With August marking 20 years of collaboration, the WTO and the European Law Students Association (ELSA) have concluded a new agreement which will strengthen and expand their cooperation in organizing the annual John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition on WTO Law. A Memorandum of Understanding was (...)
Ann Abunda arrived in Kuwait 18 years ago to work as a domestic worker. Having lived through some challenging experiences, she helped found a thriving organization that advocates for the rights of domestic workers in the country. See the full story on ILO's multimedia storytelling platform (...)
Morocco has notified the Dispute Settlement Body of its decision to appeal the panel report in the case brought by Tunisia in “Morocco — Definitive Anti-Dumping Measures on School Exercise Books from Tunisia” (DS578). The appeal was circulated to WTO members on 4 (...)
After the explosion that devastated parts of the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4th 2020, the International Labour Organization mobilized its Employment Intensive Infrastructure Programme to clear the rubble, and in the process created decent jobs and hope for Lebanese nationals and Syrian (...)
The latest annual report from the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF), launched on 2 August, highlights the continued efforts by developing and least developed countries to strengthening their food safety, animal and plant health capacity despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 (...)
The third of our ILO in Action series of video stories takes us to an ILO refugee project located in Bassikounou, Mauritania. Led by ILO Chief Technical Advisor, Federico Barroeta, the project trains young people in building public infrastructure. In the locality of Lemkhaiss, they are helping (...)
The Lao People’s Democratic Republic is set to become the first least developed country to accede to both the WTO’s Information Technology Agreement (ITA) and ITA Expansion. At successive meetings of the Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products and (...)
The heads of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank Group, World Health Organization and World Trade Organization launched a new website on 30 July which will serve as a platform for information on access to COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics and on the activities of the (...)
WTO members examined Timor-Leste’s trade regime and noted the progress in its market access negotiations at the 29 July meeting of the Working Party on the Accession of Timor-Leste under the chairmanship of Ambassador Rui Macieira of Portugal. Timor-Leste, a least-developed country (LDC), (...)