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Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform (ADP), Bonn (29 Apr - 03 May 2013) (Briefing Papers) Global Academics’ Expert Letter on LDCs’ TRIPS Extension Request (27 April 2013) Biopiracy Continues - A compilation of some recent cases by Edward Hammond (Apr 2013)

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	Issue No. 271/272 (Mar/Apr 2013) COVER STORY: Notes on violence against women in the neoliberal age In the neoliberal era, while violence structures the lives of the poor across the world, the injustice of these lives is profoundly gendered By V Geetha

TWN Info Service on Climate Change:

• Ecuador proposal for TRIPS review (11 Jun 13)
• A wake for carbon offsets - but will lessons be learned for climate finance? by Oscar Reyes (04 Jun 13)
• No solution yet as climate threshold crossed by Martin Khor (20 May 13)
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TWN Info Service on WTO and Trade Issues:

• Status of WTO negotiations by Kanaga Raja (19 Jun 13)
• South Centre Welcomes WTO Decision on LDCs and TRIPs (19 Jun 13)
• LDC TRIPS exemption approved with mixed reactions by Sangeeta Shashikant (15 Jun 13)
• WTO Approves an 8-year Extension of Transition Period for LDCs (12 Jun 13)
• Please Stop Bullying the World's Poorest Countries by Matthew Kavanagh (07 Jun 13)
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TWN Info Service on Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge:

• Will the European Union legalise biopiracy? (18 Jun 13)
• Denmark’s Novo Nordisk lays claim to antibacterial molecule from Amazonian bird by Edward Hammond (15 Jun 13)
• Material Transfer Agreement underlying the controversy over patent rights and the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome virus (28 May 13)
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TWN Info Service on Intellectual Property Issues:

• South Centre Welcomes WTO's Decision on LDCs and TRIPs (19 Jun 13)
• LDC TRIPS exemption approved with mixed reactions by Sangeeta Shashikant (15 Jun 13)
• WTO Approves an 8-year Extension of Transition Period for LDCs (12 Jun 13)
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TWN Info Service on Finance and Development:

• EU-US deal could unleash a "corporate litigation boom" by Kanaga Raja (14 Jun 13)
• World Bank seeks to eradicate poverty... by lowering the bar by Roberto Bissio (30 May 13)
• Systemic reforms, global economic partnership crucial, says South by Bhumika Muchhala (07 May 13)
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TWN Info Service on Health Issues:

• UK to call for G8 action against superbugs by Shila Kaur (13 Jun 13)
• WTO Approves an 8-year Extension of Transition Period for LDCs (12 Jun 13)
• Sovereignty and patents at the fore in debate over MERS virus by Edward Hammond (31 May 13)
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TWN Info Service on Sustainable Agriculture:

• GM a failing biotechnology in modern agro-ecosystems
  (19 Jun 13)
• SBSTA: Parties Agree to Focus on Adaptation in Agriculture Outcome
  by Doreen Stabinsky & Azeb Girmai (18 Jun 13)
• Developing country groups highlight international dimensions of sustainable agriculture and food security
  by Bhumika Muchhala (03 Jun 13)
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TWN Info Service on Free Trade Agreements:

• EU-US deal could unleash a "corporate litigation boom" by Kanaga Raja (11 Jun 13)
• Malaysia and the TPPA by Fauwaz Abdul Aziz (16 May 13)
• Malaysia and the USTR Report by Fauwaz Abdul Aziz (16 May 13)
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TWN Info Service on UN Sustainable Development:

• Eradicating Poverty ... By Lowering the Bar
  by Roberto Bissio (19 Jun 13)
• SDGS: G77 on some key components of a "people-centred development agenda"
  by Ranja Sengupta (18 Jun 13)
• OWG-SDG -- Social Protection and Sustainable Development
  (18 Jun 13)
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Last updated on 19 June 2013