Spotlight: Africa and the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for ActionRegional Round-up on progress in implementing the Beijing Platform of Action in light of the upcoming 25th Anniversary of the platform. (more...)
Intersección entre Competencia y Patentes: Hacia un Ejercicio Pro- Competitivo de los Derechos de Patente en el Sector FarmacéuticoPor María Juliana Rodríguez Gómez (more...)
Flirting with the Private Sector: The GCF Private Sector Facility — achievements, challenges and constraints in engaging the private sectorBy Rajesh Eralil, Mariama Williams and Dianyi LiThe Green Climate Fund (GCF) is committed to (more...)
Contribution of the South Centre to the Report of the Secretary-General on the Implementation of UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/74/7 dated 12 November 2019 on the “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against (more...)
Antimicrobial Resistance: Examining the Environment as Part of the One Health ApproachBy Mirza Alas
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a serious issue that is threatening the medical and agricultural advances of today. The connections (more...)
India and recent updates on the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework’s Two-Pillar ApproachBy Subhash Jangala
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)/Group of Twenty (G20) Inclusive Framework in its January 2020 Statement has affirmed the (more...)
Political Declaration on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women
Ministers and representatives of governments of the Member States of the United Nations met at a special one-day session of the 64th meeting of the Commission on the (more...)
The ISDS Reform Process: The missing development agendaBy Nicolás M. Perrone
The foreign direct investment (FDI) governance agenda is centred on the reform of international investment agreements (IIAs) and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). The proliferation of IIAs (more...)
The Africa Energy Transition Program (AFRETRAP)By Rajesh Eralil and Youba Sokona
In a more and more climate change threatened world, Africa’s energy vision should be premised on moving from an energy landscape based on underdeveloped and carbon intense pathways to a modern, (more...)
Submission by the South Centre to the Draft Issues Paper on Intellectual Property Policy and Artificial Intelligence (WIPO/IP/AI/2/GE(20/1)
The South Centre welcomes the opportunity to submit to the WIPO Secretariat input on the draft issues paper on intellectual property policy (more...)
Comments by the South Centre on the CESCR Draft General Comment on science and economic, social and cultural rights Art. 15: 15.1.b, 15.2, 15.3 and 15.4
The South Centre welcomes the opportunity to submit its comments on the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Right (more...)
Appeal in ISDS: Appealing for the Host State?By Grace L. Estrada
Reforms to Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) are being discussed in the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group III. One possible reform is the development (more...)