Five agencies and their partners operating a programme to help developing countries meet international standards on food safety and animal and plant health have approved plans for 2015–2019 designed to further strengthen safe (...)
WTO members engaged in a discussion on IT security regulations in relation to banking and smartcard chips at the first Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee meeting of 2015 on 18-19 March.
The ILO celebrated International Women’s Day with a panel discussion on: “Women and the Future of Work: Beijing+20 and Beyond”. Participants included ILO Director-General Guy Ryder; Ambassador Regina Maria Cordeiro Dunlop, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United (...)
An Advanced Course on Intellectual Property for Government Officials opened on 16 March 2015, aiming to enhance the capacity of governments in developing countries and in countries with economies in transition to develop national expertise in intellectual property (...)
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 25 March 2015, 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 (...)
ILO News talks to a young Ivorian woman who in a few years went from selling goods at local markets to being a successful entrepreneur whose dreams reach beyond the Ivory Coast.
Tens of thousands of workers are employed in Jordan's fast-growing garment sector. Eighty percent of these workers are migrants. In an effort to improve their living and working conditions, the International Labour Organization initiated the establishment of a workers' center in the (...)
Indonesia notified the WTO Secretariat on 13 March 2015 of a request for consultations with the United States regarding anti-dumping (AD) and countervailing measures applied by the United States on coated paper imported from (...)
As the risks posed by climate change become more prevalent, often the people affected the most have the least capacity to adapt to those risks without help. In Fiji, the ILO's Cash for Work programme brought together government, communities and volunteers to help villagers threatened by (...)