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SUNS # 8782 Friday 26 October 2018
 
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Trade : Concerns voiced at WTO over safeguard actions on steel (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Geneva)
The WTO's Safeguards Committee this week heard concerns from Members over some five safeguard actions taken by other Members on steel products.

United Nations : The invisible, hungry hand (PRIV)
(IPS, New York)
The very people who help pu t food on our tables often face numerous human rights violations, forcing the m to go to bed hungry.

Argentina : Buenos Aires shantytowns, caught between exclusion and hope (PRIV)
(IPS, Buenos Aires)
"We are the people who are excluded from the system," says Rafael Rivero, sitting in his apartment in a new social housing complex next to one of the largest slums in Buenos Aires.

Kenya : Women turning the tables on traditional banking, land ownership (PRIV)
(IPS, Nairobi)
It was less than eight months ago tha t Mary Auma and her three children, from Ahero in Kenya's Nyanza region, were living in a one-room house in an informal settlement.


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