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 (...)
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 (...)
ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, was joined by delegates to the International Labour Conference, in signing a signature panel symbolizing support for the 50 for Freedom campaign to end modern slavery. The campaign has the goal of encouraging 50 member States to ratify, by 2018, the Protocol to (...)
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)
The ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, called for a global initiative on the future of work led by the ILO's tripartite constituents. Addressing delegates at the 104th International Labour Conference, he also outlined an agenda that includes a proposed international labour standard on the (...)
Addressing delegates at the 104th International Labour Conference, he also outlined an agenda that includes a proposed international labour standard on the transition from the informal to formal economy. (Closed Captions available)
The Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) adopted on 29 May the Appellate Body reports in the disputes “United States – Certain Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) Requirements – Recourse to Article 21.5 (compliance panel) of the Dispute Settlement Understanding” by Canada and (...)