"INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY"

The Directors-General of UNESCO and WHO and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, issued a joint appeal reaffirming the fundamental right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications, and advocating for open, inclusive and collaborative science. UNIFEED

Thirty countries and multiple international partners and institutions have signed up to support the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) an initiative aimed at making vaccines, tests, treatments and other health technologies to fight COVID-19 accessible to all. WHO

World Health Organization (WHO) officials on Friday discussed reports from Europe and North America of children developing a multisystem inflammatory condition with some features similar to Kawasaki’s disease and toxic shock syndrome that may be related to COVID-19. WHO

General Assembly adopts inclusive global health resolution, as several delegates reject language on protecting reproductive rights and promoting access to medicine, at 44th plenary.

General Assembly adopts 5 resolutions, including texts on revitalizing its own work, designating 2021 ‘International Year of Peace and Trust’ at 106th plenary meeting.

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Asia’s growth is forecast to be 5.4 percent in 2019 and 2020, accounting for more than 60 percent of global growth, according to the International Monetary Fund. IMF

The upsurge in patent applications on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the last five years suggests that it could soon revolutionize all areas of daily life and industries beyond the tech world, a UN report suggested on Thursday. UNTV CH

Worldwide demand for intellectual property (IP) tools reached record heights in 2017, with China driving this growth, according to the World Intellectual Property Indicators report that was launched in Geneva on Monday. UNTV CH

Upon being sworn in as the 73rd President of the General Assembly, María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés the first woman from Latin America to hold the position, vowed to “strengthen multilateralism” and said, “the only way to solve the global problems is through a collective, cooperative approach.” UNIFEED