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AALCOStatement made by Ambassador Dr. Wafik Z. Kamil, Secretary-General of AALCO in the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore, Geneva, March 15 to 19, 2004
Aldet Centre - Saint LuciaReport by the Indigenous People (Bethechilokono) of Saint Lucia Governing Council (BCG) of the Tenth Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore, Geneva, Switzerland 30 November to 8 December 2006
Aldet Centre - Saint LuciaReport on the BGC participation of the Tenth Session of WIPO/GRTKF/IC; 30 November to 8 December 2006 - covering letter
American Folklore Society (AFS)American Folklore Society Statement to the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore
Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración (ALADI)
Informe final del foro regional ALADI/OMPI sobre Protección de los conocimientos tradicionales, las expresiones culturales tradicionales (Folclore) y los recursos genéticos conexos. Perspectivas para la cooperación regional - Annex
Assembly of First Nations (AFN), Call of the Earth, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Commission (ATSIC), Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA), Canadian Biodiversity Network, Coordinating Body of the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), Hokotehi Moriori Trust, Rekohu, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Indigenous Peoples Caucus of the Creators Rights Alliance, the Kaska Dena Council, the Saami Council and the International Indian Treaty CouncilSixth session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore. Agenda Item 8; The international dimension. Preliminary submission by Assembly of First Nations, Call of the Earth, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Commission (ATSIC), Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA), Canadian Biodiversity Network, Coordinating Body of the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), Hokotehi Moriori Trust, Rekohu, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Indigenous Peoples Caucus of the Creators Rights Alliance, the Kaska Dena Council, the Saami Council and the International Indian Treaty Council: Objectives, principles and elements of an international instrument, or instruments, on intellectual property in relation to genetic resources and on the protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions
Berne DeclarationImproving the Legal Position of Stakeholders of Bioresources in the Statutory Law of developed industrial Countries
Berne DeclarationDisclosure of Origin - The proposals at the national level in Switzerland
Brazilian Indigenous Institute for Intellectual Property (INBRAPI)Carta de la sociedad sobre consulta al proyecto de ley de acceso a recursos genéticos y conocimientos tradicionales asociados
Brazilian Indigenous Institute for Intellectual Property (INBRAPI)Declaración del RIO NIGRO a cerca de la consulta pública de proyecto del leye sobre aceso y protección a los conocimientos tradicionales de los pueblos indígenas
Call of the EarthStatement at the Fifth Session of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore
Call of the EarthStatement on WIPO document WIPO/GRTKF/IC/5/11 "Participation of Indigenous and Local Communities"
CIEL - The Center for International Environmental LawThe gap between Indigenous Peoples' Demands and WIPO's Framework on Traditional Kwowledge
GEED-FoundationResolutions of GEED-Foundation to the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore
GRAIN“The great protection racket: Imposing IPRs on traditional knowledge”, Seedling, January 2004
Health and Environment ProgramDéclaration de Health and Environment Program au comité intergouvernemental sur la propriété intellectuelle, les ressources génétiques, les savoirs traditionnels et le folklore - le 16 mars 2004
Health and Environment ProgramDéclaration de Health and Environment Program au comité intergouvernemental sur la propriété intellectuelle, les ressources génétiques, les savoirs traditionnels et le folklore - le 17 mars 2004
International Chamber of CommerceProtecting traditional knowledge - Commission on Intellectual and Industrial Property, 3 December 2001
International Chamber of CommerceDiscussion Paper - Access and Benefit-Sharing for Genetic Resources
International Chamber of CommercePolicy statement - Trips and the Biodiversity Convention: What Conflict?
International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFFRO)Intervention of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFFRO) - Veronica Williams (Secretary General) on the occasion of the IGC on IP and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore, 15-19, 2004
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)Protecting Community Rights over Traditional Knowledge: Implications of Customary Laws and Practices
International Publishers Association (IPA)
IPA Intervention for the Sixth Session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore; Geneva, 16 March 2004
Kaska Dena Council (KDC)Statement at the Sixth Session of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore
Kaska Dena Council (KDC)Statement on WIPO document WIPO/GRTKF/IC/6/4 entitled “Traditional Knowledge: Policy and Legal Options”
Kaska Dena Council (KDC)Statement at the Sixth Session of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore on WIPO documents WIPO/GRTKF/IC/6/6 and WIPO/GRTKF/IC/6/12. Regarding a Prospective International Regime
Pauktuutit Inuit Women's AssociationInuit Women's Traditional Knowledge Workshop on the Amauti and Intellectual Property Rights. Final Report.
Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, May 24 to 27, 2001
Pauktuutit Inuit Women's AssociationIntellectual Property Rights and the Inuit Amauti. A Case Study
prepared for The World Summit on Sustainable Development.
Saami CouncilStatement at the Sixth Session of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore on Agenda Item 5, Traditional Cultural Expressions
Saami Council

Statement at the Sixth Session of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore on Agenda Item 6, Traditional Knowledge

Tebtebba FoundationStatement to the 5th session of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resource, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore
Tulalip Tribes of WashingtonStatement by the Tulalip Tribes of Washington on Folklore, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Public Domain
July 09, 2003

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