The trend up to now has been that the holders of this knowledge believe in mystical forms of protection, as any protection at the level of IP could result in their magic secrets becoming known. This idea, moreover, emerges from the position taken by PROMETRA, an organization whose aim is to promote traditional medicine and which acknowledges that the only form used by its practitioners is secrecy, not just because they are not familiar with IP mechanisms, but simply because none of them is disposed to reveal their treatment processes to others. Against this background, the international community has made a number of attempts to overcome this difficulty, such as the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, some rules contained in the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and the efforts made by the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore. At the regional level we can highlight the Andean Pact on a Common Regime on Access to Genetic Resources of 1996, of which Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela are members. The African Union had already produced a draft law which has been used by several countries as a source of domestic legislation on this issue. In November 2006 in Maputo, the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) in turn launched a debate on a draft “legal instrument on the protection of traditional knowledge and expressions of folklore”. Some countries have already issued domestic legislation on traditional knowledge, folklore, genetic resources and the sharing of benefits, such as Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Malawi, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Portugal, South Africa, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Recently, through its Genetic Heritage Management Council, Brazil published Resolution No. 23/2006 of 28 December 2006, which provides that: "The granting of industrial property rights by the relevant authorities, on a process or product obtained from a sample of a component of our genetic heritage, shall be conditional on the observance of this provisional measure, and applicants must indicate the origin of the genetic material and of the relevant traditional knowledge, where appropriate.”