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Global youth demand EU, UK ‘unconditionally’ back vaccine patent waiver
Blog / 21st February 2022Dozens of youth-led advocacy groups from around the world have published an open letter urging the European Union, the United Kingdom, Norway, and Switzerland to immediately end their opposition to a proposed patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines.
Pharmaceutical companies’ failure on equal vaccine access contributed to human rights catastrophe in 2021
Report / 14th February 2022Despite urgent calls to ensure the equal distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, pharmaceutical companies tragically failed to rise to the challenge of a once-in-a-century global health and human rights crisis.
Delivering a Right to Food for the UK
Article / 11th February 2022The UK currently lacks a legal mechanism for enforcing the right to food. British MPs and activists are fighting for this basic right to be enshrined into law - making the government legally responsible to help anyone who is going hungry.
Energy inequality plagues the world; US causes 585 times more climate emissions than Congo
Report / 31st January 2022An analysis by the Center for Global Development reports that the average Briton produced more carbon dioxide in the first two days of January than an average person from the Democratic Republic of Congo would in an entire year.
A new international health order is within reach
Blog / 31st January 2022To end the pandemic, we need a transformative shift away from the short-termist and profit-captive model of global health governance. And Cuba is showing the way, writes Zackie Achmat.
If Martin Luther King were alive today his radicalism wouldn’t be celebrated
Blog / 19th January 2022If MLK lived today, he would not be celebrated for staunchly opposing wealth inequality and poverty, or for his Poor People's Campaign that demanded a better life for all Americans through nonviolent protest and mutual aid.
Fully ready to kill, shockingly unprepared to save lives
Blog / 19th January 2022Just a fraction of the giant amount spent on the world's military - 2,000,000,000,000 US dollars - could meet the UN's major funding appeals for ending starvation and tackling the coronvirus pandemic, writes Baher Kamal for IPS news.
The poor die from COVID while the rich get richer, Oxfam warns
Report / 17th January 2022The coronavirus vaccine divide is costing lives and supercharging inequalities worldwide, a new report from Oxfam warns.
The people of Afghanistan are starving; to turn our backs on them is morally wrong
Blog / 14th January 2022This is the new world order revealed at its most selfish and morally defective: countries trapped in a geopolitics that puts military and economic sanctions before food for the hungry, writes Gordon Brown.
Activism will be key to overcoming the Covid-19 crisis
Blog / 7th January 2022Sharing doses alone is not enough, we also need to share the vaccine technology to end the coronavirus pandemic. But only people’s organising is going to make leaders take that bold action in 2022, writes Ben Phillips.