Map: IHW's International Transfers of Human Tissue
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This map illustrates the transfer of human tissues through third countries. This graphic is part of the Communique on Human Tissue Trade.
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The Human Tissue Trade
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The Global Traffic and Market in Human Biomaterials
Despite the promise of medical breakthroughs, the utilization of human tissue prompts intense ethical concerns regarding ownership of human biomaterials, eugenics, discrimination and medical confidentiality. A large and growing South to North and North to North movement of human tissue is taking place in an almost total policy and regulatory vacuum.
World's Top 10 Seed Corporations
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Ranked According to 1996 Seed Sales
Company Estimated 1996 seed sales (US) millions Comment
Pioneer Hi-Bred Intl. (USA) $1,721 Dupont now owns 20% share in Pioneer
Novartis (Switzerland) $991 formerly Ciba Geigy and Sandoz
Limagrain (France) $552 French cooperative; claims to be the world's largest vegetable seed company.
Advanta - joint venture of Zeneca/Van der Have (The Netherlands) $493 Zeneca and Royal VanderHave established joint venture in 1996. The name of their merged company is Advanta
Legislation in US Congress Proposes to Privatize the US Patent and Trademark Office
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Just when we thought that the U.S. patent system couldn't possibly operate any more to the advantage of big business, there's a bill before the US Congress that proposes to modernize" the US Patent and Trademark Office by making it a private corporation. (1)
Privatization of the US PTO? This is not a joke. HR 400, "The 21st Century Patent System Improvement Act" is a series of six acts that propose major changes in the US patent system. Backed by powerful interests, the bill is moving quickly through Congress, and a vote is expected in the House of Representatives any day.
Enclosures of the Mind: Intellectual Monopolies
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A Resource Kit on Community Knowledge, Biodiversity, and Intellectual Property Rights
An introduction to intellectual property monopolies. The 70 page booklet produced by IDRC in 1996 is designed as an information and advocacy tool for civil society and policymakers in response to two new, legally binding international agreements: the Convention on Biological Diversity and the World Trade Organization's Trade Related Intellectual Property Agreement (WTO/TRIPs).
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1996 Biopiracy Update
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Bolivian Quinoa Claimed in US Patents
"Biopiracy" -- a term coined by RAFI in 1994 - refers to the use of intellectual property laws to gain exclusive monopoly control over genetic resources that are based on the knowledge and innovation of farmers and indigenous peoples. This issue examines a patent claim on Bolivian quinoa, a US patent on turmeric, and more.
RAFI Translator: "MUSE" or MonoUSE?
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"MUSE": MUltilateral System of Exchange
Protocol on Gene Access Could MUSEum Farmers' Rights & Sanction North's MonoUSE
The Parts of Life-an issue of Development Dialogue, 1996
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The Parts of Life Agricultural Biodiversity, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Role of the Third System By Pat Roy Mooney
Development Dialogue is published by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation.
US Government Dumps the Hagahai Patent
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Official Notice to Coincide with Human Rights Day
After months of indecision and confusing signals, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has finally put an end to its internationally-denounced patent on the human cell line of a Hagahai indigenous person from Papua New Guinea. I hope this is the end of what is arguably the most offensive patent ever issued." says Alejandro Argumedo of the Canada-based Indigenous Peoples' Biodiversity Network (IPBN).
The Life Industry
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New IPR Resource Kit Available. U.S. Equivocates on Hagahai Patent
This is RAFI's first annual update on the "Life Industry" - the giant transnational enterprises that use, buy, sell and control an ever-growing market share of bio-industrial products relating to food, agriculture and health. A list of the top 10 corporations, ranked by 1995 sales, is given for each sector.
Financial Statements
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Years covered:
1995-1996
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Media Impact Report
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RAFI's Publications, Media Coverage, and Outreach
Years covered:
1995-1996
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Empresas Farmacéuticas hacen ofertas por las Colecciones de los Jardines Botánicos del Norte
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... en un Intento de eludir la convención de biodiversidad
Rápida vuelta atrás en la Patente sobre el Soya ONGs Ecuatorianas Detienen Tratado Bilateral de Propiedad Intelectual con U.S.A. Algodón Bt de Monsanto "Fracasa en el campo"
Pharmaceutical Companies Bid for Northern Botanical Garden Collections in Attempt to Avoid the Biodiversity Convention
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Cotton "Failing in the Field"
Pharmaceutical firms and biotech companies are approaching botanical gardens to buy samples of tropical plant diversity - a clear violation of the spirit - if not the law - of the Convention on Biological Diversity. The rights of farmers and indigenous peoples are being bypassed by corporate deals that make a mockery of the CBD's fundamental principles.
Volume 3, #1 The Leipzig Process:
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Food Security, Diversity, and Dignity in the Nineties
RAFI reviews the context, issues, events and strategies leading up to the Fourth Technical Conference on Plant Genetic Resources in Leipzig, 17-23 June 1996. A 12 page document.
RAFI Translator: Security or Dependency?
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Draft World Food Summit Declaration and Plan of Action Entrenches Food Insecurity – but the Debate is Far from Over
New Questions About Management and Exchange of Human Tissue at NIH / Indigenous Person's Cells Patented
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Human Tissue Collection Initiatives by the U.S. Military; Colombian Indigenous Peoples' Cells in the U.S.; Accompanying maps showing cell collections inColombia and Papua New Guinea
Nuevas Interrogantes Acerca del Manejo e Intercambio de Tejido Humano en el Instituto Nacional de Salud de los Estados Unidos (NIH) Células Indígenas Patentadas
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Iniciativa de colectas de tejido humano del Ejército de Estados Unidos; células colombianas de indígenas en EE.UU, mapas sobre puntos de colecta en Papua Nueva Guinea y en Colombia.
Nadie controla ni monitorea el flujo transfronterizo de recursos genéticos humanos entre investigadores militares y civiles, que se da de forma irrestricta. El patentamiento de una línea celular de una persona de la cultura Hagahai de Papua Nueva Guinea, revela las deficiencias éticas y de derechos humanos en la investigación médica y en los protocolos intergubernamentales.
The Geopolitics of Biodiversity: A Biodiversity Balance Sheet
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Crucial Decisions in 1996. The Real Hot Spots.
RAFI's survey of agricultural biodiversity reveals that 75% of ex situ genetic resources and technology are held in the North, while 83% of in-situ genetic resources and technology are held in the South. Multilateral regimes for agricultural biodiversity management must insure that proceeds from biodiversity benefits go to the South's farmers.
Bioprospección/biopiratería y comunidades indigenas
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Galería de la Verguenza de los Bioprospectores... o Adivine Quién Viene a Piratear sus Plantas! Bilateralismo vs. Multilateralismo
La prospección de la biodiversidad es la exploración, extracción y análisis de los recursos genéticos y biológicos, en sí mismos y en relación a los conocimientos indígenas, para evaluar su posible aplicación industrial como recursos genéticos y bioquímicos de alto valor comercial. En la amplia mayoría de los casos, RAFI los denomina casos de "biopiratería".
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