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
On 28 March 2023, AIR Trust submitted these documents to the Secretariat of the UN Convention on Bioloas views from AIR Trust, on behalf of an independent group of interdisciplinary Māori researchers, community members, and stakeholders. The submission relates to CBD Article 8j, and the issues for further consideration as reproduced from the Annex to COP15 Decision … Continue reading Decision 15/9 Submission
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