CALL FOR PAPERS – Impact of Two Pillar Solution on Developing Countries
CALL FOR PAPERS
Impact of Two Pillar Solution on Developing Countries
Deadline: 30 January 2022
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Vacancy Announcement
Vacancy Announcement:
Local Consultant – Sectoral Policy Advisor for the Enhancement of the GCF Portfolio in Lebanon
Lebanon’s Green Climate Fund Readiness Project
Application should be sent in English at applications(at)southcentre.int (stating ‘Sectoral Policy Advisor – Lebanon, in the subject) no later than CET 24.00 hrs. on December 21, 2021.
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Vacancy Announcement
Vacancy Announcement:
Local Consultant – Private Sector Networking Officer
Lebanon’s Green Climate Fund Readiness Project
Application should be sent in English at applications(at)southcentre.int (stating ‘Private Sector – Lebanon in the subject) no later than CET 24.00 hrs. on 21 December 2021.
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Vacancy Announcement
Vacancy Announcement:
Local Consultant – Research Officer
Lebanon’s Green Climate Fund Readiness Project
Application should be sent in English at applications(at)southcentre.int (stating ‘Research Officer – Lebanon in the subject) no later than CET 24.00 hrs. on 21 December 2021.
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Vacancy Announcement
Vacancy Announcement:
International Consultant – Climate Finance Expert
Lebanon’s Green Climate Fund Readiness Project
Application should be sent in English at applications(at)southcentre.int (stating ‘Climate Finance Expert – Lebanon’ in the subject) no later than CET 24.00 hrs. on 21 December 2021.
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Statement to the WHA SS, 29 November 2021
South Centre Statement to the Special Session of the WHA
This WHA is convening in special session with the promise of starting a process that could ultimately lead to saving millions of lives.
The most pressing priority is to get vaccines and other essential tools to the people that need them now, in all corners of the world. Redoubling efforts to help countries that are struggling the most to respond to the pandemic is an ethical imperative and would serve to contain the global spread of the virus and its new variants.
STATEMENT ON THE DOHA DECLARATION ON TRIPS AND PUBLIC HEALTH ON ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY, 14 November 2021
STATEMENT BY THE SOUTH CENTRE ON THE WTO DOHA MINISTERIAL DECLARATION ON TRIPS AND PUBLIC HEALTH ON ITS TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY
Twenty years since its adoption on this day, the WTO Doha Declaration on TRIPS & Public Health has helped to advance TRIPS flexibilities in national laws, judgements, panel reports and FTAs. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed significant challenges to the full use of TRIPS flexibilities that should be addressed by WTO Members.
Statement for COP 26, 3 November 2021
Developing Countries Require Appropriate Means of Implementation to Deal with the Climate Crisis
South Centre Statement
26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 26)
Glasgow, 31 October – 12 November 2021
Climate finance is crucial to support developing countries’ efforts to implement their NDCs. Climate finance must not increase developing countries’ debt distress. Art.6 negotiations should increase the level of ambition.
Statement, 25 October 2021
South Centre Statement to the 7th Session of the Open Ended Intergovernmental Working Group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights
The South Centre, as the intergovernmental organization of developing countries, has keenly followed the evolution of the process towards the adoption of a Legally Binding Instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises since its inception and over the various sessions of this Working Group.
We welcome the strengthening of the text of the draft LBI with contributions of State delegations and civil society organisations, particularly from the Global South. The third revised draft of the LBI being discussed this week reflects many of the comments and textual suggestions made in the previous sessions of the Working Group and streamlines the provisions for their effective implementation. The process now moves into a very important phase with State-led direct substantive intergovernmental negotiations and raises hopes for the adoption of the LBI in the near future.
Statement, 13 October 2021
Statement by the South Centre on the Two Pillar Solution to Address the Tax Challenges Arising from the Digitalisation of the Economy
The South Centre takes note of the Statement by 136 member jurisdictions of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework (IF) made on 8 October 2021, on a two-pillar solution to address the tax challenges arising from the digitalisation of the economy. The broad architecture of the agreement is now in place and it is clear to developing countries what they can expect from it.
Statement, October 2021
STATEMENT BY DR. CARLOS CORREA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE SOUTH CENTRE, TO THE MINISTERS AND GOVERNORS MEETING OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL GROUP OF TWENTY-FOUR (G24)
The world economy is showing signs of recovery, yet very uneven, and is facing a multitude of challenges including rising inequality within and among countries, vaccine nationalism in the face of raging COVID-19 variants, escalated debt burden for many developing countries, ravages of climate change and weakening multilateralism.
Now, we are at a pivotal moment to mend and fix the global systemic problems so that we can recover better, greener, more inclusively, and more resiliently. It is time to address root causes of the fragility, instability, divergence and asymmetries of the global economy.
Call for abstracts – Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health, 20 October 2021 deadline
Call for Abstracts – 20 years of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health
Deadline: 20 October 2021
The WTO Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health (‘Doha Declaration’) represented a groundbreaking moment in the history of intellectual property (IP) international policy, recognizing that Member States should not be prevented from taking measures to protect public health, reaffirming the right to use the so-called TRIPS flexibilities to that aim, such as compulsory licensing and parallel imports. The impact of IP protection on public health has continued to be at the forefront of debate to ensure equitable and affordable access to medicines and other medical products globally, and especially in the global South. The Covid-19 pandemic brought new challenges. Solutions are being discussed beyond use of TRIPS flexibilities, such as a temporary waiver to TRIPS during the pandemic.
At the 20th anniversary of the WTO Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health, the South Centre opens a call for abstracts for new research in the field of IP and public health. The selected abstracts will be invited to write full papers, which will be presented at an international event in 2022 organized by the South Centre to commemorate such date and subsequent publication by the South Centre as open access. A small honorarium will also be offered for completed full papers that meet the South Centre standards of publication.