Re: [Wsis-pct] Request for support for reform at WIPO - Group NGO
stmt supporting Development Agenda available for sign-on

Perhaps some NGOs from the region will be interested in this.

Taran Rampersad

Robin Gross wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Apologies for the cross-posting, but ....
>
> Attached and below is a statement for publication at next week's WIPO
> Development Agenda Meeting. Civil society groups are invited to
> sign-on to the statement to show support for reform at WIPO, and
> specifically, support for the Friends of Development proposal.
>
> Background info on the WIPO Development Agenda meeting is posted at:
> http://www.ipjustice.org/WIPO/WIPO_DA.shtml
>
> If your NGO would like to sign-on in support of this statement, please
> send me an email (robin@ipjustice.org) and indicate the NGO name and
> country in which your NGO is based.
>
> Please send your support for this statement by TUESDAY 19 JULY so we
> can publish this on Wednesday JULY 20th at the beginning of 3rd IIM of
> the Development Agenda meeting at WIPO.
>
> And please distribute this statement as widely as possible and
> encourage other groups to please sign-on, so we can show the WIPO
> delegates that public-interest groups support reform at WIPO.
>
> Within the next day or so, this group statement (and translations)
> will also be posted to the web at:
> http://www.ipjustice.org/WIPO/NGO_Statement.shtml
> and supporting NGO names will be added there as they come in.
>
> Our statement would be much more effective if we had it translated
> into other languages - particularly Spanish, French, German, Italian,
> and Portuguese. If anyone is able to translate this document into any
> of these languages (or others), please let me know asap. We'd like to
> distribute hard-copies of these translations at the 20-22 July meeting
> also, so will need the translations completed by the 19th so we can
> make copies in Geneva for distribution on the 20th.
>
> Thank you!!
> Robin Gross
> robin@ipjustice.org
> IP Justice
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