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A call for the WHO not to encourage the privatisation and commercialisation of healthcare amidst a COVID-19 crisis
News / 27th May 2021On the first day of the World Health Assembly, civil society organisations have sent an open letter to the WHO critisicing the encouragment of privatisation of healthcare amidst a COVID-19 pandemic.
Rights not debts
Article / 21st May 2021The harms to human dignity caused by over-indebtedness — whether individual or public — are a consequence of unjust policies which violate human rights. Protecting rights must be a core principle of debt justice.
Our planet, our future: An urgent call for action
News / 21st May 2021Nobel Prize laureates and other experts issue urgent call for action after ‘Our Planet, Our Future’ Summit. This statement was inspired by the discussions at the 2021 Nobel Prize Summit.
Covid vaccines create 9 new billionaires with combined wealth greater than cost of vaccinating world’s poorest countries
News / 21st May 2021At least nine people have become new billionaires since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, thanks to the excessive profits pharmaceutical corporations with monopolies on COVID vaccines are making.
UN expert calls for an ambitious social Europe, says COVID must spark rethink
Blog / 7th May 2021Over 90 million people across the EU live at risk of poverty and social exclusion. Yet the Union’s current action plan doesn’t come near to the pledge of ‘no poverty’ made at the United Nations.