV)
(Martin Khor, Accra)
The policy space for development has eroded further in the past four years since UNCTAD XI in 2004, and the present UNCTAD XII should make decisions that can empower developing countries to use policy tools for development.

Trade : ACP, African Group call for S&D treatment in anti-dumping (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Geneva)
Two key groups of developing countries have proposed changes to the current Anti-Dumping Agreement aimed at making it easier for developing countries to apply anti-dumping measures.

Africa : Millions of children falling through the cracks (PRIV)
(IPS, New York)
A significant proportion of the world's 2.2 billion children, many of whom are victims of violence, sexual abuse, labour exploitation and preventable diseases, are from the crisis-plagued African continent.

Europe : Dirty clean-up deal feared (PRIV)
(IPS, Brussels)
A favourite cliche of commentators on European Union affairs is to describe France and Germany as the bloc's engine.