Ambassador Chen Xu entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in 1985.
From 2019 to 2025, he was the Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva and Other International Organizations in Switzerland. (more...)
Statement by the South Centre to the Thirty-sixth Session of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) Geneva, 4 May 2026
The South Centre just delivered its statement to the 36th Session of WIPO's Committee on Development and Intellectual (more...)
Three Decades of Global Engagement: The South Centre’s Contribution to Intellectual Property and DevelopmentBy Nirmalya SyamSouth Centre 30th Anniversary Series No. 2, 30 April 2026
This paper is part of a series of publications made (more...)
UK–India CETA: Patents and International Intellectual Property GovernanceBy Pratyush Nath Upreti & Virender Chandel
This policy brief locates the United Kingdom-India Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement’s (CETA) intellectual property rights (IPRs) (more...)
Statement by the South Centre to the WIPO Assemblies on the Reappointment of the Director General, Daren Tang21 April 2026
The South Centre looks forward to a further engagement of WIPO Director General Daren Tang during his second term with the development dimension (more...)
STATEMENT BY DR. CARLOS CORREA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE SOUTH CENTRE, TO THE MINISTERS AND GOVERNORS MEETING OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL GROUP OF TWENTY-FOUR (G-24)14 April 2026, Washington, D.C.
See the South Centre’s statement to the G-24 below.
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JOINT OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTECOWAS-Led Simultaneous Tax AuditRepublic of Liberia & Republic of Sierra LeoneA Regional Tax Cooperation Initiative Under the ECOWAS Framework
The South Centre is supporting two of its (more...)
Towards an Operative Pathogen ABS System: Implementing the Equal Footing Requirement of Article 12 of the WHO Pandemic AgreementBy Viviana Munoz Tellez, Nirmalya Syam
Multilateral negotiations on the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) system remain (more...)
Input for the Special Rapporteur on the Right to DevelopmentFor the 2026 thematic reports to the Human Rights Council on “Participation in development” and to the United Nations General Assembly on “Peace for development”South Centre (more...)
