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International medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) has urged rich countries to stop blocking a patent waiver plan that could boost the global production of coronavirus vaccines. Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will meet virtually for informal talks on Thursday to discuss a proposal to waive intellectual property rights for producing COVID-19 vaccines and other coronavirus-related medical tools for the duration of the pandemic. Sponsors of the ...

Copy URL IN the international climate discourse, the goal of countries embracing net zero emissions reductions by 2050 has been heralded as showing high ambition. Coming from the highest official in the United Nations, viz. the Secretary-General António Guterres himself, the general public can be forgiven into thinking that net zero emissions reductions by the world’s major ‘emitters’ will save us from a planetary climate crisis. Nothing can be further from the truth, and deeper scrutin...

Chasing Carbon Unicorns According to a new report, net zero targets many governments are pursuing are distractions from the urgent need to drastically reduce carbon emissions. iStock.com/Petmal 5 April 2021 In the past few months, many governments have announced net zero carbon emission targets. These targets update the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) at the heart of the Paris Agreement. Many private corporations, including BP and Shell, have also set net zero targets. N...

Getty Images On 30 March, 25 heads of state including South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa called for the creation of an international pandemic treaty through the World Health Organization (WHO) to strengthen global capacity to predict and respond to pandemic threats. The call was published as a commentary in newspapers across the world. Those endorsing the commentary include leaders of both developed and developing countries – such as Germany, the United Kingdom, South Korea, South Afr...

The politics and promise behind a proposed international pandemic treaty Catherine Tomlinson for Spotlight On 30 March, 25 heads of state including South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa called for the creation of an international pandemic treaty through the World Health Organization (WHO) to strengthen global capacity to predict and respond to pandemic threats. The call was published as a commentary in newspapers across the world. Those endorsing the commentary include lead...

by Vijay Prashad / April 8th, 2021 From left to right: Vijay Prashad, Fred M’membe, Diego Sequera, and Erika Farías in Caracas, 2019. Photograph taken by Yeimi Salinas. On 12 August 2021, the people of Zambia will vote to elect a new president, who will be the seventh person elected to the office since Zambia won its independence from the United Kingdom in 1964 if the incumbent loses. The incumbent, President Edgar Lungu, is facing a strong challenge from Fred M’membe, the presidential can...

OPINION | Covid-19: Militarism and big money trampling humanity Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → April → 9 → OPINION | Covid-19: Militarism and big money trampling humanity OPINION | Covid-19: Militarism and big money trampling humanity By ROMEO F. QUIJANO University of the Philippines Manila The Covid-19 pandemic is probably the most devastating disaster that has descended on humanity. Even the crude statistics of doubtful accuracy is petrifying: 133,181,257 cases and...

Seed monopolies: Who controls the worlds food supply? Seed laws criminalizing farmers for using diverse crops that stand a better chance of adapting to climate change are threatening food security. Seed sovereignty activists want to reclaim the right to plant. More than half of the global seed market is in the hands of just a few corporations For thousands of years of human agriculture, the intrinsic nature of a seed — the capacity to reproduce itself — prevented it from being easily commo...

news Seed monopolies: Who controls the worlds food supply? dw.com 3 hrs ago Charli Shield Seed laws criminalizing farmers for using diverse crops that stand a better chance of adapting to climate change are threatening food security. Seed sovereignty activists want to reclaim the right to plant. © Frank May/dpa/picture alliance More than half of the global seed market is in the hands of just a few corporations For thousands of years of human agriculture, the intrinsic natur...

- Advertisement - In his younger days, former Singapore minister George Yeo came to the notice of the Internal Security Department (ISD), Singapore’s domestic intelligence agency, partly due to his association with the late Malaysian civil society activist Martin Khor, he disclosed in his Facebook post on April 1. On Facebook, the 66-year-old Yeo described his time as an undergraduate at Cambridge University with Martin Khor: “Martin became like an elder brother to me in Cambridge. Through ...