South Centre Statement to the Fifty-Seventh Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO
The South Centre is participating in the WIPO Assemblies being held from 2 to 11 October 2017 in Geneva. Read the South Centre statement here.
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: Workshop on E-Commerce and Domestic Regulation
Date: Monday, 25 September 2017
Venue: The South Centre, Geneva
Organizers: The South Centre and the Centre for WTO Studies
Alarm as ‘super malaria’ spreads in South East Asia
World running out of antibiotics, says WHO in new reports
Title: Rethinking Development in the Context of the 2030 Agenda – A South Centre interaction with developing country delegations on key issues and challenges ahead in the implementation of the Agenda 2030 and the UNGA 72 session
Date: Thursday, 21 September 2017, 16:00-18:00
Venue: Conference Room D at the UN Headquarters, New York
Organizers: The South Centre
Title: The Elaboration of a Legally Binding Instrument on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises
Date: Monday, 18 September 2017
Venue: UN Headquarters, New York
Organizers: The South Centre, Permanent Missions of Ecuador and South Africa to the United Nations in New York
This update provides a snapshot of the activities of the Development, Innovation and Intellectual Property Programme during the month of August 2017.
Growing impetus to making AMR an integral issue in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Access to and Benefit-Sharing of Marine Genetic Resources beyond National Jurisdiction: Developing a New Legally Binding Instrument
This paper examines the underlying principles and main elements of binding and non-binding international instruments relating to access and benefit-sharing of genetic resources. It discusses the gap left by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and some of the elements that might be considered in developing a new legally-binding instrument on access and benefit-sharing derived from the exploitation of marine genetic resources found in areas beyond national jurisdiction, as mandated by the United Nations General Assembly. (more…)
South Centre Statement at the 12th Session of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement (ACE)
In line with the mandate of the WIPO Development Agenda, WIPO must approach intellectual property enforcement in the context of broader societal interests and especially development-oriented concerns, in accordance with Article 7 of the TRIPS Agreement.
Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea crisis: new drugs needed
