Online registration for this year’s in-person Public Forum must be completed no later than 17 August 2023. Last-minute and onsite registrations will not be accepted for the event, which takes place from 12 to 15 September. Participation at the Forum is free of charge. Travel and accommodation (...)
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 28 July 2023, 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 (...)
Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said on 21 July that digital trade holds great promise to act as a catalyst for inclusive economic growth and sustainable development. “This promise is especially palpable in Africa,” she added. The Director-General was speaking at the launch of a joint (...)
At agriculture negotiating meetings open to all WTO members on 17-18 July, the Chair — Ambassador Alparslan Acarsoy of Türkiye — praised the more concrete discussions among members on possible ways forward in the run-up to the 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) in February 2024. He highlighted (...)
The G20 Labour and Employment Ministers' meeting highlighted the need to sustainably finance social protection, to extend social security to more workers, including in the gig and platform economy, and to address the global skills (...)
Twenty-two government officials from developing and least-developed countries completed on 20 July a four-day training course on trade and gender at the WTO headquarters in Geneva. Participants learned about how to integrate gender issues into trade policy-making and developed new skills to (...)
Speaking at a meeting of the WTO’s Trade Negotiations Committee on 20 July which she chairs, Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala called on members to use a senior government officials’ meeting to take place in October to “narrow down realistic deliverables” for agreement at the WTO’s 13th (...)
The United Arab Emirates Presidency of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) to be held in Dubai from 30 November will introduce into the event thematic discussions on the role of trade as an essential part of the solution to climate change and an enabler of climate-smart growth, (...)
The WTO has published its 2023 Annual Report, providing a comprehensive account of the organization’s activities in 2022 and the early part of 2023. The Report looks back at key events over the past year, such as the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC12), and WTO work in addressing global (...)