Sharing royalties with local communities and Governments

It should make no distinction between fundamental political, social and economic freedoms, stressing as much the right to food and medical care as the right to a fair trial.

We're here, we're part of a community, sharing out ideas and discussing them.

Indigenous communities enjoyed a whole range of rights and prerogatives which protected their existence as legal entities and their autonomy in respect of organization, communal work and the free use of their lands.

All these things are share platforms, but sharing ultimately starts and ends with what I refer to as the mother of all share platforms.

In those societies and cultures where traditions place greater emphasis on the community, patients may more readily authorize the sharing of confidential information with their family or community.

States Parties to the present Convention recognize the equal right of all persons with disabilities to live in the community, with choices equal to others, and shall take effective and appropriate measures to facilitate full enjoyment by persons with disabilities of this right and their full inclusion and participation in the community, including by ensuring that

Enhancing respect for, and the maintenance and protection of, the knowledge, innovations and practices of traditional, indigenous and Afro descendant communities and the equitable distribution of the profits arising from their utilization

Such periodic rotation could ensure, furthermore, equitable and balanced representation of all the five subregions of Africa.

(e) Establishment of a virtual community of knowledge to share experiences and lessons learned in the areas of macroeconomic policy, external shocks and social protection systems in relation to poverty, inequality and social vulnerability

Noting that communities can provide traditional knowledge based on wisdom and practices, the Asia Pacific group called for community participation in planning, implementation and benefit sharing, as well as economic incentives privatization and ownership of forest landscape restoration projects an enabling legal policy framework equity in benefit sharing and a change in attitudes.

Fair shares for all, and all that nonsense!

We understand fully the desire of Africa for greater representation as well as for equal rights with other regions.

For example, communality applies most naturally within family or friends, but it can be used to try to transfer the mentality of sharing to groups that ordinarily would not be disposed to exercise it.

Article 8 (j) also requires that benefits arising from the application of traditional knowledge, innovations and practices should be shared equitably with the indigenous communities concerned.

Findings must be recorded and shared, notably through the TPNs of the regional action programmes (RAPs) and the subregional action programmes (SRAPs), supported by regional and subregional institutions.

National and regional inequities in the ESCWA region are very pronounced.

In this connection, the Committee is concerned that, despite the legislation enacted to allow indigenous communities to enjoy the full use of their traditional lands in a communal way, there remain obstacles to the full enjoyment of the rights protected under article 27 of the Covenant.

Lack of inclusion in community development and such unevenness in the sharing of resources and profit demonstrate the ongoing injustice of cultural domination, an insidious form of poverty.

Moreover, most water resources used in the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) region, both surface water and groundwater, are shared by several riparian countries.

It is further noted with concern that some effects of the economic and social policy of the Government threaten the enjoyment of the social and economic rights of persons belonging to indigenous communities.

80 indigenous men sharing their expertise, skills and knowledge, and forming networks to enhance their community work

The United Nations peacekeeping and assistance missions, together with support from non governmental organizations, help to ensure that civilians in those regions are not denied the dividends of peace.

She further referred to the document prepared by the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and Traditional Knowledge, which said that the benefits of traditional knowledge should be shared equally with the indigenous communities concerned .

An increasing number of networks are helping to ensure that the challenges and opportunities facing mountain people and their environments are shared in mountain communities and beyond.

The first phase of the 4K Smart TV Safe Home Sharing Platform will introduce the four modules of Guangzhou Neighborhood , New Guangzhou People s Home , Smart Community and Smart Home to explore the construction of smart communities.

It was reported that a disproportionate number of victims in the conflict between the Government and the Maoist insurgency were from their communities and that they were also affected by caste based discrimination and denied equal access to resources.

Discussions are also ongoing with regard to the participation of ESCAP and the other regional commissions in the interregional meeting of experts on a society for all ages, to take place in mid 1999.

The relevant indicators used to assess such an adequate standard of living, and its incidence among the child population, including by gender, age, region, rural urban area, social and ethnic origin, and family situation

Policy, Regulatory Frameworks and Equitable Benefit Sharing

Thus, the Government, aware of the need to uplift the lifestyle of the indigenous cultural communities and at the same time preserve their culture, created the Office of the Northern Cultural Communities, the Office of the Southern Cultural Communities and the Office of the Muslim Affairs in order to promote and protect their rights to health.

The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific is planning a seminar in December 1998 on a society for all ages, along the lines of the four facets of the conceptual framework, with particular attention to the relationship of the individual to society.

The international community also subscribed to the principles and goals of equitable human settlements, in which all people have equal access to housing, infrastructure, health services, adequate food and water, education and open spaces.

Noting that a formal or legal distinction at the national level between different kinds of religions or faith based communities may, in some cases, constitute discrimination and may impinge on the enjoyment of the freedom of religion or belief,

16. While the basic ideal underlying a society for all and a society for all ages is that of equality and equity for all citizens, the adjustments needed to bring about such an ideal are many and will affect thinking, planning and practical arrangements for decades to come.

3. Equality of opportunity and access to social services (paras. 130 158)

That all have equal rights to education, regardless of gender.

The purpose of the Declaration was to ensure that persons belonging to any of those communities should be entitled to maintain and develop their own culture while enjoying equality in the larger, national society.

The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific is currently developing a standard to facilitate the wider use of sharing of resource databases in the region of Asia and the Pacific.

South Pacific Subregional Programme

International Corporations should negotiate with the indigenous communities a just and fair profit sharing arrangement, prior to signing of any kind of agreement, and with full disclosure of the projected profit and complete development plans for the relevant project, to ensure that the peoples concerned receive an equitable profit share and or compensation package.

And most importantly, they had this ethos of sharing information.

The country has an extremely unequal regional distribution of income, and half of the population has been left untouched by the benefits of modernization.

All the country's inhabitants enjoyed equal social and economic rights.

Any benefit generated by such information shall be shared equitably.