Top stories from 15 July update:

Trade/WTO:

• Special WTO Session on TRIPS and Drugs
  (1) A TWN Report on what happened at the Special Session TRIPS Council discussion on TRIPS, Medicine Prices and Public Health (20 June)
  (2) TWN's Briefing Paper on TRIPS, Patents and Access to Medicines: Proposals for Clarification and Reform
  (3) Joint NGO Statement on Patents and Medicines: The WTO Must Act Now (19 June)
  (4) Joint Submission by 47 Developing Countries to the TRIPS Council on TRIPS and Public Health (19 June)
  (5) Africa Group statement
  (6) SUNS article: Patents vs public health issue won't go away
  (7) SUNS article: WTO asked to ensure TRIPS doesn't undermine public health
  
• High-level African meet against negotiating new issues at the WTO
  
• From a bicycle ride (before Seattle) to camel sprint for Doha
• Comprehensive round may lead to comprehensive failure, warning
• Doha preparatory talks show deep divisions on investment issue
• India seeks 'consultations' with Argentina over drug imports
• EU for 'differential pricing' over compulsory licensing
• G-15 for priority to 'implementation', against new issues
• EU promotes restrictive view of TRIPS on access to medicines
• Patents and the high cost of medicines
• WTO debates patents and drugs issue
• Agriculture talks focus on tariffs, TRQs, amber box subsidies
• Why civil society opposes a new round
• WTO secretariat uses expected slowdown to push for a new round
• WTO chief claims Vajpayee supports new round
• LDC meet ends with programme of action, and 'deliverables'
• Informal talks on implementation, Singapore issues
• Is there advantage for LDCs in a new round?
• OECD ministers call for new round of trade talks at Doha
• Statement: Patents and medicines: The WTO must act now! Sign on here
• Statement: NGOs urge governments to call off 'new round' proposal Sign on here
• Statement: Joint NGO statement on the review of Art.27.3b of the TRIPS agreement [version francais] Sign on here

Biotechnology/Access

• Updated and clarified worldwide initiatives against GMOs
• India: Activists for rooting out GM crops
• Protecting the traditional knowledge of the poor nations
• An essay on the nature of life and the problem of genetic engineering
• TWN Information Service on Biosafety

Other news

• new frontiers vol.7 no.3 [MS-Word doc]
• Environment, health activists urge release of dioxin report
• Tobacco habit targets women
• Radical solutions needed for antibiotic resistance
• Activists declare victory over the World Bank
• Assembly adopts weakened resolutions on AIDS, essential drugs
• Greens target ExxonMobil in fight against emissions
• NGOs zero in on non-transparent WHO/corporate links
• Clearinghouse for Reviewing Ecotourism No.6
• Clearinghouse for Reviewing Ecotourism No.7
• Clearinghouse for Reviewing Ecotourism No.8