Access and Benefit Sharing in Focus: Meetings Held on Certificate of Origin, Indigenous Peoples Rights

摘要

The international regime on access and benefit sharing (ABS), currently under negotiation under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), has opened a variety of issues, mostly new, which need to be resolved at all technical, legaland political levels, and which have attracted attention in many related fora. In this framework, the CBD has launched a group of technical experts on an internationally recognised certificate of origin/source/legal provenance, which met from 22-25 January 2007, while the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) held an international expert group meeting on the CBD's international regime on ABS and indigenous peoples' human rights from 17-19 January.