News Archive
- REPORT SAYS WAVE OF ARBITRATION CASES IMPACTED INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT RULEMAKING
- Released: 10 Jan 2008
Trend in new agreements is towards more precise definitions, more transparency in effort to avoid disputes
- Lamy welcomes revised agriculture and NAMA negotiating texts
- Released: 8 Feb 2008
Director-General Pascal Lamy welcomed the release of revised negotiating texts in agriculture and industrial goods trade issued on 8 February by Agriculture Negotiating Group Chairman Crawford Falconer and Non-Agricultural Market Access Chair Don Stephenson.
- Release of World Economic Situation and Prospects
- Released: 11 Feb 2008
World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) is a joint product of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the five United Nations regional commissions.
- DRAFT BLUEPRINTS ISSUED FOR FINAL DEAL ON AGRICULTURAL AND NON-AGRICULTURAL TRADE
- Released: 8 Feb 2008
Two papers including what could become the formulas for cutting tariffs and trade-distorting agricultural subsidies in a final deal were issued on 8 February 2008.
- 2008 Aid-for-Trade Roadmap
- Released: 25 Feb 2008
- The Aid for Trade Roadmap 2008 proposed by the WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy got ‘green light’ from the members on 25 February 2008 at a session of the Committee on Trade and Development.
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Launches Campaign to End Violence against Women
- Released: 25 Feb 2008
- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a multi-year campaign to intensify action to end violence against women and girls.
- CSW 2008
- Released: 15 Feb 2008
- The 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is scheduled for 25 February – 7 March 2008.
