Submission on CESCR Draft General Comment, February 2020
Comments by the South Centre on the CESCR Draft General Comment on science and economic, social and cultural rights Art. 15: 15.1.b, 15.2, 15.3 and 15.4
The South Centre welcomes the opportunity to submit its comments on the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Right (CESCR) Draft General Comment on science and economic, social and cultural rights Art. 15: 15.1.b, 15.2, 15.3 and 15.4 and commends the Secretariat of the CESCR for this initiative. We recognize the paramount importance of the ESCR and of Art. 15, which is a crucial element to ensuring other rights and the development of all countries. We further acknowledge and reinforce the importance of the draft text to address multiple emerging and long-established issues, such as the risks and promises of the 4th Industrial Revolution and the relation of science and the right to food as two examples.
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This article was tagged: Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS), Access to Knowledge, Conflict of Interest, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Fourth Industrial Revolution, Genetic Resources, Intellectual Property, Nagoya Protocol, Traditional Knowledge, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), World Trade Organization (WTO)