History
The IPCB was founded in 1999 by the current Executive Director Debra Harry, following her growing concerns over a perceived impact of genetic colonialism on the lives of indigenous peoples. The organization adopts an internationalist perspective identifying genetic variation research on isolated populations, as well as its prospective commercial exploration, as a global threat, not only to the self-determination of all indigenous peoples, but also to the non-indigenous world and to the earth itself.
In 2005 and 2006, the group protested against the National Geographic's Genographic Project (cf. criticism).
Read more about this topic: Indigenous Peoples Council On Biocolonialism
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