Intellectual Property, Human Rights and Development: The Role of NGOs and Social Movements

by Duncan Matthews

This insightful and important new book explores the role played by non-governmental-organizations (NGOs) in articulating concerns at the TRIPS Council, the WIPO, the WHO, the CBD-COP and the FAO that intellectual property rights can have negative consequences for developing countries. Duncan Matthews describes how coalitions of international NGOs have influenced the way that the relationship between intellectual property rights and development is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847207855
• ISBN13: 9781847207852
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages