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.

About 27 million people are shackled in conditions akin to slavery around the world today. This number is higher than during the heyday of the colonial slave trade, says Dinyar Godrej in the latest online edition of New Internationalist.