Activities & Events

Activities organised by IELRC

Water Rights, Equity and Water Law Reforms in India

The International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC) organised a consultation on Water Rights, Equity and Water Law Reforms in India on 19 April 2008.

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Legal Aspects of Water Sector Reforms

The International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC) organised a workshop on Legal Aspects of Water Sector Reforms in Geneva on 20-21 April 2007.

For more information about this, please visit our dedicated website

Water, Law and the Commons

The International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC) organised a workshop on Water, Law and the Commons in Delhi from 8 to 10 December 2006.

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Liability @ COP/MOP1 in Kuala Lumpur

The International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC) organised with the support of the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscapes (SAEFL) two side-events on liability and redress at the first Conference of the Parties / Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in February 2004.

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Liability and Redress under the Cartagena Protocol

The International Environmental Law Research Centre (Kenya) and the Biosafety Interdisciplinary Network (RIBios) of the University of Geneva hosted a Workshop on Liability and Redress under the Cartagena Protocol in Mombasa from 22 to 26 September 2003 with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

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Conference on Access to Justice

Stanford University (USA), June 1998.

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Other Activities

Apart from the conferences, seminars and events we organise, IELRC researchers have also been called upon all around the world to make presentations and specific contributions in various forums. The following is a partial list of these activities:

Intellectual Property and Economic Partnership Agreements: Negotiating Options and Prospects for Development in ACP Regions
Download the presentations made by Dr Cullet on plant variety and his presentation on traditional knowledge

14-15 May 2007, Capacity Building in Support of the Preparation of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA), ACP Secretariat, Brussels

Conference on Land, Memory, Reconstruction and Justice:
Perspectives on Land Restitution in South Africa:
Keynote Speech: Righting Wrongs - Confronting Dispossession in Post-Colonial Contexts

13-15 September 2006, Houw Hoek Inn, Cape Town [ Download the presentation made by Prof. Kameri-Mbote ]

Biosafety Forum on Liability and Redress:
Keynote presentation by Dr Cullet on the development of liability and redress rules at national and international levels

Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Kuala Lumpur, 29 August 2006

Water & Global Security:
Integrating Environmental Peacemaking in the Reforms of the United Nations
Side-event at the Commission on Sustainable Development

22 April 2005, Conference Room 2, 1:15pm - 2:45pm, UN Headquarter [ more info ]

Access to Justice by Disadvantaged Groups

Dr Muralidhar made a presentation at the Expert Seminar on Democracy and the Rule of Law, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva 28 February-2 March 2005.

Dr Cullet's presentation at the Discussion Panel - Book Launch on " Whose Rules of the Game?  Bioprospecting and Drug Research in Developing Countries" UNU Institute for New Technologies/ International Commission on Trade and Sustainable Development

Conference Room 5, United Nations, New York, 19 April 2005 [ more info ]

Twenty years after the Bhopal disaster
A conference co-organised with SOAS, London, 23 October 2004 [ more info ]

758th Wilton Park conference on Environment, Development & Sustainable Peace: Finding Paths to Environmental Peace making
16-19 September 2004, Wilton Park (UK)

Presentation entitled: Stakeholder Discourse in the Nile Basin

Download the presentation made by Dr Kameri-Mbote

European Patent Office Annual Member States Meeting;
Panel Discussion on the Report of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Prague, 12 July 2004.

Keynote presentation entitled "Integrating IPRs and Development Policy"

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Keynote presentation and debate with Commerce Minister Weerawit Weeraworarit at "‘A Dialogue on Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy"
Thai-UK IP Law week organised by the British Council, February 2003.

Stakholders Dialogue – Great Lakes, September 2004

Presentation entitled: Environment & Conflict Linkages: An Overview

Download the presentation made by Dr Kameri-Mbote

Participation and co-organisation of environmental law research seminars at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 2001-2003. [ more info ]

Dr Cullet's expert submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the Indian Parliament on the Patents (Amendment) Bill, September 2001.