Legal resources

International Resources

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
• International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

The Right to Self Determination

• Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
• General Assembly resolution 1803 (XVII) of 14 December 1962, Permanent sovereignty over natural resources

Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Minorities

• Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
• Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169)

Regional / Local Law and Agreements

• European Convention on Human Rights
• Alien Tort Claims Act

IP in Biodiversity

Africa General

• WIPO – African Model Legislation for Protection of Rights of Local Communities, Farmers and Breeders, and for the regulation of Access to Biological Resources

South Africa

• South African National Environmental Management – Biodiversity Act 2004
• South African National Environmental Management – Regulations of Bio-Prospecting, Access and Benefit Sharing
• South African Patents Amendment Act No. 20 of 2005

Kenya

• Kenyan Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act – Conservation of Biological Diversity and Resources, Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing 2006

Uganda

• Ugandan National Environment Statute, 1995
• Ugandan National Environment (Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing) Regulations, 2005