Twenty-eight participants from 15 French-speaking African members of the WTO, as well as Haiti, are attending the two-month Regional Trade Policy Course (RTPC) being held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, from 3 February to 27 March 2020. This is the fourth RTPC organized by the WTO in partnership with (...)
The United Kingdom indicated to WTO members today (1 February) that it had withdrawn from the European Union and outlined the implications of this departure for itself and other WTO members. The official WTO communication will be sent to WTO members on Monday 3 February and will be posted at (...)
Members expressed unanimous support for the resumption of Ethiopia’s WTO membership negotiations at the 4th meeting of the Working Party on the country’s accession, held on 30 January 2020. It was the first meeting of the working party in almost eight years. The Ethiopian delegation said it was (...)
Thirty years after the adoption of the only international Convention on the rights of indigenous peoples, a new ILO report finds they are still more likely to be poor and face particular hardships in the world of work.
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo attended a retreat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States on 30 January to discuss the global trade landscape as WTO members prepare for the 12th Ministerial Conference in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan in June (...)
At an event held at the WTO on 30 January, the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) launched its 2020-2024 strategy entitled “Safe and Inclusive Trade Horizons for Developing Countries”.
The United States Department of Agriculture contributed USD 600,000 (approximately CHF 580,000) to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) in 2019 to help developing countries and least-developed countries (LDCs) meet international food safety, animal and plant health standards for (...)
The WTO’s new cohort of Young Professionals was welcomed on 28 January by Director-General Roberto Azevêdo. The 12 participants in the Young Professionals Programme will spend a year in the WTO Secretariat to learn about the organization’s work and contribute to its (...)
طبق معمول هر ساله، نمایندگان تشکلهای کارفرمایی کشورهای عضو سازمان بینالمللی کار، که خرداد ماه هر سال برای شرکت در کنفرانس بینالمللی کار در ژنو دور هم جمع میشوند، در نشستهای سالانه سازمان بینالمللی کارفرمایان نیز شرکت میکنند. به علاوه، سازمانهای منطقهای کارفرمایان نیز از این فرصت برای گردهماییهای سالانه خود استفاده میبرند. (...)