Title: Setting Global Trade Rules on Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) – Opportunities, Challenges, Perspectives and the impact on developing countries, specific to Small, vulnerable economies (SVEs), small island developing States (SIDs), and Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
Date: 1 April 2019
Venue: Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Title: African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States Refresher: WTO Agriculture Negotiations
Date: 17 October 2018
Venue: WTO Room XX, William Rappard Centre, Geneva, Switzerland
Title: Meeting on Agricultural Market Access
Date and Time: Monday, 8th October 2018, 15:00-18:00
Venue: World Trade Organisation, Geneva
Organizer: African Group
Title: WTO Rules for Ensuring Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: An SDG Compatibility Analysis
Date: 3 October 2018
Venue: The World Trade Organization, Geneva
Organizer: Third World Network (TWN) India, Bangladesh Krishok Federation, More and Better Network
Title: #Leave No Woman Behind – Furthering gender equality in the digital economy
Date: 4 October 2018
Venue: The World Trade Organization, Geneva
Organizer: Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era Network (DAWN), Federación Argentina de Empleados de Comercio y Servicios (FAECYS)
Title: G-24 Technical Group Meeting
Date: 27-28 February 2018
Venue: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Organizer: Intergovernmental Group of Twenty Four
The 11th Ministerial meeting of the WTO is fast approaching. In Buenos Aires, Ministers will take decisions on a variety of issues including agriculture, fish subsidies, domestic regulation and trade facilitation in services, special and differential treatment, TRIPS, and e-commerce.
Title: Parallel Session on Sectoral Connect in South-South Cooperation Banking, Finance, Investment and the Legal Regimes
Date: 24-25 August 2017
Venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
Organizers: Network of Southern Think-Tanks (NeST), Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), Ministry of External Affairs, India, United Nations, Forum for Indian Development Cooperation (FIDC)
Background
The workshop was co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Ecuador and South Africa to the United Nations in Geneva during the week of the 25th Ordinary Session of the Human Rights Council.
The workshop aimed at contributing to clarifying the ways in which a legally binding instrument on business and human rights would provide a framework for enhanced State action to protect rights and prevent the occurrence of human rights abuses. It also aimed at discussing the difficulties faced by developing countries when (more…)
The South Centre, represented by Viviana Munoz, Manager IAKP, participated in the Third Meeting of the Open-ended Ad hoc Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ICNP 3) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (more…)
