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A Compromise Moratorium As vaccine rollout in the United States and other Western-developed countries ramps up, developing countries are mostly still waiting and likely will continue to be further back in the queue for shots. That disparity is fueling a bitter new front in a quarter-century long fight between developed and developing countries over the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) intellectual property rules. When the WTO was created, it came with the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) Agreement, a set of rules that aimed to help IP-intensive firms like pharmaceutical co...

Waiving intellectual property rights could help poor countries get vaccines By The Washington Post Miriam Berger As the coronavirus pandemic rages, World Trade Organization representatives have periodically gathered around a virtual table and clashed over how to more equitably increase global access to vaccines. On one side are the United States and other mainly wealthy Western democracies, where the major pharmaceutical companies developing key vaccines and related medical technologies are based. They want to maintain the status quo, in which the trade secrets of their vaccines - i.e. intell...

During the AIDS epidemic, countries in the World Trade Organization agreed to put aside differences and issue waivers to increase access to life-saving antivirals. But many people died before they did.

(MENAFN - Gulf Times) Qatar affirmed that the high-level political dialogue between the Iraqi and Qatari judiciaries is one of the fruits of the Global Programme for the Implementation of the Doha Declaration to consolidate the rule of law and enhance the effectiveness of criminal justice systems. The political dialogue between the two countries was held in Vienna on Thursday under the supervision of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in the presence of HE President of the Supreme Judiciary Council of Qatar Dr Hassan bin Lahdan al-Hassan al-Mohannadi and President of the J...

 19 Feb 2021 - 11:50 QNA Qatar affirmed that the high-level political dialogue between the Iraqi and Qatari judiciaries is one of the fruits of the Global Program for the Implementation of the Doha Declaration to consolidate the rule of law and enhance the effectiveness of criminal justice systems. The political dialogue between the two countries was held in Vienna yesterday under the supervision of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in the presence of President of the Supreme Judiciary Council of the State of Qatar H E Dr. Hassan bin Lahdan Al Hassan Al Mohannadi and Pre...