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• W586205399 abstract "Just a few years following the coming into force of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreements, the risks they posed to human health and food security became selfevident. This problem has been acknowledged by the WTO in the Doha Declaration, by other United Nations Organs and commentators. Joined at the hip the WTO and TRIPS system, as implemented, seems to have aggravated the severe and debilitating disease burden and food insecurity of many of its member developing countries that existed prior to TRIPS. Although the WTO and its Council on TRIPS have recognized the problem their response hardly matches the gravity of the circumstances confronted. The solutions relied on are mostly textual analysis and interpretative devices designed to exploit the so-called internal flexibilities embedded within TRIPS. Little attention has been paid to exploring the source of the problem which appears to be within the structure, the operating premises supporting the constitutive architecture of TRIPS and the linkage of the right to trade in all goods and services to the protection of foreign intellectual property rights. The risks to health and food security appear to have their nesting conditions and roots deep in some structural flaws of the WTO and TRIPS as a system. The marriage of two complex international systems demanded the prior investigation of two critical questions. First, whether under international law there is a fundamental right of states to trade. Second, whether an idea however formed  This paper was presented at the United Nations University Workshop Project, World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreements, the UN and Challenges of Human Security, November 17-18, 2009, Universidad de Concepcion (Santiago Office); this paper was delivered at the University of Ghana Passing through Accra: Legon International Scholar Series (LISS), Friday, February 18, 2011. © 2009 Kojo Yelpaala  Professor of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, LL.B(Hons) 1970 B.L. 1972 University of Ghana; M.B.A. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1977; M.L.I University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979; S.J.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1985. I am grateful to the McGeorge School of Law Summer Research Fund for the support of this study. I am also immensely grateful to Jack Schroeder for his continuing support of my research efforts. I am also grateful to the secretarial staff , particularly, Kristina Axtell the prompt and effective support. Special thanks to my colleagues at the conference who made helpful comments to the approach taken in this work. The author can be reached at kyelpaala@pacific.edu" @default.
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• W586205399 title "QUO VADIS WTO? THE THREAT OF TRIPS AND THE BIODIVERSITY CONVENTION TO HUMAN HEALTH AND FOOD SECURITY" @default.
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