Harry Jonas presented at a side event on bio-cultural protocols on Wednesday 11 November. The side event was introduced by Balakrishna Pisupati (UNEP-DELC) who also launched a community protocols website developed by Natural Justice. The other speakers were Ana Persic(UNESCO), Barbara Lassen (GTZ) and Brendan Tobin (Irish Centre for Human Rights). Kabir Bavikatte spoke at a side event on Thursday hosted by the Irish Centre for Human Rights and included presentations by Joji Carino (Tebtebba) and Brendan Tobin.
Publishing activities:
In addition, Natural Justice made three submissions to ECO, a publication of the CBD Alliance. The following are links to those articles:
1) ABS (1) Towards a traditional knowledge commons;
2) Intervention by Natural Justice on behalf of Civil Society Organizations on Capacity Building
ABSWG-8, Montreal, Canada - 9 Nov 2009
ABSWG-8, Montreal, Canada - 9 Nov 2009
3) ABS (3) Article by Johanna von Braun and Kabir Bavikatte: No narrowing of the definition of TK
Furthermore, an article written by Natural Justice was published in Square Brackets, the CBD newsletter for civil society on biocultural community protocols.
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