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Link access to knowledge and human rights strategically: 3D actively participated in the fourth Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K4) – Access to knowledge and human rights, hosted by the Information Society Project at the Yale University Law School (USA) from 11 to 13 February 2010. The conference sought to lay the conceptual and strategic groundwork to build bridges between the A2K and human rights communities. The participants examined the ways in which intellectual property, Internet governance, technological regulation and innovation systems impact human rights; how rights-based methodologies, arguments and institutions could advance A2K goals as well as the opportunities, challenges and risks of a more intensive collaboration between the human rights and A2K communities. Videos and blog post summaries of all plenary panels and workshops are now available online.
Read Violette Ruppanner’s contribution to the Workshop “The Right to Development: Bridging the Gap between Human Rights & IP?”
Download the introduction to the closing panel on “Rights-Based Strategies for Advancing Access to Knowledge”
Watch the closing panel and read the blog summary
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights calls into question Switzerland´s foreign economic policy-making: Before the Session with the Committee in November 2010, Switzerland will have to respond how it ensures that its multilateral negotiations and bilateral agreements do not have an adverse impact on economic, social and cultural rights in other countries, including in relation to access to medicines. This and other related questions are included in the Committee´s List of Issues, addressed to the Swiss government.
Missing policy coherence in Switzerland: trade interests overriding right to health? In this report presented to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in November 2009, 3D highlights the potentially adverse effects of Intellectual Property rules contained in Swiss free trade agreements on access to medicines in other countries.
Read the country briefing
Towards more coherence between international trade and the rights of the child: On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the rights of the child, celebrated on 8 and 9 October 2009 in the Centre International des Conférences in Geneva, 3D has published a paper on the importance of taking into account children´s rights in international trade.
Read the paper
Panel on human rights impact assessments, 30 September 2009
On the occasion of the WTO Public Forum, 3D held an interactive session on “Human rights impact assessment (HRIA): A pertinent tool for informing and improving trade governance?”. The panel was co-sponsored by the OHCHR and brought together Eckart Guth, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Delegation of the EC to the International Organisations in Geneva; James Harrison, Professor of Law, University of Warwick; Sanya Reid Smith, Legal Advisor, Third World Network in Geneva and Simon Walker, PhD candidate, Utrecht University. Gabrielle Marceau, Councellor at the Office of the WTO Director General, moderated the debate.
Read the summary of the session
Listen to the audio recording of the session
Background information on HRIA
Threat to the right to food of children in Burkina Faso: intellectual property on seeds
In the submitted report for the upcoming presession of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in October, 3D highlights the potential consequences that the intellectual protection of new varieties may have on the enjoyment of children’s right to food in Burkina Faso.
Read the country briefing, in French
Impact of copyright rules on the right to education in the Philippines
During the last pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child in June, 3D - in collaboration with IBON Foundation - submitted a report advocating for flexibilities within copyright legislation to promote access to education.
Read the country briefing
New publication! Seeds of hunger: intellectual property rights on seeds and the human rights response
3D’s latest publication analyzes the rise of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on seeds and the implications of this for rural livelihoods, cultural practices and the global food supply. It illustrates several human rights concerns related to IPRs on seeds and suggests some possible actions human rights advocates and others can undertake. The Backgrounder is part of the THREAD [Trade, Human Rights and the Economy: Action upDates] series, a topical information and action-alert series on trade, designed for people concerned with human rights.
Read the Backgrounder
Read the executive summary
Read other publications in this series
3D Advisory board member wins prestigious award
On 26 June Geoff Tansey, member of 3D’s Advisory Board, and Tasmin Rojotte won the Derek Cooper Award for Campaigning and Investigative Food Writing for their book The Future Control of Food. The award was presented in London on behalf of the Guild of Food Writers which annually rewards outstanding achievements of food writers. Last year Geoff Tansey already won the other Derek Cooper Award at the BBC’s Food and Farming Awards.
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