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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is the most important effort undertaken to lay down a plurilateral legal framework for the enforcement of intellectual property rights. With the view to learn more about the origins of this treaty, the process leading to its conclusion and its implications for law making in this field, The ACTA and the Plurilateral Enforcement Agenda: Genesis and Aftermath analyses in great depth both the context and the content of the agreements. In order to attain this objective, a large and diverse group of experts - renowned scholars, policy makers, civil...

In developing countries, access to affordable medicines for the treatment of diseases such as AIDS and malaria, remains a matter of life or death. In Africa, for instance, more than one million children die each year from malaria alone, a figure which could soon be far higher with the extension of patent rules for pharmaceuticals. Previously, access to essential medicines was made possible by the supply of much cheaper generies, manufactured largely by India; from this year, however, the availability of these drugs is threatened as new WTO rules take effect. Halting the spread of malaria and...

Explores the diversity of partnerships at the interface of intellectual property and sustainable development.