WTO : South suffers loss at MC12, EU & US biggest winners (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
As the World Trade Organization's 12th ministerial conference (MC12) concluded in the early hours of 17 June, trad e ministers of the developing countries seem to have vacated the field on the ir core developmental concerns and allowed the European Union and other major developed countries to claim success, said people who asked not to be quote d.

Rights : Slave markets open 24/7 (PRIV)
(IPS, Madrid)
In addition to slave selling and buying deals in public squares, as reported some time ago in "liberated" Libya, a widesp read exploitation of men, women, and children has been carried out for years at refugee camps worldwide.

El Salvador : Poor families clash over water with real estate consortium (PRIV)
(IPS, Apopa)
Alex Leiva woke up at 4:00 a .m. to perform a key task for his family's survival in the Salvadoran village w here he lives: filling several barrels with the water that falls from the tap only at that early hour every other day.