Apologies for the cross-posting, but... WIPO has officially denied IP Justice accreditation to participate at the WIPO Development Agenda meetings in April because we are only accredited as "ad hoc" members of the WIPO Copyright Committee and NOT as "permanent" members of the General Assembly. IP Justice is preparing to send WIPO a request to reconsider this policy and permit interested NGOs to attend. If there are any other NGOs that have been denied permission to attend the WIPO meetings and would like to consider signing-on to a group request for reconsideration to WIPO, please let me know. I believe a group statement from a number of NGOs denied a seat at the table will send a powerful message that the member country delegates can use to pressure WIPO to change this policy. Or your NGO may want to send a separate request to WIPO, just to make a point about the unfairness of WIPO's exclusionary policies. The contact person at WIPO to send NGO requests for accreditation is Edward Kwakwa <[log in to unmask]> If anyone is interested in talking about this further, please let me know asap! Thank you, Robin Gross IP Justice [log in to unmask]