ESCR-Net – International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights submitted an urgent appeal to the Special Procedures of the United Nations (UN), the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, to urge States, business actors and the World Trade Organization (WTO) to comply with their obligations under international human rights law to enable universal and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. “Urgent universal and equitable global access to COVID vaccines is a human right and a public health imperative requiring States, the pharmaceutical sector and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to abide by their obligations to overcome information monopolies, such as those created by vaccine patents,” highlights the 63-page appeal.
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