A-Z Site Index
Menu
  1. Recommendations Database
  2. Area of Work String: traditional knowledge
  3. Paragraph Number » Taxonomy term » Name: 50, 134
  4. Recommendations Database
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2
View

Addressee: WIPO

Paragraph Number: 50
Session: 11 (2012)
Full Text:

The Permanent Forum requests that WIPO commission a technical review, to be conducted by an indigenous expert, focusing on the draft texts concerning traditional knowledge, genetic resources and traditional cultural expressions, and to provide comments thereon to the Intergovernmental Committee through the Forum. The review should be undertaken within the framework of indigenous human rights.

Area of Work: Traditional Knowledge
View

Addressee: IASG, UNPFII

Paragraph Number: 134
Session: 6 (2007)
Full Text:

The Permanent Forum, with the assistance of relevant member of the Inter-Agency Support Group, and in collaboration with indigenous experts, will conduct timely technical reviews at critical stages in the negotiations of international standards on the protection of traditional knowledge, such as the international regime on access and benefit-sharing and the deliberations of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), to evaluate consistency and harmonization with existing and developing international legal instruments, standards and arrangements and, in particular, the human rights of indigenous peoples.

Area of Work: Traditional Knowledge