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| 07.11.01 | Critical eyes will remain on the World Economic Forum (WEF) These demands will follow the WEF to New York, perhaps in a “Public Eye on New York”. The Swiss Public Eye support organizations criticize that despite growing... more |
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| 17.09.01 | NGOs Demand a Fundamental Re-thinking of the WTO TRIPS agreement Berne Declaration, Action Aid, Misereor A leader of the San group of Southern Africa, farmers from the Philippines and Pakistan and a doctor from India provided... more |
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| 24.08.01 | Final decision: Prince of Liechtenstein's Basmati patent is largely invalid Last March, the USPTO had already judged that 13 out of the 16 claims from the patent held by RiceTec (fully owned by the Prince of Liechtenstein) were not valid.... more |
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| 01.07.01 | Treaty to protect major food crops survives PRESS RELEASE GRAIN, ITDG, BERNE DECLARATION The flawed text of a new global treaty which could ensure future food security by conserving and protecting the... more |
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| 26.06.01 | Launch of the Campaign «No sell out of public services» Berne Declaration, labor unions and attac Switzerland launch the campaign "No public services sell out". Their postcard mailing action demands that Federal... more |
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| 26.06.01 | President of the World Bank urged to adopt the recommendations of the World Commission on Dams For the opening of the first International Consortium for Cooperation on the Nile in Geneva by the President of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn, the Berne... more |
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| 20.04.01 | Keep crop seeds patent-free Next week (23-28 April 2001) in Spoleto, Italy, negotiations on the revised International Undertaking at FAO will continue. The outcome of the 41 countries’... more |
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| 02.04.01 | Basmati rice «biopiracy» patent struck down by us patent office A GLOBAL campaign to overturn a US patent on basmati rice has scored a further – and near-fatal - victory with the announcement that the US Patent and Trademark... more |
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| 20.03.01 | NGOs protest against World Bank position on World Dams report The Berne Declaration and the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People protest against the World Bank's refusal to accept the recommendations of the World... more |
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| 19.03.01 | Campaigners launched international protest as WTO services negotiations begin Civil society organisations representing 30 countries from Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America threw the spotlight on what they call "a potentially... more |
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| 07.03.01 | Equal rights for men and women also applies to Swiss trade policy International Women's Day 2001 On the occasion of the International Women's Day, the Berne Declaration, the Women's Council for Foreign Policy FrAu, and the NGO... more |
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| 28.02.01 | Government and University of Zimbabwe determinded to stop biopiracy by swiss University Initiated by Berne Declaration (Switzerland) and Community Technology Development Trust of Zimbabwe a meeting was held on February 16, 2001, at the University of... more |
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| 26.01.01 | A Speaker of the "Public Eye on Davos" detained and deported n Friday, 26th, Adam Ma’anit, member of the organization Corporate Europe Observatory, was prevented from giving his talk on the role of corporations in policy... more |
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| 25.01.01 | NGOs challenge the World Economic Forum Private institutions like the World Economic Forum have no legitimate role to play in setting the agenda of global public affairs. Under the motto, "the Public Eye... more |
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