Social Development

SC Side Event to the UNGA 72, 18 September 2017

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

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Analytical Note, July 2017

The WTO’s Fisheries Subsidies Negotiations

Attempts are made to revitalise the fisheries subsidies negotiations at the WTO with the aim of achieving an outcome at the 11th WTO Ministerial Conference in December 2017.

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Research Paper 62R, July 2017

Intellectual Property in the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Increasing the Barriers for the Access to Affordable Medicines (revised)

Most free trade agreements (FTAs) signed by the United States, the European Union and the members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in the last 15 years contain chapters on intellectual property rights with provisions applicable to pharmaceuticals. Such provisions considerably expand the rights recognized to pharmaceutical companies under the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) established in the context of the World Trade Organization (WTO). (more…)