On Friday, 19 April 2024, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) published these comments on the 16 April 2024 draft of the WHO Pandemic agreement. KEIcomment16April2024draftWHOpandemictreaty The 16 April 2024 text (A/INB/9R/3, Proposal for the WHO Pandemic Agreement) can be found here:… Continue Reading
On 15 April 2024, the World Trade Organization (WTO) published a document, IP/C/W/712, entitled, Review of the implementation of the TRIPS Agreement: Article 71.1; this date marks 30 years after the establishment of the WTO. Colombia’s proposal can be found… Continue Reading
On Monday, 15 April 2024, Ambassador Guilherme de Aguiar Patriota (Permanent Representative of Brazil to the World Trade Organization and other economic organizations based in Geneva) delivered the following opening statement (in Brazil’s national capacity) at the 45th session of… Continue Reading
On Tuesday, 2 April 2024, Politico published the onscreen text WHO pandemic treaty text of Wednesday, 27 March 2024; the time stamp of this 110 page text is 12:44 CET. Article 11 of the proposed agreement contains provisions on transfer… Continue Reading
INB 9 Written statement by Knowledge Ecology International 28 March 2024 Transparency The negotiations on a WHO pandemic agreement should be more transparent. The negotiating texts with attributed country positions should be public and the meetings should be webcast. These… Continue Reading
On Friday, 22 March 2024, Ambassador Mauricio Alberto Bustamante Garcia, Permanent Mission of Colombia to the World Trade Organization (WTO) delivered the following statement at the WTO General Council in relation to the submission by Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, and India… Continue Reading
On Monday, 18 March 2024, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered the following oral statement (in person) at the 9th meeting of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB). With respect to Article 11.2, the current references to “to… Continue Reading
Nearly 18 months of tortuous negotiations on the extension of the June 17, 2022 Ministerial Decision on the TRIPS Agreement to COVID-19 diagnostics and therapeutics, in February 2024, the TRIPS Council threw in the towel after consensus could not be… Continue Reading
On Friday, 8 March 2024, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered the following intervention at the resumed session of the seventh meeting of the Working Group on Amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005). 8 March 2024 The two negotiations are… Continue Reading
At the closing to the 13th WTO Ministerial in Abu Dhabi, the World Trade Organization adopted a decision to extend the moratorium on non-violation and situation complaints. The text of the decision (WT/MIN(24)/39) is reproduced here: The Ministerial Conference decides… Continue Reading