Representatives from Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions (AICESIS), the Social Council of Greece (OKE) and the ILO will gather in Athens on 23-24 November to discuss how social dialogue can help to shape a future of work that leaves no one behind (the event will be (...)
The second review of the trade policies and practices of Cambodia takes place on 21 and 23 November 2017. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report by the Government of Cambodia.
The Canadian Government is contributing CAD 100,000 (approximately CHF 77,000) to help developing and least-developed countries (LDCs) participate in the eleventh WTO Ministerial Conference (MC11), which will take place on 10-13 December 2017 in Buenos Aires, (...)
Despite a significant fall in youth unemployment since the height of the economic crisis in 2009, persistent unemployment and a lack of quality job opportunities continue to hamper young people’s quest for decent work.
Despite a significant fall in youth unemployment since the height of the economic crisis in 2009, persistent unemployment and a lack of quality job opportunities continue to hamper young people’s quest for decent work.
Despite a significant fall in youth unemployment since the height of the economic crisis in 2009, persistent unemployment and a lack of quality job opportunities continue to hamper young people’s quest for decent work.
At an informal meeting of the Working Party on the Accession of Iraq held on 17 November 2017, WTO members welcomed Iraq’s stated determination to resume its WTO accession process after nine years of dormancy. The meeting further provided the opportunity for the government of Iraq and members to (...)
In the run-up to the WTO 11th Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires in December, WTO members worked to produce streamlined negotiating texts covering various proposals for subsidy prohibitions relating to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and overfished stocks at the 13-17 (...)
Four African cotton producers — Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali, known as the Cotton Four — urged WTO members to increase assistance for enhancing cotton production, improving local processing capacity and developing cotton-to-textile value chains in Africa and to curb domestic support to the (...)
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 22 November 2017, 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 (...)