This article examines the June 2010 report of the International Labour Organisation Governing Body’s Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA) made in response to a complaint by the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of...

Director-General Margaret Chan recently called the WHO overextended and unable to respond with speed and agility to today’s global health challenges. Given the importance of global health cooperation, few would dispute that a stronger, more effective WHO would benefit all. In this commentary,...

TRIPs Agreement introduced intellectual property rights (IPRs) into the multilateral trading system for the first time during the Uruguay Round of world trade negotiations. However, TRIPs is at crossroad, pushed by one force from developed countries calling for higher standard of IPRs and the...

This article examines the involvement of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) with a number of selected international organisations and the rules on NGO accreditation currently applied by these international organisations. It is submitted that appropriate legal arrangements for accreditation of...

The quest for statehood — as perhaps no other notion of this or similar kind — has been a source of the most extreme human events and experiences: ranging from consent to conflict, destruction to dignity, hope to hell, and more. From its birth, typically traced to the Treaty of Westphalia...

The text is devoted to the issues of international law and the role of investment to international organizations such as the WTO, the OECD and the IMF. Author discusses the issues remedies available to investors and methods of investment dispute resolution, e.g. claims for damages that can be...