The centenary of the International Labor Organization (ILO) provides an opportunity to take stock of the organization's many achievements. But the centenary also calls for a clear-eyed assessment of the profound challenges that the ILO currently faces – including the growth of the informal and...

Despite multilateral commitments and political statements of solidarity and cooperation to guarantee the availability and access to COVID-19 vaccines (and other relevant technologies for control and treatment), the scenario after the beginning of vaccination is marked by the deepening of vaccine...

Globalisation is an issue that has been high on the research agenda for several years, spawning a vast and at times unwieldy literature. A concept often ill-defined, it has generated a plethora of unresolved and fiercely contested questions, the nature of which depends on which side of the...

The article deals with the analysis of requirements of the International Organization for Standardization, other intergovernmental organizations and Canada's national requirements for standardization as a means of confirming the quality and innovation of products. The analysis revealed the...

As a partnership amongst governments, civil society, the private sector and communities, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the “Global Fund”) represents an innovation in the mechanisms for international health financing. This article examines the innovative features of...