#113 The G|O Briefing, October 13, 2022
GESDA: SCIENCE AT THE MULTILATERAL TABLE | HAITI 'S TOTAL COLLAPSE | LATEST ADDITION TO UN GVA CAMPUS STILL PLAGUED BY PROBLEMS | MUSICAL CHAIRS
FOOD SECURITY
Haiti's near collapse exposes the fragility and collective failure of the humanitarian response
“It is tragic that the UN has engaged in Haiti so often but is still trying to sort out many of the same problems with law and order that it first addressed in the 1990s”
#105 The G|O Briefing, July 14, 2022
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Will the WTO be able to protect the poorest from a looming global food crisis?
The agricultural debate will take center stage at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) June Ministerial conference (MC12), and its dynamics will be shaped, in form but above all in substance, by the war in Ukraine.
Since the WTO operates by consensus, few trade experts and WTO watchers here expect
#97 The G|O Briefing, May 12, 2022
New accusations about Geneva's bogus 'universities' - Can the WTO help avert a catastrophic global food crisis?
The war in Ukraine contaminates the work at the WTO
The war in Ukraine continues to disrupt the work of an already deadlocked World Trade Organisation (WTO). Across different committees, negotiations, and working groups, the mutual accusations between Kiev and Moscow are overshadowing all other issues.
A case in point was the March 24–25 meeting of the Committee on
#94 The G|O Briefing, April 21, 2022
China ratifies conventions against forced labor – The war continues to disrupt the WTO’s deliberations