The following letter by a broad coalition of NGOs signed this Open Letter about DSI, that was send to the Executive Secretary of the CBD, the Co-Chairs of the Open-Ended Working Group on DSI, and to the Parties.
We document this Open Letter, that was initiated by Third World Network, and that was signed by 65 civil society organisations.
We, the undersigned civil society organisations, write this letter to express our profound
concerns regarding the negotiations in the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on
Benefit-sharing from the Use of Digital Sequence Information (DSI) on Genetic Resources,
and in particular regarding the proposed elements for the draft recommendation as contained
in the Annex of document CBD/WGDSI/2/2.