By Mirza Alas and Viviana Muñoz Tellez
On March 1st 2017, the South Centre together with the United Nations (UN) Secretariat of the High Level Panel on Access to Medicines, and co-sponsored by the Governments of India, Brazil and South Africa, held an event on the Report of (more...)
El 10 de enero de 2017 el Grupo de los 77 y China (capítulo de Ginebra) celebró una ceremonia de traspaso en el Palacio de las Naciones en Ginebra (Suiza) para la entrega de mando del embajador de Jamaica, Wayne McCook, al embajador de la República Unida de Tanzanía, Modesto Mero, a la (more...)
A new protectionist device is being planned in the United States that could devastate the exports of developing countries and cause American and other foreign companies to relocate. The complexities and implications of the proposed border adjustment tax are explained in this article. (more...)
UNCTAD organized a special event of the Second Committee of the United Nations General Assembly on 26 October 2016 in New York on “SOVEREIGN DEBT RESTRUCTURINGS: Lessons learned from legislative steps taken by certain countries and other appropriate action to reduce the vulnerability of (more...)
The United States, champion of the free trade paradigm, is itself now criticizing it, with President Trump taking the country on a protectionist road.This article, by a prominent Peruvian economist, points out the flaws of the orthodox paradigm which has caused (more...)
Mr. Donald Trump’s first weeks as US President have sent shockwaves around the world, and it is the developing countries that will be most affected. This article by the South Centre’s Executive Director reviews the implications of Trump’s initial policies, including the blocking of (more...)
By Yuefen Li
Argentina signed an agreement in principle on 29 February 2016 with four “super holdout” hedge funds including NML Capital Ltd, Aurelius Capital, Davidson Kempner and Bracebridge Capital. Buenos Aires would pay them a total of about $4.65 billion, amounting to 75 percent (more...)
A meeting of a UN Human Rights Council working group recently discussed a treaty on the human rights effects of transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises. Below is the third part of the report on the meeting, focusing on discussions concerning the obligations of States (more...)
In a side event during the 28th Session of the Human Rights Council organized by the Permanent Missions of Argentina and Cuba to the United Nations in Geneva, issues pertaining to the consequences of foreign debt on human rights were discussed. The session also addressed the (more...)
Yuefen Li, Special Advisor on Economics and Development Finance of the South Centre, made a presentation at the 14th session of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee held on 25 February 2015 in Geneva, emphasizing the importance of the UN General Assembly process and the need to be (more...)
