A Right to Research in Africa?A Week of Events on Copyright and Access to Knowledge in South Africa
The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property of the American University Washington College of Law (PIJIP) is co-organizing a week of (more...)
South Centre - African Union Workshop on WIPO Issues13-14 December 2022 at the Montreux Room - Centre de Conférences de Varembé (CCV), Geneva
In light of the Recommendations of the AU/AG workshop of December 2019 and the latest developments at SCCR/42, the African (more...)
COMMENTS ON PILLAR ONE – AMOUNT A: DRAFT MULTILATERAL CONVENTION PROVISIONS ON DIGITAL SERVICES TAXES AND OTHER RELEVANT SIMILAR MEASURESThe BEPS Monitoring Group, 25 January 2023
Directives pour l’examen des demandes de brevet relatives aux produits pharmaceutiquesPar Carlos M Correa
Ce document fait suite à un document antérieur, Directives applicables à l’examen des brevets pharmaceutiques: examen des brevets pharmaceutiques du (more...)
Graduating from the LDC Group: Challenges Facing Bangladeshby Mustafizur Rahman
A significant number of LDCs will be graduating in the near term future. On graduation these countries will face formidable challenges as they will lose the benefits accruing from (more...)
South Centre Comments on Pillar One – Amount B
The South Centre provided its comments to the OECD Secretariat on Pillar One – Amount B. Amount B is part of the components of (more...)
South Centre Comments on the ‘Amount A Draft Multilateral Convention Provisions on Digital Services Taxes and Other Relevant Similar Measures’
The South Centre provided its comments to the OECD Inclusive Framework’s Task Force on Digital Economy (TFDE) on (more...)
Climate Finance Withholding Mechanism: Exploring a potential solution for climate finance needs of the developing countriesBy Radhakishan Rawal
The developed countries’ commitment to provide climate finance to the developing countries has remained unfulfilled. The (more...)
South Centre Statement on the extension of the TRIPS waiver for diagnostics and therapeutics for COVID-19
Developing countries should consider options that can be implemented now to deal with IP barriers to expand production and access to COVID-19 therapeutics and diagnostics, (more...)
Taxing Big Tech: Policy Options for Developing CountriesBy Abdul Muheet Chowdhary and Sébastien Babou Diasso
Even as the COVID-19 crisis wreaked havoc on the global economy, it gave rise to a small set of winners, namely Big Tech. The increasing prevalence of remote (more...)
WHO, WIPO & WTO Trilateral Symposium 2022 Opening Statementby Viviana Munoz Tellez
The world was unprepared prior to the Covid-19 crisis and remains so for new ones. The Covid-19 response was faulty. Covid-19 recovery has been slow and painful, in particular (more...)
South Centre StatementWHO proposed instrument on pandemics: the Conceptual Zero Draft needs substantial improvement to address global public health needs
We welcome the discussions in the WHO on a new instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness, response (more...)
