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Posting date: August 09, 2010
Access and Benefit-sharing Protocol Negotiations Resume in September
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.
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Posting date: July 14, 2010
Benefit Sharing Protocol Text Negotiations Finally Start
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.
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Posting date: May 05, 2010
Update on Variola (Smallpox) Virus Destruction (May 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).
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Posting date: January 29, 2008
CBD group makes some progress on access-benefit talks
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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Posting date: January 22, 2007
Destruction of Smallpox Virus Stocks, An Update (January 2007)
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.
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Posting date: March 28, 2006
How the CBD upheld moratorium on 'Terminator Technology'
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.
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Posting date: March 24, 2006
New Report Points to Widespread Biopiracy in Africa
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.
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Posting date: March 24, 2006
Is There Space for Indigenous Peoples in the Negotiations on Access and Benefit-Sharing?
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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Posting date: March 24, 2006
CBD's Terminator Technology moratorium reaffirmed, but weakened
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.
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Posting date: March 24, 2006
Renewed Calls to Ban 'Terminator Technology'
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'.
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