WTO: NGO discussion on WTO and TRIPS

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

http://www.cptech.org/wto/wto-99-trips.html


December 1, 1999
Seattle, at the WTO NGO Center
10 am to Noon


          NGO discussion on WTO and TRIPS

               Sponsored by 

               Consumer Project on Technology 
               Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
               Health Action International, and 
               Institutue for Agiculture and Trade Policy. 


     This will be a discussion of the WTO's Agreement on Trade Related
Aspects of International Trade (TRIPS), on December 1, 1999, from 10AM
to Noon. 

     The location will be the the Madison Room, which is in the 4th
floor in the Madison Hotel. 

     The topics covered will include, but not be limited to: 

         Access to Medicines 
         Electronic Commerce 
         TRIPS and the enviroment 
         TRIPS and biotechnology 

     Among those attending this session will be: 

     Ralph Nader
     Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires
     David Downes, Center for Internatinal Environmental Law
     Bas van der Heide, Health Action International
     Ellen't Hoen, Médecins Sans Frontières
     Bernard Pecoul, Médecins Sans Frontières
     Robert Weisman, Essential Action
     James love, Consumer Project on Technology
     Richard Wilder, WIPO
     Yehudah Livneh, International Generic Pharmaceutical Alliance
     Jim Keon, International Generic Pharmaceutical Alliance
     Mark Raijmakers, Wemos
     Mark Silbergeld, Consumers Union and Consumers International
     Zafar Mirza, Health Action International

     WTO creditials will apparently be required to attend the meeting.
For more information, contact Thiru Balasubramaniam, at
thiru@cptech.org. 


-- 
James Love / Director, Consumer Project on Technology
http://www.cptech.org / love@cptech.org
P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
voice 202.387.8030 / fax 202.234.5176