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Indigenous Groups Allege Canadian Obstructionism To Biodiversity ABS Protocol

By Intellectual Property Watch

NAGOYA, JAPAN - With the clock ticking and less than a day to go before a draft of a legally binding instrument to prevent biopiracy is due to be presented to the assembly of a major United Nations meeting on biodiversity, delegations kept trying to find acceptable language, with different echoes coming from the negotiating room. Meanwhile, Canadian indigenous people convened a press briefing today (21 October) to charge that Canada was trying to block the negotiations and deny their human rights.

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Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on October 21, 2010 (boomark / email).