Acclaimed actor Yalitza Aparicio, of the Oscar-winning film Roma, on International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples says that hate and discrimination has no place in the world. The rights of indigenous people must be (...)
A new declaration for the future of work was adopted at the 108th session of the International Labour Conference. It reinvigorates the ILO’s mandate for social justice and will guide the work of the ILO as it begins its second (...)
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 15 August 2019, 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 (...)
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 9 August 2019, 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 (...)
Australia is donating over AUD 1 million (approximately CHF 705,000) to help developing and least-developed countries (LDCs) engage more actively in global agricultural trade and participate in fisheries subsidies negotiations taking place in (...)
The WTO on 31 July launched a new dataset covering the services exports and imports of 200 economies from 2005 to 2017. It features the first-ever comprehensive estimate of how much services are traded by sector through the four modes of supply as defined in the WTO’s General Agreement on Trade (...)
Some 30 representatives of least developed countries (LDCs) resident in Geneva participated in a workshop on trade and environment on 26 July 2019 at the WTO. The workshop was chaired by Ambassador Léopold Ismael Samba, Ambassador of the Central African Republic and Chair of the WTO’s Committee (...)
Thirty participants attended a two-month Advanced Trade Policy Course (ATPC) in French from 3 June to 26 July 2019 at the WTO’s headquarters in Geneva. The course was closed by H.E. Mr Didier Chambovey, Switzerland’s Permanent Representative to the WTO, and Mr Karl Brauner, Deputy (...)