[Pirateninfo] 3rd World Front Against Biopiracy

[Martin Sundermann]

Meet Seeks Jt 3rd World Front Against Biopiracy
ASHOK B SHARMA
FINANCIAL EXPRESS
NEW DELHI, APRIL 8
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=56667

The two-day second conference on biotechnology for Asian development [held in New Delhi, India, April 7-8] has expressed concern over the "asymmetric" global intellectual property rights
(IPRs) regime which has failed to protect traditional knowledge from biopiracy. The gene-rich developing countries need to guard against any form of biopiracy, the conference, that ended here on Thursday said.

The conference also emphasised on regional cooperation for promoting biotech, capacity building and biosafety related issues on priority basis.

The conference was organised by the New Delhi-based NGO Research and Information System for the Non-Aglined and Other Developing Countries (RIS) in collaboration with CII and IUCN Regional Biodiversity Programme and supported by UNESCO and the Indian government.

After the conclusion of the meet RIS director-general Nagesh Kumar said, "there is an asymmetric treatment by the global regime for IPR protection of
knowledge resulting from modern innovation systems vis-a-vis the products of traditional knowledge system and biodiversity that actually represents the work of the generation of farmers." 

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"Wir brauchen keine Bio-Terroristen, wenn wir Gentechniker haben."
Independent Science Panel (www.indsp.org; dt.Ü. www.indsp.org/ISPgerman.pdf)
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