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The Cali Fund needs scrutiny, but so does the claim of contributor control.
Manu Caddie is an inaugural member of the Cali Fund Steering Committee, representing the Pacific region, here he writes in his role as an occasional policy advisor for Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust. The following version of this post has been updated from the original (31/8/26) based on additional information contained in a longer piece published … Continue reading The Cali Fund needs scrutiny, but so does the claim of contributor control.
Assessing Third World Network’s Critique of the CBD Database Study
Manu Caddie is a member of the inaugural Steering Committee for the Multilateral Mechanism for the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits from the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources, including the Cali Fund, representing Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the Pacific region. This post is a revised version of an earlier … Continue reading Assessing Third World Network’s Critique of the CBD Database Study
Developed, Dropped, Disclosed: The Discussion Document That Never Saw Daylight, Until Now
Manu Caddie is a policy advisor for Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust and submitted this piece for publication to celebrate release of a government document that was politically too hot for the Coalition Government. After months of trying, bring denied initially, challenging the official decision and going through the Office of the Ombudsman to request a … Continue reading Developed, Dropped, Disclosed: The Discussion Document That Never Saw Daylight, Until Now
Webinar: The Lake That’s A Legal Person
8.00AM (NZT) FRIDAY 24 APRIL – register here via MS Teams Pemadashdakota (Rice Lake) is the first body of water in Ontario to receive this status, and the second in Canada after Quebec’s Magpie River set the precedent as it was granted legal personhood in 2021. We’re honoured to host Chief Taynar Simpson of Alderville … Continue reading Webinar: The Lake That’s A Legal Person