“Democratic Deficit” of Public Deliberation over Novel Organism Releases

This article reviews the need for and the challenges to opening up regulatory processes for gene edited and gene drive organisms to outside experts, stakeholders, and publics. […]

Pocket Guide to Support Effective Access to Information and Public Participation Regarding LMOs/GMOs

This pocket guide seeks to help Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and Aarhus Convention and other stakeholders strengthen their capacities for effective access to information and public participation in decision-making processes regarding LMOs/GMOs. […]

Public Awareness, Access to Information and Public Participation regarding LMOs/GMOs

Report of the third Joint Round Table on Public Awareness, Access to Information and Public Participation regarding Living Modified Organisms/Genetically Modified Organisms. […]

Joint-checklist and Summary of Tools and Resources on Access to Information, Public Awareness, Education and Public Participation

The secretariats of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Aarhus Convention have jointly developed two documents relevant to access to information, public awareness, education and public participation in the context of GMOs. […]

The Critical Role of Civil Society in Biosafety

This TWN article for Biosafety Protocol News outlines the critical role that civil society has played and continues to play in global and national biosafety discussions, as well as the challenges that remain. […]

Amendment to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

The amendment to the Aarhus Convention concerning public participation in decision-making on genetically modified organisms was adopted at the second meeting of the Parties to the Convention in September 2005. […]

Public Participation and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

This study looks at public participation in the development of National Biosafety Frameworks. […]

Participación Pública en la Implementación del Protocolo de Bioseguridad

A discussion on public participation in the context of the Biosafety Protocol. […]

Public Participation in the Implementation of the Biosafety Protocol

A discussion on public participation in the context of the Biosafety Protocol. […]

Public participation in national biotechnology policy and biosafety regulation

This paper considers the challenges entailed in applying the principles and methods of public participation to national and international policy processes. […]