Category: International

CERC participated in the Global Forum on Product Safety Innovation in Korea, alongside BIS. The forum brought together 10 countries to discuss how National Standards Bodies and Consumer Organizations can collaborate to ensure safer products for consumers. Key discussions focused on online/e-commerce product risks, counterfeit goods, low traceability, and strengthening consumer capacity—especially in developing nations—through… Continue reading CERC participated in the Global Forum on Product Safety Innovation in Korea, alongside BIS.

The EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems presents new evidence-based insights on nutrition and human health, within safe and just planetary boundaries. The Commission lays the foundations for food systems, presenting global, regional, local, and individual means to achieve that while creating and retaining a just social foundation that protects human health… Continue reading As a panellist at the Stockholm Food Forum, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2025

The most important global platform to explore how International Standards can address the world’s evolving challenges. It’s a unique space to reflect on emerging trends, exchange ideas, and strengthen the role of standards. The theme “United for impact” calls us to harness our collective strength in a world that needs bold, lasting change. RSB, the… Continue reading The ISO Annual Meeting at Kigali, Rwanda, Africa

From 7 July to 11 July 2025, we joined the 9th United Nations Conference on Competition and Consumer Protection in Geneva, bringing a delegation of our Members to the discussions. We shared an important message amidst times of global change and rising costs for consumers: consumer policy and the advocates behind it are essential for… Continue reading Highlights from UNCTAD – 9th United Nations Conference on Competition and Consumer Protection

The discussions focused on ensuring active involvement of consumer organizations in the development of International Standards to put forth the country’s viewpoints effectively, keeping in view its trade interests to result in the formulation of an International Standard with which the country’s (eg, Indian Standards) could be harmonized and adopted under a dual numbering scheme.… Continue reading 2024 Autumn Conference hosted by the Korean Society for Standards Certification and Safety, at JEJU Islands, Nov 2024

Consumers increasingly buy goods and services in a complex digital and global marketplace, where unsafe products are readily available for sale, and information about their safety when used, reused, remanufactured, refurbished, made from recycled content, or disposed of is not equally available to consumers. The incorporation of digital or other new technologies in consumer products… Continue reading Global Product Safety Innovation Forum, Seoul, South Korea, November 2024

CERC was part of the delegation of Consumers International, which represented consumers at the first-ever OECD Consumer Policy Ministerial Meeting in Paris in October 2024, titled Consumers at the centre of the digital and green transitions.’ 37 ministers and heads of consumer agencies from 55 countries and 12 international organisations, and key stakeholders attended the… Continue reading CERC’s inputs incorporated at the Ministerial Declaration at OECD Ministerial Meeting at Paris, October’2024

The Public Forum at the World Trade Organization, Geneva, 2024, the theme of which was entitled ‘Re-globalization: Better Trade for a Better World’, is the WTO’s largest outreach event, providing a unique platform for stakeholders from around the world to discuss the latest developments in global trade and to propose ways of enhancing the multilateral… Continue reading CERC’s voice at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Public Forum conference at Geneva, Switzerland

CERC now represents consumer causes in India and the Southeast Asia region, with the CEO of CERC serving on the Council and the Board of Trustees at CI, the world’s federation of over 200 consumer organisations in 110 countries, working together to influence both local and international policies affecting consumers. It also conducts several campaigns… Continue reading CERC elected to represent India and Southeast Asia on the Consumers International Board of Trustees & Council