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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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. […] As concerns grow over the environmental and human and animal health effects of genetic engineering, governments in some countries are taking action to protect their people and territory. […] An international alliance of NOGs launched a campaign to urge the WHO to reject a proposal that would permit the genetic engineering of smallpox. […] A briefing paper on the campaign by the Sunshine Project and Third World Network to stop the genetic modification of smallpox virus. […] The Independent Science Panel took the FAO to task for the latter’s position on genetic engineering. […] |
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