Jagdeo: Let Us Be the Model
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009President Jagdeo Addresses the CSD High-Level Segment – photo courtesy Earth Negotiations Bulletin The High-Level Segment of the 17th Session of United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-17) opened today with a series of speeches in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) hall. Despite its moniker, most of those speaking at the High-Level Segment only had […]
Consumer Protection in LAC II-A – The Intergovernmental Actors
Friday, April 13th, 2007To make up for missing World Consumer Rights Day (March 15), I promised to give you a five-part overview of consumer protection in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In Part I, I looked at how consumer agencies and consumer NGOs in the region celebrated the Day. Today I’ll provide an overview of and guide […]
MERCOSUR Targets Advertising
Monday, February 5th, 2007From its early days, the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR/MERCOSUL) sought to give the regional pact a consumer protection dimension and one of the first consumer topics it tried to tackle was advertising. A Resolution (binding upon member states) adopted by the principal decision-taking body, the Common Market Group (Grupo Mercado Común – GMC), […]