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  • UN Group: Guatemala Failed Promises
  • World Bank Set to Erode Indigenous Rights
  • Quebec Summit of the Americas: Natives fail to secure summit voice
  • Fwd: Protecting Knowledge: Indigenous Events at FTAA Peoples Summit FTAA
  • RAFI NEWS RELEASE: Bracing for 'El Nuna'
  • AI: USA: Pepper spray used repeatedly on Native American children
  • IP Declarations of Albuquerque and The Hague
  • Tragedy and Hype The Third International Soy Symposium
  • [BIO-IPR] Small yellow bean sets off intern'l patent dispute
  • AI: Guatemala: intimidation must not stop justice
  • AP: U.N.: grave human rights violations in Colombia
  • U.N.'s human rights enforcer to step down,
  • Peru: International Week of Action to Stop Torture
  • Bill Moyers' Documentary: Trade Secrets
  • [BIO-IPR] Asia slides toward UPOV
  • Thousands protest at Italian global forum
  • [BIO-IPR] EP calls for ban on patenting life under WTO
  • WP: Waging Chemical Warfare in Colombia
  • AI: Peru: Human rights must be a priority for the new government
  • Statement to the United Nations Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
  • U.N.:Foot-and-Mouth Disease Is Global Threat
  • UNCHR: Permanent open door for human rights experts
  • NAFTA's Powerful Little Secret
  • Amnesty International Criticizes Life Sentence for 14-Year-Old
  • AI: Broken bodies, shattered minds -- The torture of women worldwide
  • USA: Serious allegations of racism and injustice in Nevada death penalty case
  • Amnesty: Laws Fail Female Inmates
  • U.N.: Global Warming Can Be Fought
  • G8 Promise to Push Ahead with Troubled Climate Pact
  • [GKD] GKP Action Plan Update
  • [BIO-IPR] Resource pointer
  • [BIO-IPR] Zimbabwe fights Swiss biopiracy case
  • USA: Flouting world trends, violating international standards - 700th execution imminent
  • Quebec threatens to ignore accords if it doesn't get a role at Summit of Americas
  • Mining Indigenous Lands - Cultural Survival Quarterly 25:1
  • U.S. Human Rights Record in 2000 (2)
  • AI: MEDIA BRIEFING: "Stopping The Torture Trade"
  • Implementing the precautionary principle - GMOs
  • [BIO-IPR] Int'l Day of Farmers' Struggle on patents & seeds
  • AI: Media briefing -- Terrorism Act 2000 
  • UNEP/WMO Press Release: Global warming report details impacts on people and nature
  • [BIO-IPR] NGO meeting on TRIPS
  • Global Announcement for The Indigenous Peoples' Millennium Conference
  • top UN rights official appeals for US backing of anti-racism forum
  • Cultural Survival Quarterly-Intellectual Property Rights: Culture as Commodity
  • INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GLOBALIZATION OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
  • [BIO-IPR] The IU: Time to draw the line on IPRs
  • Indigenous peoples seek treaties to end racism
  • Environmental Justice Workshop
  • Implementing the precautionary principle - GMOs
  • [BIO-IPR] Int'l Day of Farmers' Struggle on patents & seeds
  • AI: Media briefing -- Terrorism Act 2000 
  • UNEP/WMO Press Release: Global warming report details impacts on people and nature
  • [BIO-IPR] NGO meeting on TRIPS
  • Global Announcement for The Indigenous Peoples' Millennium Conference
  • top UN rights official appeals for US backing of anti-racism forum
  • UNEP RELEASE: Cultural, Linguistic and Biological Diversity
  • Ad Hoc Working Group for NGO Participation in WCAR
  • [BIO-IPR] Brazil on TRIPS 27.3(b)
  • Senate Ends Bitter Dispute With the U.N. on U.S. Dues
  • [BIO-IPR] Options for implementing Farmers' Rights
  • UNESCO - traditional & indigenous knowledge
  • Update: Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
  • Geneva: 57th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights: Statement by Society for Threatened Peoples
  • CEFIC position on TK

    • 2001 -- UN's Year of the Volunteer...READ IT...
    Indigenous Knowledge Conference..READ IT...

    Cultural Survival Quarterly-Intellectual Property Rights: Culture as Commodity

    U.S. Signs Treaty for World Court to Try Atrocities
    NYTIMES {requires registration}
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