The Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD) initiative held on 8 June a plenary meeting following two days of productive consultations, at which many of the remaining open technical issues in the draft IFD Agreement were resolved. The participants in the talks will hold their next meeting (...)
On the International Day for Domestic Workers, 16 June 2023, the ILO’s Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo calls upon all countries to ratify the International Labour Organization’s Domestic Workers Convention, Number 189.
On World Day Against Child Labour, 12 June 2023, the ILO Director-General, Gilbert Houngo calls on the international community to support greater social justice and step up the fight against child labour.
Discussions on the ten Agreement-specific proposals tabled by the WTO G90 group of developing members continued at a Special Session of the Committee on Trade and Development held on 7 June. With a new submission on sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade, the G90 (...)
Parties to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA 2012) adopted today (7 June) a decision on the terms of North Macedonia’s accession to the GPA. The decision, taken at a meeting of the Committee on Government Procurement, paves the way for North Macedonia to become the 49th WTO member to (...)
The government of Australia is providing AUD 2 million (approximately CHF 1.2 million) to the WTO Fisheries Funding Mechanism to assist developing members and least-developed country members in implementing the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies. Senator the Hon Tim Ayres, Assistant Minister for (...)
The secretariats of the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the WTO will hold a joint webinar on technology transfer from the perspective of practitioners on 27 June 2023.
WTO members reached consensus on 5 June on a slate of names of the chairpersons for the 14 subsidiary bodies that report to the Council for Trade in Goods. The chair of the Goods Council, Ambassador Adamu Mohammed Abdulhamid (Nigeria), thanked delegations for their collaboration and for showing (...)
Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala welcomed a visiting group of more than one hundred master’s students from the Joint University Study Tour (JUST) to the WTO on 5 June. The students met with the Director-General, WTO ambassadors and senior members of the Secretariat to discuss key issues on (...)
The fifteenth review of the trade policies and practices of the European Union takes place on 5 and 7 June 2023. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report by the European Union.