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EED and its partners - An evening at the occasion of the Conference of the Parties
(27.05.2008) EED has invited - and a lot of people have come. After a warm welcome by Mrs Claudia Warning, member of EED board, representatives of EED partner organisations present their impressions of the conference. In a closing remark, Mr Konrad von Bonin, head of EED board, emphasizes the relevance of the work of the partners for biological diversity.
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Impact of the CBD on Indigenous Peoples Issues
(26.05.2008) Joji Cariño from Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous Centre for International Policy, Research, and Education, Philippines) explains the basic principle of the CBD, the national sovereignty of states over their genetic ressources. According to Cariño, this principle shall not be used against the rights of indigenus peoples over their traditional knowledge. The CBD negotiations on an international regime on access and benefit sharing have to incorporate the rights of indigenous peoples as fixed in the UN Declaration of September 2007.
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The Hoodia-Deal with Unilever
(25.05.2008) The Hoodia plant is a succulent used by the San Peoples of Southern Africa since ancient times in order to suppress thirst and hunger while hunting. These properties haven been patented by South Africa´s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and licensed to the transnational food company Unilever who intends to make use of Hoodia in a functional food against obesity. Mathambo Ngakaeaja from the Working Group for Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa (WIMSA) and Roger Chennels, legal advisor to the San, talk about the fight for the rights of the San for being acknowledged as the first holder of their traditional knowledge.
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The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
(24.05.2008) It took over 20 years to finally adopt the United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in September 2007. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz from Tebtebba from the Philippines, who is also the Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), informs about the importance of the Declaration and its impact on the negotiation process within the CBD.
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The "World Day of Biodiversity" in Bonn everyone celebrates in his manner...
(22.05.2008) Accompanied by NGO protests starts an event of the ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) under the title "Integrating biodiversity conservation into agricultural production". It is opened by Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the CBD. The UN secretary asks sponsorship of the industry to the "Green Wave" campaign and invites business and industry – probably in face of the notoriously tight coffers of the Convention - explicitly as "part of the solution." What follows is an event, that captivates by the simplicity of the ideas of its protagonists. Team: S. Schrade / M. Frein / U. Sprenger
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Biological Diversity

Safeguarding the Creation

A Fair Share of the Benefits from the Use

Major part of the biological diversity of the world is located in countries of the South. The North has the technology and the know-how to use genetic resources and traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples for marketable products.

The Convention on Biological Diversity calls to share the profits which evolve from this use with countries of the south, local communities and Indigenous Peoples. In practice this does not happen. Instead, biopiracy is prevalent.

The EED supports its partners in their fight against biopiracy.

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