World trade organization
WHO boss says vaccine IP waiver not a property 'snatch'
Waiving intellectual property rights would help meet the 11 billion doses of vaccine the WHO says are needed to protect 70 percent of people in every country by...
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WTO convenes trade ministers to net fisheries deal
The talks aim to ban subsidies that contribute to illegal and unregulated fishing, as well as to overfishing, threatening the industry's sustainability.
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Battle of the bubbly: French champagne makers incensed by Russia law
French producers can still use the word in French, but will also have to write "sparkling wine" in Cyrillic on the back of bottles -- a heresy for brands that say nothing on Earth can match their pizzazz.
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Heads of global organisations issue joint call for vaccine equality
Writing in the Washington Post on Tuesday, the heads of the World Health Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization blamed the gap in vaccination programmes for the emergence of virus variants that have fueled fresh outbreaks in the developing world.
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Ex-world leaders urge US to waive vaccine property rules
In an open letter to President Joe Biden published late Wednesday, the group said it was "gravely concerned by the very slow progress" in scaling up global vaccine access and inoculation in low- and middle-income countries.
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SA and India lead calls for WTO to waive COVID jab IP rights
The intellectual property plan was filed by India and South Africa on 2 October and garnered support from a host of developing countries which - correctly - anticipated being left behind in the vaccination race.
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WTO needs to show results on economic crisis, vaccines: Okonjo-Iweala
Her immediate goals are to ensure vaccines are produced and distributed worldwide, not just for rich nations, and to resist the push towards protectionism that worsened during the pandemic, so that free trade can help the economic recovery.
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Path clears for Nigeria's Okonjo-Iweala as first woman WTO chief
The move marks another sharp split with former president Donald Trump, who paralysed the organisation and opposed the candidacy of the former Nigerian finance minister who was backed by many other countries.
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YONELA DIKO: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the WTO in the era of Trump
A WTO director-general from South Korea, at least in the warped Trump’s America view, would be much more easy to influence and push than a director-general from an African state like Nigeria, writes Yonela Diko.
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Ramaphosa: Africans must rally behind Nigerian candidate for WTO top spot
Nigeria’s Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is one of the two remaining candidates for the position of World Trade Organization director general.
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Nearly half WTO members agree to talks on new e-commerce rules
On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, 76 countries and regions agreed on Friday to start negotiating this year on a set of open and predictable regulations.
