South Centre Statement to the 18th session of WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property
The following is the statement delivered on 31 October 2016 by the South Centre to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) at its eighteenth session. The Centre highlights the importance of the WIPO Development Agenda.
This update provides a snapshot of the activities of the Development, Innovation and Intellectual Property Programme during the month of October 2016. (more…)
This update provides a snapshot of the activities of the Development, Innovation and Intellectual Property Programme during the month of September 2016. (more…)
South Centre Statement to the WIPO Assemblies 2016
The statement highlights that the greatest challenge for developing countries and LDCs in the area of intellectual property (IP) is the proliferation of regional and bilateral trade and investment agreements that impose IP obligations, together with the coercive external political and economic pressure to restrain from making use of the flexibilities in the IP system.
Statement by the South Centre on the Report of the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Access to Medicines released on 14 September 2016
The South Centre endorses the report of the United Nations Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Access to Medicines and its call on governments, the United Nations entities and others including the World Trade Organization, to take action on the report’s recommendations. (more…)
This update provides a snapshot of the activities of the Development, Innovation and Intellectual Property Programme during the month of August 2016. (more…)
This update provides a snapshot of the activities of the Development, Innovation and Intellectual Property Programme during the month of July 2016. (more…)
This update provides a snapshot of the activities of the Development, Innovation and Intellectual Property Programme during the month of June 2016. (more…)
This update provides a snapshot of the activities of the Development, Innovation and Intellectual Property Programme during the month of May 2016. (more…)
This update provides a snapshot of the activities of the Development, Innovation and Intellectual Property Programme during the month of April 2016. (more…)
South Centre Statement to the Open-Ended Meeting of WHO Member States: Follow-up of the report of the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination (CEWG)
At the open-ended meeting of WHO Member States on the follow-up of the report of the CEWG, the South Centre called for concrete discussions to start negotiations on a binding legal instrument on R&D financing and coordination. (more…)
This update provides a snapshot of the activities of the Development, Innovation and Intellectual Property Programme during the month of March 2016. (more…)
