[WSIS CS-Plenary] Group Request for Reconsideration to WIPO on Accreditation to attend Development Agenda Meetings

[Robin Gross]

Apologies for the cross-posting, but...

WIPO has officially denied IP Justice accreditation to participate at 
the WIPO Development Agenda meetings in April because we are only 
accredited as "ad hoc" members of the WIPO Copyright Committee and NOT 
as "permanent" members of the General Assembly.

IP Justice is preparing to send WIPO a request to reconsider this policy 
and permit interested NGOs to attend.  If there are any other NGOs that 
have been denied permission to attend the WIPO meetings and would like 
to consider signing-on to a group request for reconsideration to WIPO, 
please let me know.   I believe a group statement from a number of NGOs 
denied a seat at the table will send a powerful message that the member 
country delegates can use to pressure WIPO to change this policy.

Or your NGO may want to send a separate request to WIPO, just to make a 
point about the unfairness of WIPO's exclusionary policies.  The contact 
person at WIPO to send NGO requests for accreditation is Edward Kwakwa 
<edward.kwakwa at wipo.int>

If anyone is interested in talking about this further, please let me 
know asap!

Thank you,
Robin Gross
IP Justice
robin at ipjustice.org