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UN forum to examine how to address human rights concerns of globalization

24 July 2002
Representatives of governments and civil society are set to examine how to create a dialogue within the United Nations human rights system over concerns about globalization.

Globalization ‘best hope’ to cure world’s problems, Annan tells World Economic Forum

4 February 2002
Rather than being the cause of poverty and other social ills, globalization offered the best hope of overcoming such problems, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the World Economic Forum in New York today as he urged business leaders to do more to ensure that all the world’s people benefit from the phenomenon.