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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday that anyone found to have acted beyond bounds in his campaign against illegal drugs would be held accountable under national laws, while appearing to reject an International Criminal Court probe. Duterte told the United Nations General Assembly he had instructed the Philippines Justice Department and police to review the conduct of the campaign, in which more than 6,100 suspected drug dealers and users have been killed since he took office in June 2016. Those found to have acted beyond bounds during operations sha...

Lucy Williams is a  law professor at Northeastern University, faculty director of its Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration, and co-director of its Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy. Her activism and scholarship have focused on domestic and global inequality. She founded and has coordinated for 15 years the International Social and Economic Rights Project, a group of academics, judges and activists primarily from the Global South working to encourage transformative thinking about social and economic rights. Domingo Lovera-Parmo Domingo Lovera-Parmo is an  Ass...

COVID vaccine makers must relent on intellectual property rights and see to the world’s needs Updated May 1, 2021, 2:30 a.m. Email to a Friend This is the people’s vaccine — share it widely ▪ Taxpayer dollars assumed the financial risk for enabling rapid production of any successful vaccine candidates. ▪ Taxpayer dollars are funding the COVAX program; however, high income-countries have pre-ordered most of the actual vaccines. Rosenblatt writes that “the system that gave us these shots depends entirely on strong intellectual property rights. These same protection...