Trade: Attempts to transform WTO into a "plurilateral" trade organization (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
Several ministerial statements were issued on 3 December on the issue of trade and environment, in an apparent attempt to transform the World Trade Organization into a "plurilateral" trade organization.

United Nations: Are all humans born equal in rights? (PRIV)
(IPS, Madrid)
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."

Cameroon: Act to save children living precarious lives in forgotten conflict (PRIV)
(IPS, Yaounde)
Education is under attack in Cameroon. As one of the most complex humanitarian crises in the world unfolds, Education Cannot Wait's director Yasmine Sherif and the Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan Egeland, say the children are pawns for grown men in a political conflict.