Joseph Stiglitz, whose critiques of free market fundamentalism cost him a senior job at the World Bank in 1999 but won him the Nobel Prize for economics last week, has succinct advice for the global justice movement: Keep it up.

On behalf of the International Trade Centre's World Tr@de Net programme, I am pleased to invite you to participate in our e-mail based conference on business and the next WTO Ministerial Conference which will take place on 15-19 October 2001. By registering (at no cost) for this e-discussion, you will receive a daily summary of the debate in one of the languages that can be used in the conference (English, French, and Spanish). You will have the opportunity to respond with your opinion and experiences.

The Global Corruption Report 2001, launched on 15 October 2001, is the new publication of Transparency International (TI), the leading global anti-corruption NGO. It provides an overview of 'the state of corruption' around the globe.

Illegal mining is continuing in the eastern region of Sierra Leone despite government efforts to ban the trade in 'conflict' diamonds.

Accelerating protection of the Earth's ozone layer will be the urgent focus of governmental representatives meeting in Sri Lanka this week. The 13th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol will draw some 400 delegates from 130 countries.

This handbook is intended to be of use to non-governmental organisations and others who wish to address and combat racial discrimination. It provides an overview of the international and regional treaties and standards that prohibit racial discrimination. It also describes the United Nations and regional bodies that play a role in monitoring how states implement many of these human rights standards. The handbook suggests how these bodies can be approached to further the struggle against racial discrimination.

Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo has sent a bill to the National Assembly which seeks the establishment of a National Agency for the Prevention and Control of AIDS (NAPCA), news organisations said.

Centre for Civil Society and Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE. The Global Civil Society Yearbook is envisaged as a landmark publication, which will discuss and clarify the concept of a 'global civil society'. The Yearbook will contribute to the debate about what global civil society is, map and measure it, and examine each year how it is doing. 2001' ISBN: 0-19-924644-0.

After the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Washington on October 6-7 failed to reach agreement on a concerted plan of action, Global Unions called today for joint, co-ordinated and far-reaching economic measures to ensure that the world does not tip yet further into a global recession.

"The world is undergoing a global struggle between diversity and uniformity, cultural liberalism and fundamentalism, democracy and totalitarianism. A struggle about which aspects of each culture can and should be saved, and what aspects may be abandoned to make room for something new and enriching."

On 1 October 2001, the international cocoa and chocolate industry signed a Protocol in the United States to eliminate child slavery in the chocolate industry.

African Ministers and civil society groups are to oppose the launch of a new round of negotiations at the fourth coming World Trade Organisation conference in Doha, capital of the Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar.

Few Arabs share Bin Laden's fundamentalism, but his militancy on Palestine and Iraq strike a chord that resonates widely.

World Trade Organization delegates from 52 developing countries on Sept. 19 asked other WTO ministers to approve a proposal that would clarify language in the Trade-Related Aspects of International Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement to say that TRIPS would "not prevent governments from taking measures necessary to protect public health," including the production or importation of generic AIDS drugs.

Many of the world's largest banks have been ordered by the UK High Court to freeze accounts linked to General Sani Abacha as part of Nigeria's search for more than $3bn looted during the late dictator's rule.

The United States and the other industrial nations should launch a global Marshall Plan to provide everyone on earth with a decent standard of living, argue the Worldwatch Institute.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday urged all countries of the world to join the international fight against terrorism, warning that without united, global action the effort would fail.

The University of Central Florida's College of Education, in conjunction with the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) and Indiana University, will host the 46th annual meeting of CIES in Orlando, Florida on March 6-9, 2002. The theme of the conference is "The social construction of marginality: Globalization's impact on the disenfranchised". Panels, papers, and symposia proposals are due by November 1, 2001.

the New York Times' has decided to create a new global poverty beat in which "meetings of men in suits is not the dominant story line." It's long overdue.

The first ever edition of the Global Corruption Report, the new definitive annual overview of the state of corruption around the globe from Transparency International, will be released on October 15. It features analyses of party funding, money laundering and corruption in the diamond trade, and in-depth regional reports from across the globe, all supplemented by a data and research section. Regional reports also focus on trends in corruption and anti-corruption activities.