Every time the clarions of war are heard about fighting human trafficking, policy efforts tend to focus on addressing the alleged naivety of those who are trafficked and prosecuting the pimps or middlemen who recruit people for work. As the prevailing logic goes, migrants should know better and (...)
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, on 29 July, opened the week-long “Geneva Week” for WTO members and observers who do not have permanent missions in Geneva. He briefed participants on recent encouraging WTO developments, in particular the agreement on the elimination of tariffs for 201 information (...)
The chairman of the negotiating group on rules, Ambassador Wayne McCook (Jamaica), told the group on 29 July that WTO members have made little progress in finding consensus on what outcome they hope to achieve for the rules talks when members gather for the organization’s 10th Ministerial (...)
Chinese Taipei and Thailand confirmed on 28 July that they have agreed to eliminate customs tariffs on more than 200 widely-traded information technology products.
"21 million of the most vulnerable workers have been tricked and trapped into forced labour. We cannot stop until we get every single one of them out of forced labour and into Decent Work" said ILO director General Guy Ryder in a joint message by the Inter-agency Coordination Group (...)
WTO members formally adopted Kazakhstan’s WTO terms of entry at the General Council meeting on 27 July 2015, in the presence of Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Kazakhstan will have until 31 October 2015 to ratify the deal to formally become a WTO member 30 days after it notifies the (...)
At a meeting of the WTO’s General Council today (28 July), Director-General Roberto Azevêdo said it remains very unlikely that a clearly defined work programme on the remaining Doha issues could be agreed by the mandated deadline of 31 July. However, he said that this did not in any way mean that (...)