Discussions > What is the best way to have the UN Guidelines amended?
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Jeremy Malcolm
71 days ago |
Three alternate scenarios for how the amendments to the Guidelines could be advanced within the UN system:
- Directly by UNCTAD, the UN body that is responsible for consumer protection. UNCTAD does have an office working on Technology Transfer & Intellectual Property, and could form its own Expert Meeting to review the Guidelines. CI plans to raise this informally at a preparatory civil society hearing for UNCTAD XIII in 2012, and again at the meeting itself in April. If taken up, the amendments could be finalised at UNCTAD XIV in 2016.
- Through UNESCO, which is the UN body that is largely responsible for access to knowledge, and which could take the lead in organising an intergovernmental conference to settle the amendments, as ECOSOC's CSD (Commission on Sustainable Development) did for the sustainable consumption amendments. This could be raised at the ECOSOC NGO International Conference in December 2012, and taken up at the General Conference in December 2013.
- Through ECOSOC's CSTD (Commission on Science and Technology for Development), for which UNCTAD is the Secretariat. This route would be more closely analogous to that taken for the sustainable consumption amendments. However, not all of our amendments are science and technology related, so the match is not quite so obvious.
What are your opinions on the most productive route?
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