Convention on Biological Diversity: www.biodiv.org/convention/articles.asp
World Bank Web site on indigenous knowledge: www.worldbank.org/afr/ik/what.htm
The 1991 Act of the Union pour la Protection des
Variétés Végétales
(UPOV):
www.upov.int/en/publications/conventions/1991/content.htm
ITPGRFA or International Seed Treaty: www.fao.org/AG/CGRFA/ITPGR.htm
The African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and
Natural
Resources:
www.dfa.gov.za/foreign/Multilateral/africa/treaties/nature.htm
Web site for the International Covenant on Social and Cultural
Rights (ICESR):
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_cescr.htm
Web site for the Convention Concerning Indigenous and Tribal
Peoples in Independent Countries (ILO
169)
www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/62.htm
The Trade Related Intellectual Property Agreement: www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/wtowip_e.htm
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Additional background papers GRAIN. 2003. Good ideas turned bad? A glossary of right-related terminology (available at www.grain.org/seedling/seed-04-01-2-en.cfm). Traditional knowledge and patentability, IISD Trade and Development Brief, No. 7, International Institute for Sustainable Development. Briggs, J., Roe, A. & Sharp, J. 2002. De-romanticizing indigenous knowledge: challenges from Egypt. In Indigenous environmental knowledge and sustainable development in semi-arid Africa. Briggs, J., Roe, A. & Sharp, J. University of Glasgow. Glasgow, United Kingdom. Hansen, S., Van Fleet, J./American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2003. Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property: A Handbook on Issues and Options for Traditional Knowledge Holders in Protecting their Intellectual Property and Maintaining Biological Diversity. |
