UAEM mentioned in Intellectual Property Watch article on Berkeley Declaration

Article on UN agencies discussing intellectual property (IP) and Access to Medinces (A2M) and a mention of Berkeley Declaration coming from meeting UAEM advisory board member Amy Kapczynski organized on enforcement agenda at Berkeley.

"Separately, on 15 June, a number of civil society organisations such as the Open Society Institute, Médecins Sans Frontières, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, the Third World Network, and Health Action International Africa released the “Berkeley Declaration on Intellectual Property Enforcement and Access to Medicines.” Timed to be issued just before the symposium, the declaration warns about “the recent IP enforcement agenda” promoted in different fora, such as the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations, bilateral and regional free trade agreements negotiations with the European Union, the World Customs Organization SECURE project, and the WHO International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce (IMPACT), in which “public safety is being cynically used as a pretext to promote these initiatives.”