Belize and Switzerland have become the 13th and 14th WTO members to ratify the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA). Both countries submitted their instrument of acceptance of the TFA to the WTO secretariat on 2 September.
The Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), on 31 August, established a panel to examine the complaint brought by Indonesia against the European Union over anti-dumping measures on biodiesel from Indonesia. Another three requests for a panel were initially rejected by the (...)
A technical workshop on patentability criteria, jointly organized by the World Health Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the WTO, will take place on 27 October 2015 at the WTO Headquarters.
Five years after they launched a stepped-up programme of trilateral cooperation, the World Health Organization (WHO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the WTO will hold a technical symposium on “Public Health, Intellectual Property and TRIPS at 20: Innovation and Access to (...)
سازمان بین المللی کار نمایندۀ سازمان ملل متحد در برخورد با مسائل کارگری، به خصوص استانداردهای بین المللی کار، حمایت اجتماعی و فرصت های شغلی برای همگان است. سازمان بین المللی کار 186 کشور عضو دارد: 185 کشور از 193 کشور عضو سازمان ملل متحد به علاوه جزایر کوک از اعضای سازمان بین المللی کار می باشند. در سال 1969، سازمان بین المللی کار، (...)
WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo 26 August welcomed the commitment by Honduras to move ahead on acceptance of the new Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), citing its importance for regional integration in Central America. During his visit to Tegucigalpa, the Government of Honduras sent the (...)
Professor Jayati Ghosh of Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, explains how recognizing and formalizing work in water benefits workers and improves economic growth.
In his speech in Costa Rica during his current official visit to Central America, WTO Director General, Roberto Azevêdo, talked about the importance of the early ratification of the Trade Facilitation Agreement and the recent expansion of the Information Technology Agreement as a good (...)
The WTO Secretariat has circulated a meeting notice and list of items proposed for the next meeting, on 31 August 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 (...)
A total of 90 sessions will be held at the 2015 WTO Public Forum from 30 September to 2 October at the WTO’s headquarters in Geneva. Entitled “Trade Works”, the Forum will focus on how and why trade works, and for whom. The sessions will be organized by a wide range of participants, including WTO (...)