<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><i class="">A huge thanks to everyone who participated in today’s press conference. Below is a link to the video. <b class=""> </b><a href="https://twitter.com/TradeJusticeEd/status/1535299985981550594?s=20&t=jCqKcyez0Xbm8DXXyPsH_Q" class=""><b class="">Please retweet here.</b></a></i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://tradejusticeedfund.org/wto-fails-basic-do-no-further-harm-on-access-to-covid-vaccines-treatments-tests/" class="">https://tradejusticeedfund.org/wto-fails-basic-do-no-further-harm-on-access-to-covid-vaccines-treatments-tests/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="et_pb_section et_pb_section_0_tb_body et_section_regular section-width-fix"><div class="et_pb_row_0_tb_body banner-row-width-fix et_pb_row"><div class=" et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column_0_tb_body et_pb_column"><div class=" et_pb_post_title et_pb_bg_layout_dark et_pb_post_title_0_tb_body et_pb_module h1-size et_pb_text_align_left"><div class="et_pb_title_container"><h1 class="entry-title">WTO Fails Basic “Do No Further Harm” on Access to COVID Vaccines, Treatments, Tests</h1><p class="et_pb_title_meta_container"><span class="published">Jun 10, 2022</span> | <a href="https://tradejusticeedfund.org/category/public-health/" rel="category tag" class="">Public Health</a></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://tradejusticeedfund.org/wto-fails-basic-do-no-further-harm-on-access-to-covid-vaccines-treatments-tests/" class=""><b class="">[LINK TO VIDEO]</b></a></div><div class=""><div class="et_pb_column_3_4 et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_pb_column_1_tb_body et_pb_column"><div class="et_pb_post_content et_pb_post_content_0_tb_body h3-size et_pb_module h2-size"><p class="">On eve of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial, health, development and human rights advocates held an online press conference to discuss how WTO talks have veered away from waiving intellectual property barriers that have blocked billions of people’s timely access to life-saving COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.</p><p class="">If the WTO proves so unfit for purpose that its waiver mechanism intended specifically for such emergencies will once again be blocked by a few wealthy countries doing Pharma’s bidding. The same shamefully occurred in the late 1990s during the HIV-AID crisis and as a result millions died. Now as then, the pathways and tactics to ensure people have access to live-saving medicines must escalate as failure is not an option with millions of lives and livelihoods at stake.</p><p class="">Speakers, in the order they appear, are:</p><p class="">Arthur Stamoulis, Executive Director, Trade Justice Education Fund<br class="">Lori Wallach, Director, ReThink Trade<br class="">Abby Maxman, President & CEO, Oxfam America<br class="">Paul O’Brien, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA<br class="">Asia Russell, Executive Director, Health GAP<br class="">Akshaya Kumar, Director of Crisis Advocacy, Human Rights Watch<br class="">Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="">
Arthur Stamoulis<br class="">Citizens Trade Campaign<br class="">(202) 494-8826<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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