Trade : South stress food security and SSM outcomes at MC11 (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Geneva)
A number of developing countries, at dedicated sessions of the WTO agriculture negotiations last week, stressed on the importance of a permanent solution for public stockholding programmes for food security as well as an effective Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM), and for meaningful outcomes on these issues at the eleventh WTO ministerial conference in Buenos Aires this December.

Climate : US pull-out from Paris deal - what it means (PRIV)
(Martin Khor, Penang)
By withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement, President Donald Trump abdicated not only leadership but membership of the community of nations cooperating to tackle climate change, the most serious crisis facing humanity.

United Nations : Dealing with threats to our existence (PRIV)
(Hardeep Singh Puri, New Delhi)
Threats to our existence and security come from two sources, challenges presented by nature and the elements and those that are man-made. In several respects, the two dangers are umbilically linked.