Members continued discussions on the role of intellectual property amid a pandemic and how the WTO and other stakeholders can engage to ensure secure and rapid access to vaccines and other medical products needed to combat COVID-19. At a meeting of the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of (...)
After falling sharply during the global pandemic, world services trade appears to be in a recovery phase, according to the WTO’s Services Trade Barometer, which has recently risen firmly above trend. However, continued weakness in some sectors and an uneven distribution of COVID-19 vaccines cast (...)
سازمان بینالمللی کار (س.ب.ک) روزهای دوشنبه تا جمعه ۱۷ تا ۲۱ ماه می سال ۲۰۲۱ نشستی فنی به صورت مجازی در مورد «آینده کار در بخش آموزش» برگزار خواهد کرد. بر اساس اطلاعیهای که سازمان بینالمللی کارفرمایان (س.ب.کا) به کانون عالی انجمنهای صنفی کارفرمایی ایران (کعاصکا) ارسال کرده است، هدف این نشست: بررسی موضوعهای حرفهای و کاری مرتبط (...)
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 19 March 2021, of the Dispute Settlement Body, which consists of all WTO members and oversees legal disputes among them. The meeting notice is circulated in the form of a document officially (...)
Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on 9 March called on COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers to do more to ramp up production in developing countries to combat the vaccine supply shortage that is excluding many lower-income nations from access. In remarks to an event hosted by the UK think tank (...)
The participants in the negotiations for an agreement on investment facilitation for development held another negotiating meeting on 8-9 March 2021, which saw steady progress and a high level of engagement in the discussions. The progress laid the ground for the coordinator, Ambassador Mathias (...)
On the occasion of 2021 International Women’s Day on 8 March, WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said: “The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened inequalities of every kind. But perhaps no divide has deepened more than that between men and (...)
On International Women's Day, female leaders from the ILO give their perspective on the qualities women bring to leadership around the world. Featuring Martha Newton, ILO Deputy Director-General for Policy, Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa, ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Cynthia (...)
Iconic actor Sophia Loren calls for stronger social security policies, advancing women in leadership roles and more action to build a better future of work.