On June 8-9, 2021, the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) TRIPS Council will hold their first meeting in the wake of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announcing “the Biden-Harris Administration’s ...

As we previously reported, some members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), including India and South Africa, had called for a waiver of intellectual property enforcement on COVID-19 ...

On November 26, as news of the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 stoked alarm around the world, the White House released a statement calling on countries to support an intellectual property waiver for ...

Editor’s Note: Joseph Stiglitz is a professor at Columbia University and a Nobel laureate in economics. Lori Wallach is director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. The opinions expressed in this ...

“On the one hand, the administration has prioritized domestic investment in cutting-edge technologies and innovative manufacturing….. On the other hand, expanding the TRIPS waiver would undermine ...

Nearly two years ago, in October 2020, India and South Africa proposed that the World Trade Organization (WTO) suspend key intellectual property rules so that poor countries could access cheaper, ...

Civil society and industry representatives met in Geneva yesterday, September 28 to discuss a potential expansion of the TRIPS waiver The World Trade Organization is “unhelpful and increasingly ...

Department Chair/Associate Professor of Political Science, King's University College, Western University Erin Hannah receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ...

For the past year, member nations of the World Trade Organization have been deadlocked over a proposal made by India and South Africa to temporarily suspend intellectual property rights to boost ...

27 August 2020. CDP Policy Review No. 10 By Daniel Gay and Kevin Gallagher. Bangladesh is one of the most successful least developed countries (LDCs). The country has made such strides that in 2021 ...