Developed countries continue to reject a list of mandatory checkpoints to detect potential biopiracy by users of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge within their jurisdiction. […]
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Parties to the CBD started meeting in Japan on 13 Oct and hope to finalise and adopt the Access and Benefit Sharing Protocol by end of the conference. […] The Convention on Biological Diversity will discuss the issue of biopiracy and equitable benefit sharing when it resumes for another meeting on 18-21 September in Montreal. […] Governments that are Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity finally started to negotiate the text of a draft protocol on access and benefit sharing on 10 July 2010. […] This TWN paper updates on ongoing variola virus research projects and the WHO Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research. It was prepared for the 63rd World Health Assembly (17-21 May 2010). […] A meeting of a working group under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity made progress to develop an international regime for the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources. […] This short briefing prepared for the WHO Executive Board meeting provides an update on developments on the issue of destruction of smallpox virus stocks since the 59th World Health Assembly in May 2006. […] After a week of intense negotiations, the UN CBD announced that the de facto moratorium on field and commercial releases of ‘Terminator Technology’ be re-affirmed. […] A new report exposing rampant biopiracy in Africa was released at the UN CBD meeting in Granada in Jan 2006. Chee Yoke Heong highlights some of the findings of this report which made a strong impact on the participants. […] There is a strong need to accord to indigenous peoples full and effective participation within the CBD process. What is needed, argues Jennifer Tauli Corpuz, is the opening up of more dialogue between indigenous peoples and the countries of the South. […] |
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