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- A brave new world : where biotechnology and human rights intersect
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This is an overview of the international and domestic law, the law in other jurisdictions and academic commentary with regards to the human rights issues raised by selected applications of biotechnology. Chapters include: . The Current Domestic and International Human Rights Framework. Assisted Human Reproduction. Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis. A Right to Research. Human Rights Issues Related to Genetic Information and Privacy. Human Rights and Patenting. Biotechnology, Rights and Traditional Knowledge. (Government of Canada, March 2005)
http://www.biostrategy.gc.ca/HumanRights/HumanRightsE/toc_e.html
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- Aang Serian
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Aang Serian (the name means 'House of Peace' in Maasai language) is an independent, non-profit organisation founded in March 1999 by young people in Arusha, Northern Tanzania. It is officially registered with the National Arts Council of Tanzania (BASATA) as an organisation for the promotion of arts and culture. Aang Serian is now establishing itself as a global NGO dedicated to preserving indigenous traditions and knowledge, and promoting inter-cultural dialogue across the world. Aang Serian is not funded by donor agencies, or linked to any specific religious or political group. We are a diverse group of people, working with schools, colleges and community groups in Tanzania and elsewhere, daring to believe that: - By refusing to be labelled `underdeveloped‚, we can build our self-esteem. - By rediscovering our traditions, we can build our identity. - By using the skills and knowledge of our ancestors, we can build our economy. - By promoting dialogues between ethnic groups, we can build a peaceful society.
(Added: Thu Jul 08 2004 Modified: Thu Jun 22 2006 Hits: 130)
- Aboriginal Australia
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Aboriginal Australia enables indigenous organizations to come together to trade, tell stories, and engage in song and dance.
http://www.aboriginalaustralia.com/
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- Age old early warning systems saved Andaman tribes
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Central Chronicle. KOLKATA, Tuesday January 4, 2005: The five aboriginal tribes inhabiting the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, our last missing link with early civilisation, have emerged unscathed from the tsunamis because of their age old "warning systems".
http://forests.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=37845
(Added: Tue Jan 11 2005 Modified: Mon Sep 11 2006 Hits: 208)
- Best Practices using Indigenous Knowledge (PDF)
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This publication, the second co-product of Nuffic's Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Unit and UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST), is a contribution to global efforts to document local or indigenous knowledge before it is lost forever. By means of this publication various local communities and individuals are able to share and transfer their knowledge, experience and expertise. Boven, Karin (ed). Morohashi, Jun (ed). The Hague : 2002
http://www.unesco.org/most/Bpikpub2.pdf
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- Briefing Paper to United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Wai 262 Claims to Indigenous Flora and Fauna Me o o Ratou Taonga Katoa
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The Wai 262 claim is about ensuring that appropriate recognition, protection, and provision is made for Maori rights in relation to indigenous flora and fauna, their special relationship with that indigenous flora and fauna, and all knowledge and intellectual property rights that flow from that relationship. The claimants assert that these are rights that were guaranteed and protected under Article 2 of both the English and Maori versions of Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi. Despite its widely recognised significance both in Aotearoa/New Zealand and internationally, the claim has suffered many setbacks including a serious lack of funding, significant opposition from the government and ongoing unreasonable delays. Almost 15 years after the claim was filed, and notwithstanding that urgency was granted to it being heard in 1995, the claim still languishes uncompleted in the Waitangi Tribunal. (2006)
http://www.pcpd.org.nz/sr/wai262.pdf
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- Center for Indigenous Knowledge for Agriculture and Rural Development
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CIKARD focuses on preserving and using the knowledge of farmers and rural people around the globe to facilitate participatory and sustainable approaches to development.
http://www.ciesin.org/IC/cikard/CIKARD.html
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- COMPAS
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COMPAS is an international network for comparing and supporting endogenous development. The project provides support to local organisations, which are enhancing biological and cultural diversity and sustainable management of natural resources by building on Indigenous Knowledge Systems and local leadership.
http://www.compasnet.org/english/compmain/index.htm
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- Education for peace in Kenya: indigenous peace traditions and the Millennium Development Goals
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Since peace is a prerequisite for the realization of the MDGs by the year 2015, it is important to re-examine and reclaim traditional African approaches to peace building in schools. (Timothy Gachanga, Africa Files, 2005)
http://www.africafiles.org/atissueezine.asp?issue=issue1#art2
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- Education, indigenous knowledge and globalisation
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The goal of 'sustainable development' in Africa calls for a re-acknowledgement of the power and contemporary relevance of indigenous knowledge, and its systematic integration into formal and semi-formal education. This article presents a model developed through collaboration between young and old, and between rural Africa and the industrialised world, which might serve as a catalyst for other grassroots organisations to develop educational strategies appropriate to their own circumstances. (Gemma Burford, Lesikar Ole Ngila and Yunus Rafiki, Science in Africa, March 2003)
http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2003/march/ik.htm
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- From palm leaf to database
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India and Sri Lanka are seeking to make traditional medical knowledge accessible to researchers developing affordable treatments, while preserving it from biopirates, by translating ancient texts and building a Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL). While other countries are attempting to do the same, it is not so easy in oral cultures. (Tatum Anderson, Guardian Weekly, February 2007)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/outlook/story/0,,2002924,00.html
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- Gender, Local Knowledge, and Lessons Learnt in Documenting and Conserving Agrobiodiversity
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This paper explores the linkages between gender, local knowledge systems and agrobiodiversity for food security by using the case study of LinKS, a regional FAO project in Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Tanzania over a period of eight years and now concluded. The project aimed to raise awareness on how rural men and women use and manage agrobiodiversity, and to promote the importance of local knowledge for food security and sustainable agrobiodiversity at local, institutional and policy levels by working with a diverse range of stakeholders to strengthen their ability to recognize and value farmers' knowledge and to use gender-sensitive and participatory approaches in their work. (Yianna Lambrou and Regina Laub, UNU-WIDER, 2006)
http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/rps/rps2006/rp2006-69.pdf
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- Indigenous and Local Communities' Concerns and Experiences in Protecting their Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions: Vanuatu
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Traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, therefore, are the bedrock of cultural identity and community life for the great majority of people in Vanuatu. As Vanuatu has yet to put in place any intellectual property rights legislation, there is an absence of any mechanisms other than custom for the protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions (TK/TCEs). Communities lack control over (and require assistance with)the commercial misuse of TK/TCEs and the use of TK/TCEs by outsiders. Examples of misappropriation include the Nagol, which inspired bungy-jumping, pharmaceutical use of kava and ongoing bio-prospecting. (Ralph Regenvanu, paper presented at the 9th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), 24th April 2006, Geneva, Switzerland)
http://www.vanuatuculture.org/documents/RegenvanuIGC2006.DOC
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- Indigenous Democracy: Traditional Conflict Resolution Mechanisms (pdf)
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ITDG-EA, January 2004. Edited by Betty Rabar, Martin Karimi. This publication details the indigenous methods of conflict resolution among the Pokot, Tukana, Samburu, and Marakwet communities of North Rift Kenya. Traditional conflict resolution structures are closely bound with socio- political and economic realities of the lifestyles of the African communities. These conflict resolution structures are rooted in the culture and history of African people, and are in one way or another unique to each community. The overriding legitimacy of indigenous conflict resolution structures amongst these communities is striking. The publication outlines scarce and unequal access to natural resources and power, ethnic mistrust (ethnocentrism), inadequate state structures, border tensions and proliferation of illicit arms into the hands of tribal chiefs, warlords and fellow tribesmen as some of the causes of inter-ethnic conflicts in northern Kenya.
http://www.itdg.org/html/itdg_eastafrica/indigenous_democracy.htm
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- Indigenous epistemology, wisdom and tradition; changing and challenging dominant paradigms in Oceania
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This paper, presented by Dr Max Quanchi at the Social Change in the 21st Century Conference examines the value of indigenous epistemologies with particular focus on the Pacific context.
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00000630/01/quanchi-max.pdf
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- Indigenous Knowledge for Development Results
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This World Bank website opens a gateway to development approaches that rely on traditional knowledge systems to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The goal of the website is to (a) raise awareness among the development community of the role that community-based practices can play in enriching the development process; and (b) help development practitioners to mainstream indigenous/traditional knowledge into the activities of development partners and to optimize the benefits of development assistance, especially to the poor.
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- Indigenous Knowledge of Edible Tree Products - the Mungomu Tree in Central Mozambique
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This report reviews local knowledge of the Mungomu tree by the Kung Khoi-San tribe in the Kalahari Desert in Central Mozambique. The tree provides up to three quarters of the dietary needs of the tribe, but nut consumption is declining. The authors hope to stimulate the production of non-timber forest products from all forests to boost food security and incomes for communities in the area. (Gregory Saxon and Catarina Chidiamassamba, LinKS Project, FAO, 2005)
http://www.fao.org/sd/links/documents_download/Kulima_40.pdf
(Added: Tue Jun 27 2006 Hits: 86)
- Indigenous Science Network
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The Indigenous Science Network originated from a meeting in Darwin (Australia) in 1998 for people attending the Australian Science Teachers' Conference (CONASTA) and the conference of the Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA) who were interested in Indigenous science. It has expanded to include people from all over the globe and includes academics, researchers and classroom practitioners. The Network is basically an e-mail based exchange of information and ideas. There are now regular bulletins which have been archived at this site (see below). It is anticipated that the bulletins will be produced every two months.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mmichie/network.html
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- IPR and IPRO:Intellectual property rights and indigenous peoples
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This paper will discuss the efforts being made by a number of Mäori tribes in Aotearoa to have their cultural rights and values recognised and protected. There are a number of different ways in which this is occurring but the most significant case in terms of seeking protection of traditional knowledge is the claim by six tribes currently before the Waitangi Tribunal. The paper will examine from a Mäori perspective their notions of indigenous peoples rights and obligations and how they are fundamentally at odds with existing intellectual property right systems. The paper will also explore how some of the Mäori claimants consider their rights should be acknowledged, respected and protected and the inevitable obstacles that must be confronted and overcome before this can happen. Finally, the paper will consider the implications of Article 8(j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity and related provisions, and how they impact on the struggle by the Mäori to have their rights and obligations recognised and protected within Aotearoa/New Zealand. (Maui Solomon, paper presented to Global Biodiversity Forum 13 UNEP, Nairobi, May 2000)
http://www.otago.ac.nz/titi/hui/Main/Talks2/Murray.htm
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- Knowledge documentation: Kiss of death, or new lease of life?
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The Indian government is planning a major initiative to document all traditional knowledge on biodiversity and natural resources in order to safeguard against biopiracy. Notwithstanding its many potential benefits, without inbuilt safeguards this move could prove to be the undoing of traditional knowledge (Ashish Kothari, May 2008).
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- Local Pathways : Marking Five Years (PDF)
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Knowledge and Learning Group, Africa Region, The World Bank, 2004. In 1998, the World Bank launched the Indigenous Knowledge(IK)for Development Program to help learn from community based knowledge systems and development practices, and to incorporate them into Bank-supported programs. A core activity was the publication and dissemination of a series of IK Notes, where development practitioners report on successful local solutions for local development problems. The present publication, marking half a decade of the IK program, is a collection of such narratives. Thematic lead articles introduce the cases, synthesizing the lessons learned and discussing the impact indigenous knowledge can make on our development efforts and on helping to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
http://www.worldbank.org/afr/ik/ikcomplete.pdf
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- Protecting and promoting traditional knowledge systems: Systems, National Experiences and International Dimensions [PDF]
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Edited by Sophia Twarog and Promila Kapoor (2004). This book contains a unique collection of perspectives and national experiences from around the world regarding the protection of traditional knowledge, innovations and practices (TK). It takes a broad view of the subject, addressing issues ranging from the importance of TK for communities, countries and the global economy to means of preserving and protecting it as well as harnessing its potential for development and ensuring equitable distribution of economic benefits derived from TK.
http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/ditcted10_en.pdf
(Added: Mon Aug 01 2005 Modified: Thu Jun 22 2006 Hits: 103)
- Protecting Indigenous Knowledge against Biopiracy in the Andes
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This paper presents the Indigenous Biocultural Heritage Register, an approach developed by Andean communities in Peru in order to protect their knowledge against biopiracy and gain legal rights relating over their knowledge. The main objective of the register is to ensure the conservation, protection and promotion of indigenous peoples' knowledge systems for sustaining their livelihoods and traditional resource rights. The Indigenous Biocultural Heritage Register, based on traditional Andean science and technology, also uses modern tools for collecting, documenting, storing, and administering the contents of the register. (Alejandro Argumedo and Michel Pimbert, IIED, December 2006)
http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdf/full/14531IIED.pdf
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- Safeguarding Hawaiian traditional knowledge & cultural heritage: supporting the right to self-determination & preventing commodification of culture
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This paper argues that the domination of Western intellectual property law over western markets should not extend to the traditional knowledge and cultural heritage of Native Hawaiians. It explores the meaning of traditional knowledge and cultural heritage according to the Native Hawaiian narrative, and describes the harms exacted on Native Hawaiians as a result of the commodification of culture, specifically, harms to health, the environment, and sustainability. (Danielle Conway-Jones, Howard Law Journal, December 2005)
http://iipsj.org/IIPSJScholarlyActivities/2005IIPSJHLJSymposium/ConwayJonesHLJArticle.pdf
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- SciDev.Net's indigenous knowledge dossier
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This dossier is intended to contribute to the exchange of information on IK by providing relevant annotated links to external websites, offering access to discussion groups and to electronic versions of key reports and documents within the field of IK. The dossier also critically addresses key issues relating to the possible contribution of IK to development and science. It does this by presenting the experiences and perspectives of people who are working in the field through analytical policy briefs and topical opinion articles.
http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/index.cfm?fuseaction=dossierfulltext&Dossier=7
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