United Nations

Radicals return to the UN November 2009
While the G8 and G20 meetings this year have sought to keep power in their own hands, a UN summit on the economic crisis in June raised very different proposals. Nick Dearden assesses the chances for real change in the global economy as a result

Climate of change December 2008
As the UN climate conference gathers in Poland, Janet Redman considers the prospects for a new deal on the climate

Woman for Sale May 2000
The selling of women into prostitution has been growing across Europe during the past decade, but rather than solve the problem the international community has become complicit with the traffickers in Bosnia, reports John McGhie