ISDS Case Map
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Walker's text of 22 November 2021 on the WTO response to the pandemic
There is evidence of a potential conflict between the CPTPP and the UK’s current system of market authorisation of generic and biosimilar drugs.
In pursuit of growth in Africa, British American Tobacco and others use intimidatory tactics to attempt to suppress health warnings and regulation, including accusing governments of breaching trade agreements.
Transnational companies today rely more than ever on IPR to structure their global value chains, writes Peter Rossman
Given the potential for wider use of the ISDS mechanism, strategies to protect public health policy space in the context of both international trade and investment treaty and dispute settlement contexts remain important.
This paper examines civil society and health actors’ views of the conditions that successfully contributed to the removal of these measures in RCEP, with a focus on intellectual property and access to medicines.
Efforts to combat child obesity have fallen behind the pack as international free-trade agreements threaten to put a “chill” on junk food regulations, experts say.
Heesob Nam, a patent attorney who dedicated his life to preventing the monopoly of 'intellectual property' by a few, passed away on May 10th.
