Cultural Intellectual Property Rights are Human Rights - the theme of a decade! On 26 April 2026, the Cultural Intellectual Property Rights Initiative® (CIPRI) celebrated its 8 year anniversary. For the past 5 years during the month of April, the CIPRI Core Team facilitated the Cultural Intellectual Property Month, focused on the theme of a decade: Cultural Intellectual Property Rights are Human Rights. This year marks the halfway point of amplifying this theme as a contribu

While the majority of the CIPRI Core Team are on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lands in Australia during this Cultural IP Month, we would like to acknowledge the worldview of Caring for Country. Text prepared by prepared by Nicole Crouch and Monica Boța Moisin of the CIPRI Core Team, with guidance from Patricia Adjei CF, Indigenous Australian TCE expert There are more than 200 different language groups in the mainland and the Torres Strait. Aboriginal and Torres Strai

The Cultural Intellectual Property Rights Initiative® (CIPRI) was established with a clear purpose: to contribute to building a system that nurtures, sustains and protects Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Traditional Cultural Expressions (TCEs) and to support the recognition of the rights of Indigenous Peoples, Ethnic Groups and Local Communities as custodians of these knowledge systems. CIPRI and our network practice CARE by creating spaces and being involved in conversations