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Runde: Trump Administration Wins Big with WIPO Election
March 16, 2020
According to Daniel Runde writing in The Hill, working with other countries and interested business and intellectual property ("IP") protection advocates, the Trump Administration played a leading role in securing the election of Singapore's Daren Tang as the new Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO"), preventing the election of a candidate from China, whose IP practices experts believe contravene international standards.
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UNESCO Appoints International Expert Group to Draft Global Recommendation on the Ethics of AI
March 11, 2020
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay has appointed 24 of the world’s leading experts on the social, economic and cultural challenges of artificial intelligence to draft internationally applicable recommendations on ethical issues raised by the development and use of AI.
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WHO Gives Advice on Handling Mental Health Toll from the Coronavirus
March 11, 2020
Acknowledging that the coronavirus is causing stress in the global population, the World Heath Organization (“WHO”) has published mental health tips that include specific advice for health-care workers, caretakers of children or older adults, and people in isolation.
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IMF Urges Policymakers to Introduce Measures to Counter Outbreak
March 11, 2020
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged policymakers across the globe to introduce targeted fiscal, monetary, and financial market measures aimed at helping businesses and households survive the coronavirus outbreak.
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Opinio Juris: Facebook Oversight Board Should Proceed with Caution (Part II)
March 06, 2020
Writing in Opinio Juris, two international law experts concern that Facebook's planned Oversight Board could become one of the world's most powerful human rights arbiters, with "the ability to impose sanctions and control the practical development of key elements of freedom of opinion and expression, privacy, and hate speech."
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