A Joint Action Group, set up to review the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world’s transport workers and the global supply chain, encourages all actors to apply internationally agreed protocols and standards and take proactive and concrete actions for future (...)
The fifth review of the trade policies and practices of the Dominican Republic takes place on 24 and 26 January 2023. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report by the Government of the Dominican (...)
Quality education and decent work for teachers are the foundation of social and economic progress. As technology transforms education worldwide, investments are needed to ensure everyone has the opportunity to access education from school age and throughout the life-cycle, to develop the skills (...)
Addressing a group of ministers on 21 January at the Agriculture Ministers’ Conference 2023, Deputy Director-General Jean-Marie Paugam highlighted the importance of leveraging trade to achieve sustainable and resilient food systems at a time when the world is facing the challenges of food (...)
At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos this week, Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala urged governments to respond to growing fragmentation by strengthening multilateralism and making a success of the WTO’s upcoming 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13), building on the unprecedented (...)
On 20 January, Switzerland became the first WTO member to formally submit its acceptance of the WTO’s new Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, paving the way for the historic agreement for ocean sustainability to enter into force. Swiss Minister Guy Parmelin, Head of the Federal Department of (...)
At the eighth meeting of the Working Party on the Accession of the Union of the Comoros on 19 January, WTO members called on the Government of Comoros to intensify its efforts towards concluding accession negotiations. The delegation of Comoros committed to carrying out in the coming months the (...)
The government of Austria has contributed EUR 200,000 (approximately CHF 200,000) in 2023 to the Global Trust Fund to support the latest phase of the WTO Chairs Programme, an initiative that seeks to boost trade-related academic activities in developing countries and least-developed countries (...)
The meeting follows the 2022 Global Labour Agreement (GLA) between the World Leagues Forum (WLF) and the Fédération Internationale des Associations de Footballeurs Professionnels (FIFPRO).