Center for International Environmental Law
* CIEL Launches “A Citizen’s Guide to WIPO”, a guide for enabling and enhancing the effective participation of civil society in intellectual property policy-making at the World Intellectual Property Organization.
* CIEL publishes The Citizen's Guide to the OPIC Accountability Mechanism to help give local communities affected by OPIC-supported projects a voice in the development process
* CIEL holds a side event on “Traditional Knowledge, Folklore and Genetic Resources: Developments at WIPO and other Multilateral and Regional fora” at the Convention on Biological Diversity Working Group on Article 8j in Montreal Canada, 15-19 October 2007
* CIEL prepares United Nations Environment Programme “Study on Options for Global Control of Mercury” for consideration by the ad hoc Open-ended Working Group, which will begin to review and assess measures to address the global issue of mercury at its first meeting, Bangkok, 12-16 November 2007
* CIEL publishes The Citizen's Guide to the OPIC Accountability Mechanism to help give local communities affected by OPIC-supported projects a voice in the development process
* CIEL holds a side event on “Traditional Knowledge, Folklore and Genetic Resources: Developments at WIPO and other Multilateral and Regional fora” at the Convention on Biological Diversity Working Group on Article 8j in Montreal Canada, 15-19 October 2007
* CIEL prepares United Nations Environment Programme “Study on Options for Global Control of Mercury” for consideration by the ad hoc Open-ended Working Group, which will begin to review and assess measures to address the global issue of mercury at its first meeting, Bangkok, 12-16 November 2007
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