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26 Jun, 2006: Talks Continue in Provisional Committee for a Development Agenda (PCDA) at WIPO
The Provisional Committee for a Development Agenda (PCDA) at WIPO is holding its final meeting 26-30 June 2006 in Geneva to make recommendations to the 2006 WIPO General Assembly that are intended to incorporate a development dimension into WIPO's work.
The UN Specialized Agency has been under fire recently, particularly from developing countries and public interest groups, to reform its norms and practices in accordance with the United Nations' mandate of promoting social and economic development. WIPO has been criticized as mainly promoting the narrow private interest of large intellectual property holders in the US and Europe. The Development Agenda at WIPO is an effort by 15 developing countries to reassert WIPO's public interest mission. It ...
26 Jun, 2006: IP JUSTICE STATEMENT at the 2nd Session of the Provisional Committee for a Development Agenda at WIPO
IP Justice Statement
at the
2nd Session of the
Provisional Committee for a Development Agenda at WIPO
26 - 30 June 2006 - Geneva, Switzerland
By IP Justice Executive Director Robin D. Gross
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to address this Provisional Committee for a Development Agenda (PCDA) at WIPO. I represent IP Justice, an international public interest NGO that promotes balanced intellectual property laws.
IP Justice would like to register its support for the June 23rd proposal submitted by the Friends of Development on the "Decision of the PCDA on the Establishment of a WIPO Development Agenda" (PCDA/2/2). This document has carefully synthesized various proposals into 21 concrete ...