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BRICS: India proposes deliverables on TRIPS waiver, e-comm consumer protection, traditional knowledge SECTIONS Share Synopsis The BRICS grouping includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. India holds the presidency of BRICS for 2021. The grouping is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Agencies The Action plan based on the document “Strategy for BRICS Economic Partnership 2025” adopted during Russian Presidency in 2020 is another deliverable proposed. India has proposed deliverables on issues including a waiver proposal at World Trade Organization (WTO) for uninterrupt...

The BRICS Contact Group on Economic and Trade Issues (CGETI) leads held their first meeting under India's Chairship from 9-11 March 2021. The theme of BRICS this year is -"BRICS@15: Intra BRICS Cooperation for Continuity, Consolidation, and Consensus". India, under its Chairship in 2021, presented the calendar of events for BRICS CGETI 2021, which included the priority areas for deliverables, schedule and scope of the MSME roundtable conference workshop on Services Statistics, and the BRICS Trade Fair. This was followed by a series of presentations, scheduled in separate sessions, made by the...

March 9, 2021 Leila Salazar-López and Angela Martínez "The forest is our mother. The forest is our life and our strength. Women protect the healthy soil and fresh air to protect our children and all life. Now is the time to hear the voices of women to protect the Amazon." Cristina Gualinga, Kichwa grandmother from Sarayaku Across the Amazon Basin, Indigenous women are uniting and organizing in defense of life, rights, and territories while confronting increasing threats. Amazonian women defenders are on the front lines of defense and response to both the climate and COVID-19 emergencies. Th...

Share: March 01, 2021 We, the African Union (AU) Member States, the African Union Commission (AUC), the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD), the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), as well as distinguished invitees, RECALLING previous AU Assembly of Heads of State and Government declarations and decisions on home-grown school feeding that recognise its contributions to improving access to education and learning outcome...

The first year of the ‘Decade of Action,’ a call by world leaders to accelerate efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, coincided with the outbreak of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. With more than 2.5 million people succumbing to the virus so far, and possibly a lasting devastating socioeconomic impact, it has become even more imperative that the 2030 Agenda is prioritised by nations worldwide. The SDGs, a broader and more transformative version of the Millennium Development Goal (MDGs), were adopted in 2015 to address the issues plaguing the three dimensions o...