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The Mataatua Declaration on Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples is released.

1993

The Story of The Patenting of Life
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It is one of many declarations made by Indigenous people around the globe demanding that the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) pause: "until its moral, ethical, socio-economic, physical and political implications have been thoroughly discussed, understood and approved by Indigenous peoples" (Working Group on Indigenous Populations, 1993).


The project will deny this demand, like many others.