Thesis, Report, Essay, Forum, Meeting 

• The Fourth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues : Report of the workshop on Methodologies regarding Free Prior and Informed Consent and Indigenous Peoples (New York, January 17-19, 2005)

• Press Release PR/2004/388:WIPO Director General Welcomes Growing Recognition of Indigenous People’s Rights. (Geneva, August 9, 2004)

• "Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity: Process and Synergies", by Manuel Ruiz, David Vivas-Eugui and Maria Fernanada Espinosa (ICTSD and IUCN, September 2003).

• Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO (Thirty-Ninth Series of Meetings) Geneva, September 22 to October 1, 2003.

• 52 Documents--Seventh Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity(9 - 20 February 2004 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) and the Third meeting on the Ad Hoc Open-ended Inter-sessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity. (8 - 12 December 2003 - Montreal, Canada)

• This International Forum on “Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge: Our Identity, Our Future” which is held under the Patronage of His Highness Sayyid Faisal Bin Ali Al Said is being organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Government of the Sultanate of Oman.  Participation will be at the ministerial level, namely the Ministers responsible for culture and/or intellectual property matters. (DOCUMENTS OF THIS FORUM and RELATED DOCUMENTS, Muscat, January 21 and 22, 2002)