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- Meeting prep: WIPO IGC 22
- This week in review … Like-minded countries meet in Bali to prepare for WIPO IGC
- This week in review … SciDev.Net article on community protocols and FPIC
- This week in review … Greenpeace starts global consultation on the need for universal REDD+ safeguards
- Resource: State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2012
Posted: 04 Jul 2012 05:53 AM PDT Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore of the World Intellectual Property Organization, 22nd session This session of the IGC will focus on traditional cultural expressions and will also work on a recommendation to the WIPO General Assembly regarding future work, including the potential convening of a diplomatic conference. The panel of indigenous and local communities will focus on "Intellectual Property, Traditional Cultural Expressions and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Perspectives of Indigenous Peoples." Side events will address, among other issues, intellectual property and the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, and TK licenses. Visit the meeting's website, including links to background documents … Follow the session via live webcast … |
This week in review … Like-minded countries meet in Bali to prepare for WIPO IGC Posted: 04 Jul 2012 05:53 AM PDT Sixteen countries meet to protect intangible property BALI, INDONESIA: Sixteen like-minded countries held a meeting from 27-29 June 2012, in Bali, to discuss strategies in preparation for WIPO negotiations on an instrument/instruments to protect genetic resources, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, and in calling for a diplomatic conference. Attending the meeting were representatives from Algeria, Brunei Darussalam, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malaysia, Namibia, Pakistan, Peru, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as from WIPO and the South Center. Read the article … |
This week in review … SciDev.Net article on community protocols and FPIC Posted: 04 Jul 2012 05:51 AM PDT Making the Nagoya Protocol work at the community level LONDON, UK: In this article, IIED's Krystyna Swiderska argues that community protocols and free, prior informed consent can be powerful tools for putting the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit-sharing into practice – linking economic, social and ecological objectives, while supporting marginalized communities as they defend their rights to land and resources. Read the article … |
This week in review … Greenpeace starts global consultation on the need for universal REDD+ safeguards Posted: 04 Jul 2012 05:50 AM PDT Forests and People First: the need for universal REDD+ safeguards AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS: Greenpeace has launched a consultation document on REDD safeguards. Called "Forests & People First", the initiative proposes a set of minimum safeguard standards for REDD and other forest and climate programmes. It is noted that a number of REDD+ countries have begun to develop their own national safeguard standards, a development that – if carried out in a participatory, transparent manner and in compliance with international obligations – is to be strongly encouraged. However, while taking into account national circumstances, common ground is needed at international level in order to ensure consistency if we want to reduce and halt deforestation globally. A robust international framework can help forest countries in developing their own national systems and generate confidence from the international community and investors. The document includes a matrix comparing the various multilateral safeguard policies on REDD. Comments are requested by 2 September 2012, to: redd.safeguards@greenpeace.org. Read the release … Read a Redd-Monitor article on the issue … |
Resource: State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2012 Posted: 04 Jul 2012 05:49 AM PDT State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2012 This publication documents hundreds of case studies about marginalized groups who have been adversely affected by exploitation of the resources found on or under their ancestral lands. It also considers land rights around the world and examines the growing body of legal standards and jurisprudence in the area of indigenous peoples' rights. Other issues addressed include: women's land rights; corporate responsibility; case studies of resistance; overviews of the human rights situations of minorities and indigenous peoples in all major world regions; and People under Threat 2012, a statistical analysis and ranking of countries. The report calls for a new model of resource development "with identity", including practices which respect the rights of indigenous and minority communities. Download the report [pdf] … Read the MRG press release … |
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