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SUNS # 8473 Thursday 1 June 2017
 
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Trade : Permanent solution for PSH seems unlikely at MC11 (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
Major developed nations, and some of their allies in the South are refusing to engage in substantive discussions on the mandated permanent solution for public stockholding programmes for food security, and a successful outcome is unlikely at the WTO's eleventh ministerial meeting in Buenos Aires in December.

United Nations : Proposed UN pay cuts threaten work stoppage in Geneva (PRIV)
(IPS, New York)
Facing significant reductions in US financial contributions from a politically-unpredictable Donald Trump administration, the UN Secretariat is gearing itself for a rash of austerity measures and budgetary cuts, including downsizing peacekeeping operations and cuts in development aid, reproductive health and overseas travel.

United Nations : The worsening humanitarian crisis in Syria (PRIV)
(IPS, New York)
The cruel conflict in Syria continues to tear families apart, inflicts brutal suffering on the innocent, and leaves them pleading for protection and justice.

Chile : Defence of right to water drives call for land reform (PRIV)
(IPS, Santiago)
Water at high prices, sold as a market good, and small farmers almost a species in extinction, replaced by seasonal workers, are the visible effects of the crisis in rural Chile, 50 years after a land reform which postulated that "the land is for those who work it."

Africa : Formalising informal trade - good for African women? (PRIV)
(IPS, Rome)
Women constitute the largest share of informal traders in Africa - about 70 per cent in Southern Africa and more than half in other parts of this vast continent made up of 54 states, home to over 1.2 billion people.


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