Convention on Biological DIversity: DRAFT PROTOCOL: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ OBJECTIONS TO THE CURRENT TEXT

The Convention on Biological Diversity Open-ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-sharing, has issued the following publication:UNEP/CBD/WG-ABS/9/INF/22, Draft Protocol: Indigenous Peoples' Objections to the Current Text -- A Call for Justice and Solidarity at the request of the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee)

See the following links for information on the Working Group on Access and Benefit Sharing:
http://www.cbd.int/abs/

http://www.unutki.org/default.php?doc_id=50

Comment on the International Bar Association's Model Mining Development Agreement

From Investment Treaty news:

In October 2009, at its annual meeting in Madrid, the Mining Law Committee of the International Bar Association launched a project to develop a Model Mining Development Agreement (MMDA). The MMDA was conceived to provide a different starting point for the negotiation of mining contracts between host governments and mining companies, one based expressly on promoting sustainable social, economic and environmental development through more equitable and transparent mining agreements.

Continued at http://www.investmenttreatynews.org/cms/news/archive/2010/09/23/the-iba-s-model-mining-development-agreement-a-new-paradigm-for-natural-resource-projects.aspx