U.N. member countries have concluded a new treaty to help ensure that traditional knowledge about genetic resources — like medicines derived from exotic plants in the Andes mountains — is properly traced. It marks the first time the 193 member states of the U.N.
GENEVA — U.N. member countries on Friday concluded a new treaty to help ensure that traditional knowledge about genetic resources, like medicines derived from exotic plants in the Andes mountains, is properly traced.
The treaty doesn’t address compensation to indigenous communities for their historic expertise about products drawn from things like from tropical plants. Daren Tang, the organization’s director-general, said the agreement showed that “multilateralism is alive and well at WIPO.” The WIPO Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge treaty, reached by consensus after more than two decades in the making, will take effect as international law after 15 countries adopt it.
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