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Haiti Celebrates Its 200th Anniversary of Freedom from Slavery; Aristede Says Country Still Enslaved by World Economic System  Scott Wilson (Washington Post, November 21, 2003. You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

Poverty & the Lack of Economic Mobility in Brazil: One Family's Story John Jeter (Washington Post, November 13, 2003. You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

The 1981 Murder of 35 Students in One Iraqi High School by Hussein Secret Police (for Painting Anti-Government Graffiti) Now Remembered by Relatives and Friends Peter Finn (Washington Post, November 1, 2003. You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

Politicians, Many Others Killed in Guatemala: Resurgence of Military Worried About Being Brought to Trial for Past Killings, Drug Organizations, Ineffectual Judicial System Blamed Mary Jordan  (Washington Post, October 26, 2003. You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.) 

A New Beginning for the World Trade Organization After Cancun  Mark Ritchie and Kristin Dawkins (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, October 26, 2003)

Bolivian Leader Forced Out Over Plan to Export Natural Gas, New President Pledges Unity BBC (October 18, 2003)

World Trade Talks Collapse BBC (September 15, 2003)

Walkout Shadows Free Trade's Future  Paul Blustein Washington Post, September 16, 2003. (You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

Brazilians Soured by U.S. Sugar Tariffs John Jeter  Washington Post, September 10, 2003. (You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

WTO Votes to Bypass Patents on Medicines for AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis for Some Poor Nations Wire Services Washington Post, August 31, 2003. (You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

Time to Stop Dumping on the World's Poor Kevin Watkins and Joachim von Braun  August 29, 2003

Cancun Trade Negotiations: No to Investment Negotiations  Mariama Williams Center of Concern, August 14, 2003

The Millennium Challenge Account: Unlearning How to Make Aid Work?  Aldo Caliari (Center of Concern, August 6, 2003.)

Argentina Didn't Fall on Its Own. Wall Street Pushed Debt Till the Last Paul Blustein  Washington Post, August 3, 2003. (You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

Malnutrition Blights Mexico's Young Mary Jordan Washington Post, June 9, 2003. (You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

Key Ocean Fish Species Decline by 90% Due to Commercial Fishing, Study Finds Rick Weiss Washington Post, May 15, 2003. (You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

Trade Accords Become Foreign Policy Tool: Pact With War Supporter Singapore Gets Expedited, but Deal With Opponent Chile Is Delayed  Paul Blustein (Washington Post, April 29, 2003. You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

Oil Field Suppliers Gave Hussein Kickbacks Peter S. Goodman (Washington Post, May 7, 2003. You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

Iraqis Break Silence About Secret Graves  Scott Wilson (Washington Post, May 5, 2003. You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

Photo: Andrea Bruce Woodall/Washington Post

Some Iraqis who lost loved ones during the rule of Saddam Hussein gather around bones found in a mass grave in the town of Hilla

Race Is On to Locate Hussein's Billions;  With No Authority to Stop Them, Looters Plunder Baghdad;  Tortured, Brother Executed, Son Shot, Woman Now Lives in Abandoned Baath Party Headquarters  (Various authors. Washington Post, April 11-12, 2003. You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

Pool Photo: Terry Richards

Saddam Hussein's luxury yacht, al Mansur, was bombed while it was moored in the southern Iraq city of Basra. The vessel is part of a family fortune estimated to be worth between $2 billion and $10 billion. Investigators are in a race to track down and freeze that wealth.

Harmful Economic Systems: the Major Impediment to Peoples Welfare and Development (Updated September 20, 2003)

Will There be Famine in Iraq or Mass Migration to Other Countries? Humanitarian Times (April 5, 2003)

Trade Brings Riches, but Not to Mexico's Poor  Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan  (Washington Post, March 30, 2003. You will leave this site and be required to register [once] with the Post.)

Iraqis' Fear of Walking Away Empty-handed Turns Aid Mission into Chaos  David Finkel (Washington Post, March 29, 2003.) The Impact of War in Iraq  Richard Garfield (Humanitarian Times, March 29, 2002) Lawlessness Spreads in Villages: As Bandits Rove, U.S., British Forces Blamed for Not Maintaining Order  Keith B. Richberg (Washington Post, March 29, 2003) 

Iraq:  Focus at U.N. Turns to Emergency Assistance, Iraq's Recovery  Peter Slevin and Colum Lynch (Washington Post, March 19, 2003.) On the Eve of War with Iraq: Humanitarian Updates (Humanitarian Times, March 15, 2003) Impact of a New War on Iraqi Children Would Be Worse than 1991, Study Finds  (February 22, 2003.)  Full U.S. Control Planned for Iraq  Karen DeYoung and Peter Slevin (Washington Post, February 21, 2003) Turkey Asks for Billions from U.S. to Allow Invasion Force Use of Turkish Soil--Deal Near Keith B. Richberg and Peter Slevin (Washington Post, February 22, 2003) U.N. Lacks Funds to Assist in Expected Huge Humanitarian Crisis in the Event of War with Iraq  Colum Lynch (Washington Post, February 14, 2003.)

U.S. Troops Also Sent to Philippines, Colombia to Support Counterinsurgency Efforts (Washington Post, February 22, 2003)

Can Remittances Break the Cycle of Poverty in El Salvador?  Amy L. Damon (January 20, 2003) More on Mickey Leland Hunger Fellows

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