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. […]
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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. […] Although the CBD Working Group meeting in Granada reaffirmed the UN moratorium on the controversial Terminator Technology, other new recommendations adopted at the meeting may serve to open the door to its later approval. […] As governments gathered for the UN CBD Working Group meeting in Granada in Jan 2006, indigenous peoples, farmers’ groups and NGOs renewed their calls for an international ban on ‘Terminator Technology’. […] The latest round of UN talks held in Granada, Jan 2006 on an international agreement on access and benefit-sharing reflected the all-too-familiar tensions and conflicts between the developed and developing countries. […] A UN meeting held in Jan 2006 was an opportune occasion to revisit the difficult issues that states, indigenuous and local communities need to grapple with as they come to grips with the interplay of biodiversity and IPRs. […] A proposal by a WHO advisory committee to preserve stocks of the smallpox virus in their laboratories for further research, including genetic engineering, was not approved by the World Health Assembly. […] |
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