Manu Caddie is an inaugural member of the Cali Fund Steering Committee, representing the Pacific region, here he writes in his role as an occasional policy advisor for Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust. The following version of this post has been updated from the original (31/8/26) based on additional information contained in a longer piece published … Continue reading The Cali Fund needs scrutiny, but so does the claim of contributor control.
Manu Caddie is a member of the inaugural Steering Committee for the Multilateral Mechanism for the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources, including the Cali Fund, representing Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the Pacific region. This post is a revised version of an earlier … Continue reading Assessing Third World Network’s Critique of the CBD Database Study
this Q+A with Air trust member katie lee riddle (rongowhakaata) was originally published by cultural survival (10/10/24) KatieLee Riddle descends from the Iwi of Rongowhakaata on the East Coast of New Zealand’s North Island. She is a Māori researcher at Te Kotahi Research Institute, an interdisciplinary research hub based at the University of Waikato in … Continue reading Digital Sequence Information Poses Risks to Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Biodiversity
Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust 