A new Declaration for the Future of the Internet
Meanwhile, Internet freedom declined for the fifth time in a row in the U.S., and for the 11th consecutive year globally, according to Freedom House
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Governments must break Big Pharma-WTO stranglehold on access to medicine
Responding to the recent 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) of the World Trade Organization (WTO), nearly 300 civil society organizations from around the world issued the following call on governments to break the “Big Pharma-WTO stranglehold on access to medicine”.
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Canada delivered only 3.2m of the 40m COVID-19 doses it pledged to poor countries
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a supposedly caring and compassionate "world leader", has so far delivered only 3.2 million (8%) of the 40 million life-saving COVID-19 doses Canada pledged to Africa and other poor regions of the Global South with overwhelming BIPOC (Black people, Indigenous people, People of Colour) majorities, according to a damning report released this week by the People’s Vaccine Alliance.
READ MORECOVID-19 vaccines donated in 2022 “will be far too late for those who are dying today”: WHO chief
Life-saving COVID-19 vaccines donated in 2022, instead of this year, “will be far too late” for millions of people “who are dying today, or being infected today, or at risk today” in the low- and middle-income countries of the Global South, says WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
READ MOREUN experts to G7: Access to COVID-19 vaccines in the Global South must outweigh profits for pandemic profiteering Big Pharma
Prioritize immediate access to life-saving COVID-19 vaccines for “billions” of people in the Global South over obscene profits for pandemic profiteering Big Pharma, UN human rights experts tell the leaders of the world’s largest economies ahead of this weekend's G7 summit in the UK.
READ MOREThe West must start treating vaccines as a global public good – before it’s too late
"It is not surprising, therefore, that there is now a vast global coalition of NGOs, states and UN agencies that favour the recognition of vaccines (and health in general) as a public good and not a business, and the consequent temporary suspension of patent rights."
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