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The WTO TRIPS Council meets on 13 and 14 October in Geneva. The G20 meets in Rome on 30 and 31 October. Let us use these dates to raise the demand for the lifting of patents, for technology transfers, for universal, immediate and free vaccination, built with the populations, especially the (...)
The Progressive International has called for speeding up Covid vaccination by removing patents and transferring free-of-cost technology to produce vaccines across the world.
The call was made at an online summit of the forum that works to unite progressive forces across the world. The (...)
According to the NGO Oxfam, at the current rate of progress, it will take 60 years for the poorest countries to sufficiently vaccinate their population against Covid-19. Only 2% of Africans have received at least one dose of vaccine, compared to more than 45% of the French, 61% of the British (...)
The world desperately needs the TRIPS waiver and stronger measures to ensure the transfer of knowledge and technology to produce Covid-19 vaccines.
The Biden administration’s decision to stop opposing a proposed Covid-19 waiver of certain intellectual-property rights under World Trade (...)
The arrival of effective vaccines against Covid-19 provides hope that the pandemic that has infected over 100 million people and killed over 2.5 million can be brought under control. But that will not happen while much of the world’s population remains unvaccinated. In largely unvaccinated (...)
Countries that insist on cremation of those dying with Covid-19 risk alienating Moslem and Christian citizens.
With different views being expressed on the debate of cremation versus burial of those who die of COVID-19, the Sunday Times sought the expert opinion of Prof. Malik Peiris, (...)
Just as nowhere is immune to the effects of climate change, so the Covid-19 pandemic exempts no one, rich or poor, head of state or refugee. But these global crises do not affect everyone in the same way. Vulnerability to the pandemic is linked to risk factors, including age, and its (...)
The WTO must help sway the planet away from monopoly medicine – the lives of millions of people are on the line.
We know how to end this pandemic. Our politicians may be sending mixed signals, but the science is clear: we need diagnostics to track the virus, medicines to treat the virus, (...)
As the second decade of 21st century is coming to a close, we are witnessing a world engulfed in an unprecedented crisis at all levels, from economic calamities, apparently triggered by Covid-19, to social explosions raging in every continent and wars in the middle east and other parts of the (...)
CONSIDER THE following thought experiment. If you fail to eat a pizza within an hour, you will die from hunger. What do you do ? Most people would immediately order a pizza—and not just one Margherita, but lots of them, from several different parlours. In order to maximise the chances that at (...)
Filipino medics plead for lockdown as health system teeters; US suffers deadliest month; South Korea arrest sect leader.
Senior doctors in the Philippines have pleaded with the government to impose a strict lockdown in the capital Manila or risk losing the battle to contain the spread of (...)
The countries that Trump, Bolsonaro and Modi, respectively, rule, are currently #1, 2, and 3 in the total number of coronavirus infections. Credible projections by some scientists suggest that India is poised to become #1 within a few months. Whether that happens or not, it is more than likely (...)
A new book offers snapshots of struggles and intimate stories about life during the pandemic from across the globe, reminding us who we really are.
We are often taught to fear other human beings, that some anonymous stranger is going to steal our food, money or valuables. Yet the global (...)
The world is not experiencing a second wave: it never got over the first.
IT IS ASTONISHING how rapidly the pandemic has spread, despite all the efforts to stop it. On February 1st, the day covid-19 first appeared on our front cover, the World Health Organisation counted 2,115 new cases. On (...)
We were already on the way to variations of Fortress World before COVID-19: right-wing, authoritarian/fascist regimes have been able to capture political power riding on the immiseration, anxieties, and frustration resulting from global capitalism and corporate globalization, while progressive (...)
Neoliberalism has driven the the world system into a cul-de-sac. The Global South must lead in building a new international economic order
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In 1974, the United Nations General Assembly passed a (...)
May 11 marked two months since WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Many of us long for a return to the routine. Here we argue against this longing.
It is not easy to speak about this virus from a universal point of view since it is not easy to find a common denominator. Take the (...)
In late March, Boris Johnson pronounced, “One thing I think the coronavirus crisis has already proved is that there really is such a thing as society.” He was celebrating the return to service of 20,000 workers from the public health system (NHS), along with the 750,000 “NHS volunteers,” (...)
On the eve of May Day 2020, in full coronavirus pandemic, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) released some hair raising statistics. About 1.6 billion workers from the informal sector are in dire straits because of the lockdowns governments have imposed to stop the spread of the virus. (...)
To neoliberal states, the pandemic is a racialized security threat and a market opportunity. Our fight is for the right to breathe — in every sense.
Ruling elites are pursuing the convergence of two dreams in their response to COVID-19 : a state dream and a market dream. The state dream (...)
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