As the G8 summit opens today in Genoa, Italy, leaders of the world's most industrialized nations are this evening expected to "formally unveil" the Global AIDS and Health Fund, intended to battle HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in the developing world.

At the World Conference Against Racism, the People's Movement for Human Rights Education will be holding a one day workshop on Breaking Through the Vicious Cycle of Humiliation: Strategies for Racial Justice Through Human Rights Education. The tentative dates of the event are September 2nd or 3rd and it is a complimentary activity to the WCAR.

Even though the world is incomparably richer than ever before, ours is also a world of extraordinary deprivation and of staggering inequality, Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, writes in the International Herald Tribune.

The 2001 summit in Genoa this week will be a crucial test of the ability of participating nations to group around a common agenda on global economic governance. As protesters on Genoa's streets will make clear, the fundamental challenge facing the G8/G7 leaders is to address mounting concerns about economic globalisation and the power of transnational corporations, argues Tom Barry.

In advance of a major international conference
on racism, Human Rights Watch today called for reparations to counter the most severe continuing effects of slavery, segregation, and other
extreme forms of racism.

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