RECOMMENDATION TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES Sample Clauses

RECOMMENDATION TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. In the development of policies and practices, indigenous peoples should: 1.1 Define for themselves their own intellectual and cultural property. 1.2 Note that existing protection mechanisms are insufficient for the protection of Indigenous Peoples Intellectual and Cultural Property Rights. 1.3 Develop a code of ethics which external users must observe when recording (visual, audio, written) their traditional and customary knowledge. 1.4 Prioritise the establishment of indigenous education, research and training centers to promote their knowledge of customary environmental and cultural practices. 1.5 Reacquire traditional indigenous lands for the purpose of promoting customary agricultural production. 1.6 Develop and maintain their traditional practices and sanctions for the protection, preservation and revitalisation of their traditional intellectual and cultural properties. 1.7 Assess existing legislation with respect to the protection of antiquities. 1.8 Establish an appropriate body with appropriate mechanisms to: (a) Preserve and monitor the commercialisation or otherwise of indigenous cultural properties in the public domain. (b) Generally advise and encourage indigenous peoples to take steps to protect their cultural heritage. (c) Allow a mandatory consultative process with respect to any new legislation affecting indigenous peoples cultural and intellectual property rights. 1.9 Establish international indigenous information centres and networks. 1.10 Convene a Second International Conference (Hui) on the Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples to be hosted by the Co- ordinating Body of the Indigenous Peoples Organisations of the Amazon Basin (COICA).