Civil society asks WTO members to raise concerns about ‘lop-sided’ Nairobi agreement

Organisations write letter calling on developing member nations to raise issue at General Council meet on Wednesday

Waking up to ACTA

Let's also protest at WTO

Discriminatory WTO regime towards India is responsible for the farmers' plight

Rein in dairy exports to our continent: African farmers to EU

African dairy farmers protested outside the European Union HQ to demand that they don’t over-produce milk and then flood African markets

Energy in news on May 4

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on energy

Africa reinforces its position few hours before WTO Ministerial Conference

Africa would not adopt rules and decisions that would restrict governments from formulating policies to industrialise, create jobs and move up in …

The war for intellectual property

Geopolitics of Europe and the Iron Law of Evolutionary Biology

Any alternative to the current European Union is the grand accommodation of either France or Germany with Russia

डब्ल्यूटीओ व्यापारिक वार्ता बंद कर महामारी बचाव पर लगाए ध्यान, 400 नागरिक समितियों ने लिखा पत्र

एकतरफा प्रतिबंध जो देशों को आवश्यक चिकित्सा आपूर्ति प्राप्त करने से रोकते हैं, उन्हें समाप्त किया जाना चाहिए

WTO Ministerial Conference: India objects to agriculture draft text

India believes that some members are pushing for an accelerated phasing out of agriculture export subsidy

ब्राजील के राष्ट्रपति से क्या चाहते हैं किसान संगठन?

किसान संगठनों ने गणतंत्र दिवस समारोह में मुख्य अतिथि बन कर आ रहे ब्राजील के राष्ट्रपति पर दबाव डालने के लिए प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ...

New ruse in Big Pharma's old game

Drug multinationals are lobbying for a devious patent linkage system to block the entry of competitive generics

COVID-19: WTO pushes long-term agenda of liberalising MSMEs

World Trade Organisation recommends digitalisation, transparency, trade facilitation and finance of MSMEs to revive economy

'Dolphin-safe' labels for tuna held illegal

World Trade Organisation says US policy restricts tuna trade

Secretive tribunals, hidden damages

Canadian academic Gus Van Harten is well known for his efforts to reform the global investment treaty regime through his research papers, …

India’s many investment treaties make it vulnerable

Senior international lawyer Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, who heads the investment programme of the International Institute on Sustainable …