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 (...)
The WTO has created a new webpage dedicated to the issue of quantitative restrictions, measures imposed by governments limiting the quantity or value of goods that can be traded. Such measures may take different forms (quotas, prohibitions, voluntary export restraints, etc.) and must be (...)
سيصد و بيست و سومين اجلاس هيأت مديره سازمان بينالمللي كار (سبك) به مدت 15 روز از 12 تا 27 مارس 2015(21 اسفند تا 7 فروردين 94) در ژنو برگزار خواهد شد. به همين مناسبت سازمان بينالمللي كارفرمايان (سبكا) در جزوهاي 12 صفحهاي به زبان انگليسي مهمترين قسمتهاي دستوركار اين اجلاس براي اعضاي كارفرماي هيأت مديره را تهيه كرده و در (...)
At its special meeting on 10 March, the Dispute Settlement Body established two panels to study, respectively, complaints by Chinese Taipei against Canada over anti-dumping measures on carbon steel welded pipe, and by Canada against China over anti-dumping measures on cellulose (...)
The advanced course on the TBT Agreement, organized jointly by the Trade and Environment Division and the Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation (ITTC), is taking place in Geneva from 9 to 20 March 2015. A total of 29 participants from around the world, who are involved at a technical (...)
The twelfth review of the trade policies and practices of Japan takes place on 9 and 11 March 2015. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report by the Government of Japan.