The WTO is looking for talented, highly qualified and dynamic individuals to join the 2024 Young Professionals Programme (YPP). A call for applications is now open for the programme, which aims at providing young professionals with an opportunity to develop their skills and gain experience in (...)
The regional launch of Phase II of the ILO Fair Recruitment Initiative is an opportunity to expand the implementation of successful fair recruitment approaches to other countries in Africa
On International Women's Day, actress and activist Sharon Stone calls for a fair, inclusive and safe future of work that fosters equal opportunity and guarantees a real gender equal society.
Speaking at a meeting of the General Council on 6 March, Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala welcomed the constructive spirit demonstrated by members in preparations for the WTO’s 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) in February 2024 and said delivering meaningful and quality outcomes at MC13 is (...)
Deputy Director-General Xiangchen Zhang joined the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, and over 30 United Nations principals on the eve of the Fifth United Nations Conference on LDCs (LDC5) in Doha, Qatar, on 4 March to explore how the international community can strengthen (...)
Trade will play a key role in helping countries meet the Doha Programme of Action for LDCs over the next decade. This is the message the WTO will deliver at the Fifth United Nations Conference on Least-Developed Countries (LDC5), taking place in Doha, Qatar, from 5 to 9 March. Deputy (...)
WTO members taking part in the discussions on investment facilitation for development (IFD) have made steady progress towards finalizing a negotiating text by mid-2023. Delegations held a new round of consultations followed by a plenary meeting on 3 March, where they advanced technical work (...)
The WTO Secretariat on 2 March published a Trade Monitoring Update providing a brief factual overview of trade policy developments following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The note sheds light on trade measures introduced in the context of the war, in particular in the (...)
Deputy Director-General Angela Ellard participated in a session of the Committee on International Trade of the European Parliament in Brussels on 1 March. She discussed the role of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies in improving ocean sustainability and strengthening multilateralism. She also (...)
Deputy Director-General Angela Ellard participated on 1 March in a High-Level Round Table on Restoring Multilateralism and Reinvigorating the WTO organized by the American European Community Association in Brussels, Belgium. DDG Ellard outlined the successful results achieved at the 12th (...)