[governance] [Fwd: Secret Counterfeiting Treaty Must Be Made Public, Global OrganizationsSay]

Sun Sep 14 21:02:38 EDT 2008

All,

  FTY, and for those of you that would like to also sign on.
see:
http://www.essentialaction.org/access/index.php?/archives/173-Secret-Counterfeiting-Treaty-Public-Must-be-Made-Public,-Global-Organizations-Say.html
and or contact Sarah Rimmington at srimmington at essentialinformation.org

FWIW, this has serious and obvious implications to individual
rights and any good "Internet Bill of Rights" for this 
caucus.

Also FWIW, I noticed Google is not signed on...  ????
But I remain hopeful that Google will sign on in accordance
with all freedom loving peoples all over the globe.  Maybe
Vint can "Evangelize" with his fellow Sr. Executives at
Google to do so.  Good luck Vint!  >:)

  I also noticed that ICANN nor the ITU have signed on board
either.  Lets all hope that they will do so soon as well! >:)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Secret Counterfeiting Treaty Must Be Made Public, Global
OrganizationsSay
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:21:35 -0400
From: Sarah Rimmington <srimmington at essentialinformation.org>
To: grenouf at choice.com.au, CORPORACION OPCION <cor.opcion at gmail.com>,
olivier at corporateeurope.org, mirashiva at yahoo.com, noon2th at yahoo.com,
mario at cej.org.mx, Soha Abdelaty <soha at eipr.org>, dave at difference.com.au,
nic at suzor.com, katitza at datos-personales.org, Wim Vandevelde
<wim-vandevelde at usa.net>,emira at ips-dc.org, George Carter
<fiar at verizon.net>, ifarma at etb.ne.co, jiraporn
<ljirapor at chula.ac.th>,alaegre at fma.ph

Dear all,
Following you will find a press release and then the final version of
the global sign-on letter to the countries negotiating the
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).  
The letters were faxed to the relevant trade ministers this morning. 
There were just over 175 endorsements (just over 100 of which where from
civil society organizations; the remainder were experts and
individuals).  

You can download he full text of the letter and the list of signers at: 
http://www.essentialaction.org/access/uploads/ACTA-signon.rtf

Additional quotes from international groups signing the letter are 
available at:
http://www.essentialaction.org/access/uploads/ACTAquotes.rtf

You can also access the documents on Essential Action's website at: 
www.essentialaction.org/access/index.php?/archives/173-Secret-Counterfeiting-Treaty-Public-Must-be-Made-Public,-Global-Organizations-Say.html

If you would like to keep up with activities relating to campaigning and
collarborating on this issue in the United States (focused on
copyright/privacy and related tech issues not access to medicines)
please contact Gwen Hinze at Electronic Frontier Foundation
(gwen at eff.org) and ask to be added to the ENFORCE email list.  

Thanks for your solidarity.  

Regards,
Sarah Rimmington
Attorney
Essential Action, Washington, DC, USA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 15, 2008

For more information contact:
USA: Robert Weissman, director, Essential Action +1 (202) 387-8030, 
(Mobile) +1 (202) 360-1844, rob at essential.org

Australia: Kimberlee Weatherall, Lecturer, TC Beirne School of Law, The 
University of Queensland and Board Member, Australian Digital Alliance, 
(Mobile) +61 4 0376 2544, k.weatherall at law.uq.edu.au

Canada: Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and e-commerce 
Law, University of Ottawa, (Office) +1 (613) 562-5800 ext. 3319, 
mgeist at uottawa.ca

Korea: Byoung-il Oh, Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet, (Tel) 
+82-2-774-455, (Mobile) +82-19-213-9199, antiropy at www.jinbo.net

**Secret Counterfeiting Treaty Must Be Made Public, Global Organizations 
Say**

More than 100 public interest organizations from around the world today 
called on officials from the countries negotiating Anti-Counterfeiting 
Trade Agreement (ACTA) -- the United States, the European Union, 
Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Australia and New 
Zealand -- to publish immediately the draft text of the agreement.

Secrecy around the treaty negotiation has fueled concerns that its terms 
will undermine vital consumer interests.

Organizations signing the letter include: Consumers Union, Electronic 
Frontier Foundation, Essential Action, IP Justice, Knowledge Ecology 
International, Public Knowledge, Global Trade Watch, U.S. Public 
Interest Research Group, IP Left (Korea), Australian Digital Alliance, 
The Canadian Library Association, Consumers Union of Japan, National 
Consumer Council (UK) and Doctors without Borders Campaign for 
Essential Medicines.

Based on leaked documents and industry comments on the proposed treaty, 
the groups expressed concerns that ACTA may:

* Require Internet Service Providers to monitor all consumers' Internet 
communications;

* Interfere with fair use of copyrighted materials;

* Criminalize peer-to-peer electronic file sharing; and

* Undermine access to low-cost generic medicines.

"Because the text of the treaty and relevant discussion documents remain 
secret, the public has no way of assessing whether and to what extent 
these and related concerns are merited," say the public interest groups 
in their letter.

Worsening the problem is the perception that industry lobbyists have 
access to the text and are influencing the negotiations. "The lack of 
transparency in negotiations of an agreement that will affect the 
fundamental rights of citizens of the world is fundamentally 
undemocratic. It is made worse by the public perception that lobbyists 
from the music, film, software, video games, luxury goods and 
pharmaceutical industries have had ready access to the ACTA text and 
pre-text discussion documents through long-standing communication
channels."

"Why in the world are trade negotiators keeping the treaty a secret?" 
asks Robert Weissman, director of Essential Action. "Are they worried 
about counterfeiters influencing the negotiations? What possible 
rationale is there for secrecy -- other than to lock out the public? 
Intentionally or not, a treaty to prevent unauthorized copying may 
easily go too far, and undermine important consumer interests. That's 
why it is so important that this deal be negotiated in the light of
day."

The full text of the letter and the list of signers are available at: 
http://www.essentialaction.org/access/uploads/ACTA-signon.rtf

Additional quotes from international groups signing the letter are 
available at:
http://www.essentialaction.org/access/uploads/ACTAquotes.rtf

You can also access the documents at: 
www.essentialaction.org/access/index.php?/archives/173-Secret-Counterfeiting-Treaty-Public-Must-be-Made-Public,-Global-Organizations-Say.html

Essential Action is a public health and corporate accountability group 
located in Washington, DC.

---

***Additional Comments on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
Negotiations***

Kimberlee Weatherall, Lecturer, TC Beirne School of Law, The University
of Queensland, and Board Member, Australian Digital Alliance 
"It's extraordinary that a treaty which potentially affects such a wide
range of interests would be negotiated behind closed doors: there's too
much at stake. Secrecy is only increasing people's fears, and the belief
that the negotiations aren't taking sufficient account of the public
interest."

Professor David Fewer, Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic
(CIPPIC), University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
"We're looking for the Canadian government to show leadership in
introducing transparency and responsible consumer consultation to ACTA
discussions."

Professor Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and
e-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
ACTA has raised concerns for millions of citizens around the world. 
The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy and ensure that the future
negotiations occur in an open and transparent environment.

Heeseob Nam, IP Left, Seoul, Korea
"ACTA is another name for "kicking away the ladder" with which the
industrialised nations climbed to the top. During the debate of Patent
Act of 1790, Richard Wells argued that Americans should not be deprived
of the advantage of imitating any of the English invention. This
argument prevailed in the U.S. House, and the importation of patents
became prohibited. This policy objective was invigorated by
discrimination against foreign inventors in the US, and the statute
lasted for about 70 years after 1793."

Gwen Hinze, International Policy Director, Electronic Frontier
Foundation, San Francisco, CA, USA
"Despite its potentially harmful impact on consumers' privacy and free
expression, and on Internet innovation, the citizens that stand to be
directly affected by ACTA's provisions have been given almost no
information about its contents. A leaked document includes new legal
regimes to "encourage ISPs to cooperate with right holders", criminal
measures, and increased border search powers, all of which raise
considerable concern for citizens' civil liberties. Given the expedited
timeframe in which it is being negotiated, citizens deserve to see the
full text of ACTA now, so that they can evaluate its impact on their
lives."

James Love, Director, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), Washington,
DC, USA
"Counterfeiting, properly defined, is a serious problem.  Why the top
secret negotiating approach for this treaty?  The USTR won't even give
us the agendas of the meetings or the names of the negotiators, or the
proposed texts  -- stuff that is normally transparent.  I think the
answer is the bogus use of an emotive term, counterfeiting, to push an
unbalanced IP enforcement agenda, without any attention to civil or
consumer rights.  Unfortunately, there is bipartisan support for this
assault on openness and transparency. Little wonder most people don't
trust governments these days.  Why should they?" 

Sherwin Siy, Staff Attorney and Director of Global Knowledge Initiative,
Public Knowledge, Washington, DC, USA
It's incredible that such a significant document on such vital issues
can move forward when virtually nothing is known or shared about its
actual contents. If we are going to have international agreements on
matters so essential to the exchange of speech, information, and
knowledge, these agreements cannot be made in secret.

-- 

September 15, 2008

Dear Minister,
Re: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Negotiations

We are writing to urge the negotiators of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
Agreement (ACTA) to immediately publish the draft text of the agreement,
as well as pre-draft discussion papers (especially for portions for
which no draft text yet exists), before continuing further discussions
over the treaty. We ask also that you publish the agenda for negotiating
sessions and treaty-related meetings in advance of such meetings, and
publish a list of participants in the negotiations.

There is no legitimate rationale to keep the treaty text secret, and
manifold reasons for immediate publication.

The trade in products intended to deceive consumers as to who made them
poses important but complicated public policy issues. An overbroad or
poorly drafted international instrument on counterfeiting could have
very harmful consequences. Based on news reports and published material
from various business associations, we are deeply concerned about
matters such as whether the treaty will:

* Require Internet Service Providers to monitor all consumers' Internet
communications, terminate their customers' Internet connections based on
rights holders' repeat allegation of copyright infringement, and divulge
the identity of alleged copyright infringers possibly without judicial
process, threatening Internet users' due process and privacy rights; and
potentially make ISPs liable for their end users' alleged infringing
activity;

* Interfere with fair use of copyrighted materials;

* Criminalize peer-to-peer file sharing;

* Interfere with legitimate parallel trade in goods, including the
resale of brand-name pharmaceutical products;

* Impose liability on manufacturers of active pharmaceutical ingredients
(APIs), if those APIs are used to make counterfeits -- a liability
system that may make API manufacturers reluctant to sell to legal
generic drug makers, and thereby significantly damage the functioning of
the legal generic pharmaceutical industry;

* Improperly criminalize acts not done for commercial purpose and with
no public health consequences; and

* Improperly divert public resources into enforcement of private rights.

Because the text of the treaty and relevant discussion documents remain
secret, the public has no way of assessing whether and to what extent
these and related concerns are merited.

Equally, because the treaty text and relevant discussion documents
remain secret, treaty negotiators are denied the insights and
perspectives that public interest organizations and individuals could
offer. Public review of the texts and a meaningful ability to comment
would, among other benefits, help prevent unanticipated pernicious
problems arising from the treaty. Such unforeseen outcomes are not
unlikely, given the complexity of the issues involved.

The lack of transparency in negotiations of an agreement that will
affect the fundamental rights of citizens of the world is fundamentally
undemocratic. It is made worse by the public perception that lobbyists
from the music, film, software, video games, luxury goods and
pharmaceutical industries have had ready access to the ACTA text and
pre-text discussion documents through long-standing communication
channels.

The G8's recent Declaration on the World Economy implored negotiators to
conclude ACTA negotiations this year. The speed of the negotiations
makes it imperative that relevant text and documents be made available
to the citizens of the world immediately.

We look forward to your response, and to working with you toward
resolution of our concerns.

Sincerely,

Essential Action
c/o Robert Weissman, Director
P.O. Box 19405
Washington, DC, USA 20036
Tel +1 (202) 387-8030
Fax +1 (202) 234-5176

Act Up East Bay
Oakland, CA, USA

Act Up Paris
Paris, France

African Underprivileged Children's Foundation (AUCF)
Lagos, Nigeria

AIDS Access Foundation
Thailand

AIDS Healthcare Foundation
Los Angeles, CA, USA

AIDS Treatment News
Philadelphia, PA, USA

American Medical Student Association
Reston, VA, USA

AIS Colombia 
Bogotá, Colombia

ASEED Europe
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (APN+)

Australian Digital Alliance
Kingston, Australia

Australian National University
Canberra, Australia

Australian Privacy Foundation
Sydney, Australia

Bharatiya Krishakn Samaj 
New Delhi, India

BUKO Pharma-Kampagne
Bielefeld, Germany 

The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Toronto, Canada

The Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest
Clinic (CIPPIC)
University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
Ottawa, Canada

The Canadian Library Association
Ottawa, Canada

The Canadian Treatment Action Council 
Toronto, Canada

Center for Democracy and Technology
Washington, DC, USA

Center for Digital Democracy
Washington, DC, USA

Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH)
San Francisco, CA, USA

Centre for Safety & Rational Use of Indian Systems of Medicine
Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine & Sciences
Aligarh, India

The Center for Women's Culture & Theory
Korea

Chinese Domain Name User Alliance
Beijing, China

Christian Media Network
Korea

CHOICE (Australian Consumers Association)
Marrickville, Australia

Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP)
New York, NY, USA

Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
Cape Town, South Africa

Consumentenbond
The Hague, Netherlands

Consumer Action
San Francisco, CA, USA

Consumer Federation of America
Washington, DC, USA

Consumers Union (Publisher of Consumer Reports)
Yonkers, NY, USA

Consumers Union of Japan (Nihon Shohisha Renmei)
Tokyo, Japan

La Corporacion Opcion por el Derecho a Ser y el Deber de Hacer, NIT
Bogotá, Colombia 

Corporate Europe Observatory
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Cultural Action
Korea

Diverse Women for Diversity (DWD) 
New Delhi, India

Drug Study Group (DSG)
Thailand

Ecologist Collective (Colectivo ecologista Jalisco A.C.)
Guadalajara, México

Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
Cairo, Egypt

Electronic Frontier Foundation
San Francisco, CA, USA

Electronic Frontiers Australia
Adelaide, Australia

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Washington, DC, USA

European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG)
Brussels, Belgium

Foreign Policy in Focus
Institute for Policy Studies
Washington, DC, USA

Foundation for Integrative AIDS Research (FIAR)
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Fundación Ifarma
Bogotá, Colombia

Foundation For Consumers (FFC) 
Thailand

Foundation for Media Alternatives
Philippines

Foundation for Research in Science Technology & Ecology (RFSTE)
India

Free Press
Washington, DC, USA

FTA Watch
Thailand

Global AIDS Alliance
Washington, DC USA

Global Health through Education, Training & Service (GHETS)
Attleborough, MA, USA

Global Trade Watch
Washington, DC, USA

Gram Bharati Samiti Society for Rural Development
Amber, India

Gyeonggi NGO Network
Korea

Health Action International (HAI)  Africa
Nairobi, Kenya

Health Action International (HAI)  Asia Pacific
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Health Action International (HAI)  Europe
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Health Action International (HAI)  Global
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Health Action International  Latin America & Caribbean 
Lima, Perú

Health GAP (Global Access Project)
Philadelphia, PA, USA

HealthWrights (Workgroup for Peoples Health and Rights)
Palo Alto, CA, USA

Healthy Skepticism Inc.
Adelaide, Australia

Home Recording Rights Coalition
Washington, DC, USA

INEGroup 
Atlanta, GA, USA

Information & Culture Nuri for the Disabled
Korea

Initiative For Health Equity & Society (IHES)
New Delhi, India

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
The Hague, Netherlands

International Peoples Health Council (South Asia)

Intersect Worldwide
India, South Africa and USA

IP Justice
San Francisco, CA, USA

IPLeft
Seoul, Korea

Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
Geneva, Switzerland, London, UK and Washington, DC, USA

Korean Progressive Network Jinbonet
Seoul, Korea

Labour, Health and Human Rights Development Centre
Lagos, Nigeria

Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit
India

Medsin-UK

Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders)
Campaign for Essential Medicines
Geneva, Switzerland

Media Access Project
Washington, DC, USA

La Mesa de ONGs Con Trabajo en VIH/SIDA 
Bogotá, Colombia

Misión Salud 
Bogotá, Colombia

National Consumer Council (NCC)
London, UK

National Working Group on Patent Laws
New Delhi, India

Navdanya
New Delhi, India

Netzwerk Freies Wissen
Berlin, Germany

Paradise Hospital
Port Moresby, Papau New Guinea

People's Coalition for Media Reform
Seoul, Korea

Phasuma Consultancy & Training
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Positive Malaysian Treatment Access & Advocacy Group (MTAAG+).
Malaysia

Privacy Activism
USA

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
San Diego, CA, USA

Public Knowledge
Washington, DC, USA

Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN)
Kathmandu, Nepal

Social movement to combat private media ownership and enhance public
media
Korea

Student Global AIDS Campaign
USA

Swisslinux.org
Mayens-de-Chamoson, Switzerland

The Transparency and Accountability Network
New York, NY, USA

Third World Network
Malaysia

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM)
UK, USA

U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)
Washington, DC, USA

Women & Health ! (WAH ! )
India

**Individuals**

Jamie Acosta, PhD, LCSW, CHES
Miami, FL, USA

Mr. Jose L. Aguilar
Justice and Peace Commission
Mexico City, Mexico

Beate Amler
Trade Union Researcher
Berlin, Germany

Professor Brook K. Baker
Northeastern University School of Law
Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy
Boston, MA, USA

Gladys Baldew
Public Health Consultant
Netherlands

Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven, MD
Asylum Hill Family Practice Center
Hartford, CT, USA

Murtala Bello
Pharmacist, Ministry of Health
Sokoto, Nigeria

Jennifer Bruenger
Reference Librarian & Education Program Coordinator
Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology
Mission, KS, USA

Erin Burns
Former National Organizer, Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC)
Jacksonville, FL, USA

Sylvia Caras, PhD 
Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Ramon Certeza
Director for Education, Research and Industrial Relations
Confederation of Labor and Allied Social Services (CLASS)
Manila, Philippines

Sae-Rom Chae
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA

Jeff Chester
Executive Director
Center for Digital Democracy
Washington, DC, USA

Don Christie
President
New Zealand Open Source Society

Mark R. Costa
Clay, NY, USA

Chris Curry
MD/PhD Candidate
Loyola University Chicago
Forest Park, IL, USA

Dr Gopal Dabade
President,
Drug Action Forum - Karnataka
Dharwad, India 

Anke Dahrendorf, LLM
Junior Researcher, International and European Law
University of Maastricht, The Netherlands

Daniel de Beer, PhD
Lecturer in Law 
Université Saint Louis
Brussels, Belgium

Dr. Gilles de Wildt
Jiggins Lane Medical Centre
Birmingham, UK

John Dillon
Program Coordinator
KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives
Toronto, Canada

Dr. David Egilman, MD, MPH
Clinical Associate Professor
Brown University
Attleboro, MA, USA

Professor Peter Evans
Department of Sociology
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Thomas Alured Faunce
Assoc. Professor, College of Law
Assoc. Professor, Medical School, College of Medicine and Health
Sciences
Australian National University
Canberra, Australia

Professor Brian Fitzgerald
Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation
Law Faculty
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, Australia

Professor Sean Flynn
Associate Director
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
American University Washington College of Law
Washington DC, USA

Maurice J. Freedman
Past President, American Library Association
Mount Kisco, NY, USA

Michael Geist
Canada Research Chair in Internet and e-commerce Law
University of Ottawa, Canada

Jonathan Walter Giehl
Ocala, Florida, USA

Johnny Jesus Guaylupo
PLWHA
Brooklyn, NY, USA

Dr. Chandra M. Gulhati
Editor, Monthly Index of Medical Specialities (MIMS)
New Delhi, India

Mark W. Heffington, MD
Cashiers, NC, USA

Matthew Herder
Visiting Professor of Law
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA

Maggie Huff-Rousselle
Chair, Pharmaceuticals Interest Working Group
American Public Health Association
Boston, MA, USA

Doug Ireland,
Journalist
New York, NY, USA

Professor S. Jayasundar, PhD 
Pharmacology
Chennai, India

Dr. K.R. John
Dept. of Community Health
Christian Medical College
Vellore, India

Puja Kapai
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Law
The University of Hong Kong

Alison Katz
Peoples Health Movement and Centre Europe Tiers Monde
Geneva, Switzerland

Niyada Kiatying-Angsulee, Ph.D.
Chair, Social Pharmacy Research Unit (SPR)
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand

Professor Heinz Klug
University of Wisconsin Law School
Madison, WI, USA
Senior Honorary Research Associate, University of the Witwatersrand 
Johannesburg, South Africa

Adam M. Kost
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA

Professor Joel Lexchin, MD
York University
Toronto, Canada

Jiraporn Limpananont, PhD
Social Pharmacy Research Unit
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand

Nicholas J. Lusiani
International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
ESCR-Net / Red-DESC / Réseau-DESC
New York, NY, USA

Hamish MacEwan
Open ICT Consultant
Wellington, New Zealand

Dr. Duncan Matthews
Reader in Intellectual Property Law
School of Law
Queen Mary, University of London
United Kingdom

Eduardo Mayorga
ALAFAR (Ecuadorian Generic Pharmaceutical Association)
Quito, Ecuador

Dr. Jeni McAughey
Whitehead, Northern Ireland

Prof. David Menkes
Waikato Clinical School
University of Auckland
Hamilton, New Zealand

Mr. T. Mikindo, B.Pharms, MSc
Pharmacist
Ifakara Health Institute
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Adrienne Mishkin
Tulane University School of Medicine and School of Public Health and
Tropical Medicine MD/MPH candidate, Class of 2009
New Orleans, LA, USA

Isameldin M.A. Mustafa, B.Pharm
The Director of Pharmaceutical Services Department
National Health Insurance Fund
Khartoum, Sudan

Ibraheem Naeem
Medical student
Lahore, Pakistan

Dr. Pat Neuwelt
Public Health Physician and Professor
Mt. Albert, Auckland, New Zealand

Ahti Otala
Espoo, Finland

Frank Ottey 
Media, PA, USA

Kevin Outterson
Associate Professor of Law & Director of the Health Law Program
Boston University School of Law
Boston, MA, USA

Dr. Carol Parlow
Oakville, Canada

Dr. Peter Parry
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
Senior Lecturer, Flinders University
Oaklands Pk, Australia  

Ngufor Forkum Polycarp, BA, MEd, MA, DEA, Dip-ENSP, LLM 
Human Rights Training Unit
Police Training School
Yaounde, Cameroon

Joana Ramos, MSW
Cancer Resources & Advocacy
Seattle, WA, USA

Nicolas Rasmussen, MPhil, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia

Dr. Amitrajit Saha
New Delhi, India

A. Sankar
Executive Director
EMPOWER
Tuticorin, India

Dr. Canan Sargin, MD 
UNICEF
Ankara, Turkey

Dr. Gordon Schiff
Associate Director, Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice
Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

Claudio Schuftan, MD
Peoples Health Movement Vietnam

Professor Susan K. Sell
George Washington University
Washington, DC USA

Melissa Serrano
Researcher
University of the Phillippines
Manila, Philippines

Aaron Shaw
Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Dr. Mira Shiva, MD
Coordinator, Initiative for Health, Equity and Society
Founding Member, People's Health Movement
New Delhi, India

Dr. Vandana Shiva 
Navdanya
New Delhi, India

Beverley Snell
Essential Medicines and Community Health Specialist
Centre for International Health
Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health
Melbourne, Australia

Wilma Teran
Pharmaceutical Biochemist, Public Health
Platform on Access to Medicines and Intellectual Property
La Paz, Bolivia

Clinton Henry Trout, MPH
Candidate for Doctor of Public Health
Boston University
Boston, MA, USA

Karolina Tuomisto
Medical Student
Helsinki, Finland

Mike Waghorne
Retired
Former Assistant General Secretary
Public Services International
Esquibien, France

Richard Walther
Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Professor Kimberlee Weatherall
TC Beirne School of Law
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia

Patricia Whelehan, PhD
Professor, Anthropology
State University of New York-Potsdam
Potsdam, NY, USA

Edlira Xhafa
Researcher
Education International
Nyon, Switzerland

Julie M. Zito, PhD
Professor, Pharmacoepidemiology
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Baltimore, MD, USA

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OPENNESS IN TRADE AND OTHER MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS

Negotiating texts are commonly made public in multilateral trade
negotiation, although some trade negotiations are characterized by
secrecy.

Examples of negotiations where texts are or were made public include:

* The current Doha Round negotiations at the World Trade Organization;

http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dda_e/dda_e.htm

* The Free Trade Area of the Americas;

http://www.ftaa-alca.org/FTAADraft03/Index_e.asp

* The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (although initial texts were
not made public)

http://www.oecd.org/document/35/0,3343,en_2649_33783766_1894819_1_1_1_1,00.html

* Draft text at the World Health Organization, where resolutions are
published in advance of consideration and treaty or treaty-like
negotiations are handled openly, including this example of follow-on
negotiations for the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control:

http://www.who.int/gb/fctc/

* The World Intellectual Property Organization, including this example
of a draft Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations:

http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=57213

---

Sarah Rimmington
Attorney
Essential Action, Access to Medicines Project
Washington, DC
Tel: (202) 387-8030
Cell: (202) 422-2687
www.essentialaction.org/access/

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