CIEL Launches "A Citizen's Guide to WIPO", a guide for enabling and enhancing the effective participation of civil society in intellectual property policy-making at the World Intellectual Property Organization.

November 6, 2007
Room 602

American University's Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC

Lunch and Welcome, 12 :00pm
Panel Discussion, 12 :30-1 :30pm

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The panel discussion will reflect civil society's successes at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and review the challenges, both substantive and procedural, to making WIPO a sustainable development-friendly organization. The objective of A Citizen's Guide to WIPO is to provide citizens and civil society organizations with the practical information required to promote and enhance their effective participation in WIPO discussions and activities. CIEL's A Citizen's Guide to WIPO describes WIPO's role in the development, implementation, and enforcement of intellectual property rules, and seeks to enable civil society to effectively insert public interest concerns into WIPO's programs and activities.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

In Washington DC: Marcos Orellana, CIEL, morellana@ciel.org, +1 202-742-5847;
In Geneva: Dalindyebo Shabalala, dshabalala@ciel.org, +41-22-321-47-74.

Please also see: CIEL hosts panel discussion on Civil Society Participation in the World Intellectual Property Organization, in parallel with the launch of CIEL’s “A Citizen's Guide to WIPO”, 1 October 2007.