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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) SUNS article: Patents vs public health issue
won't go away
(6) SUNS article: WTO asked to ensure TRIPS
doesn't undermine public health
- WTO
Secretariat explains its TRIPS 'negotiating history'
An article in the SUNS on TRIPS and health care (2 May),
reporting on the concerns among developing countries over the posting
on the WTO's website of some of the documents of the Uruguay Round TRIPS
negotiations under the title 'Negotiating history of TRIPS', has brought
a communication from the WTO secretariat explaining how it posted the
documents. The explanations raise more questions than answers. A report
on this, the secretariat's letter and the original article are posted
here.
- Patents
and medicines: The WTO must act now!
- WTO,
global governance and new trade round
- No new
issues in WTO, say India and Malaysia
- Don't
expand trade system to new issues, advises Ricupero
- Restrictions
cost world's poor $2.5 billion each year
- Malaysian
finance minister opposes 'new issues'
- European
civil society denounces EC's WTO stance
- Members
raise a range of subjects for assessment at Doha
- Iran's
accession request brought on the Council agenda
- A poisoned
present for the poorest countries
- EC
preferences, LDCs and trade diversion
- Doha
process starts, stumbles over Plan A, B (or C)
- Separate
track for implementation doesn't mean side-track
- Ecuador
withdraws challenge to EU-US banana deal
- ACP
states press EU to reverse plan to cut sugar quota
- 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
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