Intellectual property and the right to participate in cultural life: On 9 May, 3D urged the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to address the ways that intellectual property and related standards affect enjoyment of the right to participate in cultural life.
3D presents its concerns about impacts of intellectual property protection on the right to food: In a presentation to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on 28 April, 3D set out a range of ways in which stricter IP standards relating to seeds in India can impact the right to food, as well as the right to participate in cultural life. Read the country briefing
Intellectual Property v. Human Rights? On 13 March, 3D organized a panel discussion entitled ´Tackling the Negative Impacts of Intellectual Property Systems - A Human Rights Approach´ (organized in collaboration with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC).) Read more about the panel Read 3D´s report of the panel in English, in Spanish Read IP-Watch´s report of the panel