UN probes sugar industry claims
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A UN agency is investigating claims a key consultation on sugar consumption was funded by the sugar industry.
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The World Trade Organisation has backed Brazilian complaints against US cotton subsidies and European Union support for sugar producers.
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Imperial Sugar appears to be a lot sweeter than it was a year ago, but challenges remain.
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The World Trade Organisation (WTO)  launched an investigation on Monday into multi-billion dollar  U.S. farm subsidies that Brazil and Canada say break  international trading rules.
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A U.N. procurement official has   been referred to U.S. prosecutors over allegations he steered   U.N. contracts to an Indian government firm, the United Nations   and diplomatic sources said on Friday.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) has again declared some European Union sugar exports illegal, dealing a new blow to the bloc's lavish system of farm subsidies, a trade source close to the case said Wednesday.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 8  (IPS) - Sugar producing countries and civil society groups  have cautiously welcomed a WTO  ruling against the European  Union's controversial sugar regime as a "triumph"  for  most developing countries, but warn that poorest sugar  producers could be hit  hardest.
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The United Nations is investigating reports that Rwandan soldiers carried out human rights abuses against civilians in Democratic Republic of Congo last month, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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The United Nations needs greater  investigative powers to probe its own activities and root out  fraud, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday.
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: UN secretary-general Kofi Annan said yesterday he was âdisappointedâ his son did not tell him the full story of his ties to a firm involved in the UN oil-for-food programme, now under investigation.
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The WTO probes US support for soya, wheat, corn, rice and other crops, after complaints from Canada and Brazil.
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Our position is: United Nations must be more open about mistakes made in oil-for-food scandal. When the United Nations in 1996 began allowing Iraq to sell oil to raise money to buy food and medicine, the program
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The U.N. inquiry into  allegations of corruption in the now-defunct Iraqi oil-for-food  program on Thursday released the names of some 4,500 firms that  did business with Baghdad but did not rule on their guilt or  innocence.
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The Federal Government has hailed a World Trade Organisation ruling that European subsidies for sugar producers are in breach of international trade rules.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (24/11/04) - The UN is investigating some 150 allegations of sexual abuse by its civilian staff and soldiers serving as peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with some offenses allegedly recorded on videotape.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) has  again declared some European Union sugar exports illegal,  dealing a new blow to the bloc's lavish system of farm  subsidies, a trade source close to the case said Wednesday.
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United Nations officials are investigating reports that Hutu extremists have attacked Rwandan villages from bases in eastern Congo.