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Biodiversity talks: Ministers in Nagoya adopt new strategy
Author: Jonathan Watts, Guardian [UK]
Environment ministers from almost 200 nations agreed...to adopt a new United Nations strategy that aims to stem the worst loss of life on Earth since the demise of the dinosaurs...[T]he UN's COP10 biodiversity conference...[adopted] a new treaty, the...
Russia Uses Microsoft to Suppress Dissent
Author: Clifford J. Levy, New York Times
It was late one afternoon…when a squad of plainclothes police officers arrived at the headquarters of a prominent environmental group…The group, Baikal Environmental Wave, was organizing protests against Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin’s decision to...
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AIDS Drugs Flow to the Third World
Author: Simeon Bennett and Tom Randall, Bloomberg Businessweek
Pharmaceutical companies, once blasted as uncaring or downright greedy for charging thousands of dollars for a year's worth of AIDS medicines like Viread in poor countries, lately have been slashing prices and licensing their drugs for free or nominal...
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[PDF] Business & human rights in South Asia – a round-up of recent developments
Author: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
This briefing highlights reports from a range of sources about how businesses have impacted human rights, positively and negatively, in South Asia over the past year (mid-2009 to mid-2010)....
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AIDS Activists Launch United Nations Complaint on Impact of Obama Administration Trade Policies on Access to Medicines
Author: Jennifer Flynn, Health GAP [USA]
...AIDS activists from the U.S., Africa, Asia, and Latin America filed a complaint against the United States with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health. The complaint argues that the United States, working side by side with...
AIDS Conference Campaigns For International Focus, Funding and Research
Author: Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch
The 18th International AIDS conference opened...in Vienna on Sunday...The biennial conference...cover[s]...new drugs and therapies, universal access, the human rights dimension of the epidemic, including stigma and discrimination, but also the impact...
[PDF] MICROSOFT/IDLO [Intl. Development Law Organization] Partnership for Access to New Technologies: a Key Challenge for developing Countries
Author: Intl Development Law Organization
[O]ften developing countries do not have the necessary financial means to carry out the required Research and development activities, indispensable to generate innovation. The only solution is to import technologies from abroad, which in turns entails...
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Author: Alexandra Quinio, sur RSE et Pays Emergents & en Développement (RSE-et-PED.info)
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Haitian farmers reject Monsanto's seeds
Author: Beverly Bell, Latin American Bureau
…"A new earthquake" is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated...
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Novartis response to concerns raised by Doctors Without Borders regarding access to medicines in India
Author: Novartis
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- This is a response from the following companies: Novartis