Concerns have been expressed over the role of WIPO in influencing the intellectual property policies of other specialized agencies of the United Nations. This article reviews the policies of FAO, WHO and UNESCO, in addition ...

The undervaluation of traditional harvesting from forest and other lands is a common pattern. This has made many persons claim that certain lands singled out for biofuels projects is ‘not in use’. Such erroneous statements ...

While there exists under-utilized lands in several countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the drive towards transforming huge areas of land to biofuel plantations must be reviewed critically. Both the facts that much of these ...

Bokanmeldelser av " The Fight for the Right to Food. Lessons Learned" (Ziegler, Golay, Mahon, Way, 2011). "Accounting for Hunger.The Right to Food in the Era of Globalization" (de Schutter, Cordes (eds), 2011). "Governing ...

On the face of it, Church of Norway takes a clear position with regard both to a liberal asylum and immigration policy and the efforts to promote understanding and integration across national, cultural and religious ...

Digni’s members constitute a wide range of Norwegian churches and missionary organisations, with partners in almost 40 countries. Their familiarity with and application of a rights-based approach differs. A participatory ...

There is no easy way to identify the policy, economic and legal linkages between food security as a goal and intellectual property rights (IPRs) as an instrument to promote and enhance human creativity and overall social ...

Den norske kirke har tradisjonelt vært en del av statsmakten i Norge. I hvilken grad har dette medført at de ansatte er lojale mot staten og den rådende samfunnsorden? Har ledende kirkeansatte og ledere engasjert seg i ...