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Members of the European Parliament have backed a joint proposal by India and South Africa for waiver on intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccine patents.
25 January 2021 - Wits University South Africa has the legal tools to challenge the vaccine nationalism of rich countries. International and national legal frameworks could enable the government to ensure generic Covid-19 vaccines are manufactured locally and in other developing countries, particularly in Africa. The latter point is important as South Africa, through its chairing of the African Union (AU) and its interventions at the United Nations, has emphasised a solidarity-based approach to the use of vaccines to combat Covid-19. This approach has been sought by UN Secretary-General Ant...
04 November 2015 - Global trade has real impacts on the lives, livelihoods and liberties of people and all else on Earth. Yet, only a handful of people engage in the making of trade rules, leaving the space open for trade negotiators, foreign diplomats and big businesses to set the terms. The rules for global trade are currently made under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and its agreements. The WTO succeeds the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT 1948-1994), which was meant to bring peace and prosperity to the world post the Second World War. We have seen two decades of the WTO (1...
We need a 2nd declaration on WTO's TRIPs, public health: CUTS International SECTIONS Last Updated: Dec 19, 2020, 06:18 PM IST Share Synopsis The WTO''s (World Trade Organisation) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights or TRIPS Agreement came into effect in January 1995. It is a multilateral agreement on intellectual property rights such as copyright, industrial designs, patents and protection of undisclosed information or trade secrets. NEW DELHI: The global civil society should take lead in pressing for a second version of the Doha Declaration on WTO''s ag...
Global Judicial Integrity Network Advisory Board holds meeting 14 Dec 2020 - 7:31 Chief Justice of the Supreme Judiciary Council of Qatar H E Dr. Hassan bin Lahdan Al Hassan Al Mohannadi chairs a meeting of Advisory Board of the Global Judicial Integrity Network 2020. QNA Doha: The Advisory Board of the Global Judicial Integrity Network 2020 held its second meeting virtually, headed by Chief Justice of the Supreme Judiciary Council (SJC) of Qatar and President of the Court of Cassation, H E Dr. Hassan bin Lahdan Al Hassan Al Mohannadi. Al Mohannadi who is the chairperson of the second ...