The deadline for submitting proposals for the WTO’s Public Forum has been extended to 19 June 2015. This year’s Forum, whose theme is “Trade Works”, will be held at the WTO’s headquarters in Geneva from 30 September to 2 October.
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo convened a meeting of all WTO members in Geneva today (1 June) to discuss the current state of play in negotiations on the work programme to advance the remaining issues of the Doha Development Agenda. Members agreed in November 2014 to agree a work programme by (...)
Viet Nam notified the WTO Secretariat on 1 June 2015 that it has initiated new dispute proceedings against Indonesia regarding Indonesia’s imposition of a safeguard measure on imports of flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy (...)
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, in launching the WTO book “A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO” on 1 June, said that “it was the existence of our efficient and effective dispute settlement mechanism that helped us to curb potentially disastrous protectionist forces during a dangerous (...)
At a session open to all WTO members on 1 June, the Chairman of the Non-Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) Negotiating Group, Ambassador Remigi Winzap of Switzerland, informed members that the situation regarding the establishment of a post-Bali work programme by the end of July had not changed (...)
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo provided WTO members with a detailed update on the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement Facility at a meeting with Ambassadors on 1 June. He also welcomed recent announcements of new funding from the United Kingdom and Norway, in addition to that which has already (...)
Ms. Ieva Jaunzeme, State Secretary of the Ministry of Welfare of Latvia, was elected President of the International Labour Conference, which runs from 1-13 June 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Closed Captions available)
Women have made important strides in the boardrooms of today's companies, but the glass ceiling is still far from broken. Deborah France Massin, Director of ILO's Bureau for Employers' Activities, blogs about the remaining challenges to reaching gender parity in (...)