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Addressee: SPFII, SCBD
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The Permanent Forum urges its secretariat, in cooperation with the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, to organize a side-event on the occasion of the fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing of the Convention on Biological Diversity, as an occasion for the co-chairs of the Working Group, States parties and other interested groups to consider the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the international expert group meeting, held from 17 to 19 January 2007, on the Convention on Biological Diversity’s international regime on access and benefit-sharing and indigenous peoples’ human rights.
Responses
The secretariat of the Convention worked in
partnership with the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity to present a side event during the fifth meeting of the Working Group on Article 8(j) drawing attention to the international expert meetings facilitated by the Permanent Forum (January 2007) and another relevant expert meeting facilitated by the secretariat of the Convention (September 2007), both of which considered indigenous peoples’ issues relevant to the negotiation and elaboration of an international regime on Access and Benefit-Sharing.
Final Report of UNPFII Session 6 (2007)
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