Trade : US protects home market, wants more access from South for GSP (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
As the United States intensifies its trad e wars with China and several other countries, with its "America First" and using spurious and fraudulent "national security" grounds to protect domestic ind ustries, the Trump administration is simultaneously demanding enhanced market access from developing countries for granting them benefits of the generalized sys tem of preferences (GSP), trade envoys told SUNS.

United Nations : US withdraws from Human Rights Council (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Geneva)
The United States has announced its withdra wal from the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), accusing it of "chronic bias" again st Israel while being a protector of human rights abusers and claiming amongst others that the US call for reform has gone unheeded.

Opinion : Three countries protect half the world's new refugees (PRIV)
(IPS, Oslo)
Turkey, Bangladesh and Uganda alone received over half of all new refugees last year. Never before has th e world registered a larger number of people displaced by war and persecution.

Ethiopia : To return land in bid for peace with Eritrea (PRIV)
(IPS, Badme)
The utterly inconsequential- looking Ethiopian border town of Badme is where war broke out in 1998 betwe en Ethiopia and Eritrea, lasting two years and devastating both countries.