Taiwan: Taiwan Government Must Prevent Biopiracy Against Indigenous Peoples

Taiwan: Taiwan Government Must Prevent Biopiracy Against Indigenous Peoples   The Network of the Indigenous Peoples-Solomons (NIPS) calls on the Taiwan Government to develop and rigorously enforce appropriate laws to prevent future abuses of Indigenous Peoples’ rights and dignity by Taiwanese genetic researchers.   This call is in response to a case of biopiracy in which a Taiwanese researcher used genetic materials from Indigenous peoples of the Solomon Islands to file a US patent...

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