Category Human Rights

COVID-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.

Obert Madondo
June 23, 2021

UN 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.

Obert Madondo
June 10, 2021

The 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."

The Canadian Progressive
April 29, 2021

Derek Chauvin convicted for brutal murder of George Floyd

This week, the most consequential trial in this historic era of the Black Lives Matter civil rights movement culminated in a rare guilty verdict. A Minneapolis jury found Derek Chauvin, a white man and former police officer, guilty of the May 2020 brutal, daylight lynching of George Floyd, a Black American man.

Obert Madondo
April 25, 2021