WIPO Budget Committee Concludes Without Agreement on Indigenous Participation Funding

By Andres Izquierdo, Counsel, PIJIP, American University At the close of WIPO’s 39th Program and Budget Committee (PBC) session, a modest yet symbolically significant proposal—to allocate regular budget funds, on an exceptional basis, to support the participation of Indigenous Peoples in sessions of the Intergovernmental Committee (IGC)—was withdrawn. Despite wide cross-regional support and a week […]