Audrey Irvine-Broque & Jessica Dempsey (University of British Columbia) examine how the international financial architecture constrains governments’ ability to protect biodiversity. Download the report 🔗 tinyurl.com/ElephantsCOP17

#COP17 New report by TWN, @FoEint, Rainforest Action Network, @GYBN_CBD & @cbd_wc exposes the economic rules, harmful financial flows & corporate interests driving biodiversity loss as countries prepare for Yerevan. Download the report 🔽 tinyurl.com/ElephantsCOP17

Watch the full statement at the UN High-Level Meeting on the Right to Development. 🎥 youtu.be/UrUXzo0EsGE

40 years after the UN Declaration on the Right to Development, global inequalities have grown sharper, while wealthy countries & powerful private actors have grown richer. TWN's Director @YokeLing15 called for a restructuring of the global economic system at #UNGA.

🌱🍲 The EU’s demands for UPOV 1991 in the trade agreement with Malaysia will raise seed prices, making food more expensive for consumers. PM @anwaribrahim: DON'T MAKE THE SITUATION IN MALAYSIA WORSE 🇲🇾 REJECT UPOV 1991 DEMAND 🔗 Read letter to the PM: consumer.org.my/civil-societ…

The EU’s intellectual property demands in the trade agreement with Malaysia will raise medical product prices in the country. PM @anwaribrahim: DON'T MAKE THE SITUATION IN MALAYSIA WORSE 🇲🇾 🔗 Read the letter to the PM: consumer.org.my/civil-societ…

✊🌏 Organizations from Malaysia, EU and elsewhere have called on the EU to drop all TRIPS-plus proposals from the #MEUFTA. 🔗 Read the full letter to the EU: tinyurl.com/44zyzvrv

Are developed countries’ positions in the PABS negotiations consistent with their human rights obligations? Prof. Sharifah Sekalala (@uniofwarwick) warns that voluntary commitments & weak benefit-sharing requirements risk repeating COVID-19 inequities in access. #FairPABS

🗣️ Join us in 1 hour Human rights, intellectual property & access and benefit-sharing experts and advocates will discuss their assessment of developed countries' positions in the PABS negotiations. 📅 10 Sept | 3pm CEST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/mrensk2p

CSOs filed a complaint with the OHCHR to scrutinize if the EU, Norway, Japan & Switzerland are living up to their human rights commitments in the WHO #PABS negotiations. Join us Thursday to discuss where they stand. 📅 10 Sept | 3pm CEST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/mrensk2p