<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="">Hello friends: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Heartbreaking, if unsurprising, news out of Geneva: after more than a year obstinacy and bullying by Global North powers, the WTO approved a pathetic “we-need-to-do-something” text on COVID that fails to reduce existing barriers to vaccine, test and treatment access and even imposes some new obstacles.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In response, 298 public health, labor and other civil society groups across dozens of countries issued this <a href="https://tradejusticeedfund.org/governments-must-break-big-pharma-wto-stranglehold-on-access-to-medicine/" class=""><b class="">Call to Action: Governments Must Break Big Pharma-WTO Stranglehold on Access to Medicine by Taking Immediate Action to Prioritize Human Lives Over Pharmaceutical Monopolies.</b></a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In addition to calling out the European Union, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States for their roles in blocking the comprehensive TRIPS waiver agreement supported by much of the planet, the statement also calls on governments to begin circumventing and outright defying the WTO's IP rules and also to pledge not to initiate trade disputes against one another for doing so.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A huge thank you to everyone who signed the statement and helped to draft it. Now comes the important steps: making sure policymakers, the media and supporters see it! Please help amplify our collective work in the following ways:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><b class="">Share the statement with reporters </b>using this <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/118VJYvPIoMu0Z2wFzv9yWl3wK8zGUQhFKKb5uonhoNg/edit" class="">template press release</a> if helpful. Copies of the statement are also available in <a href="https://tradejusticeedfund.org/wp-content/uploads/Appel-mondial-a-laction_FR_Bad-Deal.pdf" class="">French</a> and <a href="https://tradejusticeedfund.org/wp-content/uploads/Llamado-Global-a-la-Accion_ES-Bad-deal.pdf" class="">Spanish</a>.</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><b class="">Share the statement on social media</b> using the graphics and text in this <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ut-hRQnr_UPOYMBph-LRDXyr0PIBP6prtHALcyHWvWc/edit?usp=sharing" class="">social media toolkit</a>. Want a faster option? <a href="https://twitter.com/TradeJusticeEd/status/1537635318110855168?s=20&t=iX4Yt6nVcbTork9KoHPD9A" class=""><b class="">Please retweet here.</b></a></li></ul></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><b class="">Share the addendum with policymakers. </b> Please share a <a href="https://tradejusticeedfund.org/wp-content/uploads/CalltoAction_EN_BadDeal.pdf" class="">PDF of the Statement</a> and especially the <a href="https://tradejusticeedfund.org/wp-content/uploads/Actions-Governments-Can-Take-Now-to-Help-Save-Lives-and-End-the-Pandemic.pdf" class="">Addendum: Actions Governments Can Take Now to Save Lives and End the Pandemic</a> wherever useful. Initial translations of the addendum in Spanish, French and Arabic are <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F4LCyOAL5a8WyDbP760ZiXtp4ph-5VAlUoDlBVTXu7w/edit" class="">here</a>.</li></ul></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for all your work. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In solidarity,</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Arthur Stamoulis<br class="">Citizens Trade Campaign<br class="">(202) 494-8826<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><table role="presentation" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" border="0" style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><tbody style="line-height: inherit;" class=""><tr style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><td align="left" style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse; overflow-wrap: break-word; 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border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><tbody style="line-height: inherit;" class=""><tr style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><td align="left" style="line-height: inherit; vertical-align: top; border-collapse: collapse; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; padding: 10px;" class=""><div style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px; word-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0pt 0px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.6px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span style="line-height: 33.6px; font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><strong style="line-height: inherit;" class="">298 Public Health, Labor & Other Groups Condemn WTO's Failure to Waive Rules Standing in the Way of COVID Vaccine & Treatment Access</strong></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0pt 0px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 25.2px; font-size: 18px;" class=""><em style="line-height: inherit;" class=""><span style="line-height: 25.2px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 25.2px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><span style="line-height: 25.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><strong style="line-height: inherit;" class="">EU, Switzerland, UK & US Criticized for Blocking a Waiver; Governments Urged to Take Action Outside of the WTO </strong></span></span></span></em></span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0pt 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-size: 16px; font-family: "times new roman", times; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">For Immediate Release:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0pt 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-size: 16px; font-family: "times new roman", times; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">June 16, 2022</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0pt 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;" class=""> </p><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0pt 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-family: "times new roman", times; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Contact: Mike Stankiewicz, </span><a href="mailto:mike@tradejusticeedfund.org" style="line-height: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">mike@tradejusticeedfund.org</span></a><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">, <span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">(202) 255-7472</span></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0pt 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;" class=""> </p><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.6px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-size: 16px;" class="">WASHINGTON, D.C. —<span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-family: "times new roman", times;" class=""> </span></span></span><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-size: 16px; font-family: "times new roman", times;" class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-7b36bf44-7fff-28d2-1c34-428953dea778" style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">As the World Trade Organization’s first ministerial meeting since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic closed without agreement to temporarily waive WTO intellectual property rules standing in the way of global vaccine, test and treatment access, 298 public health and other civil society organizations from </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">dozens of countries condemned the European Union, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States for their roles in blocking a waiver proposed by South Africa and India and cosponsored by 65 nations.</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;"> </p><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0pt 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-family: "times new roman", times; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">In the face of the outrageous WTO failure, the groups also </span><a href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/dSCQfi9FLISmU3ZE3bfPhmrHiqsPGGi-xR6mNf0-kFLMywZrfbsrREIZ2Irg1yTUjaaHni48tyAa1SU4elN22m7WPWRvtNFrUGm1DX-NnyOL_ygcQakAVEOXH_jmE0i_JUlYeZF2a8aBBpyukVrJckMMFGnR_I3jL8NYdPQIcyb5hShOTcWQE3GH_9GzxLfXYwdjftAUGY_jpWFNECIuZTRMPESoh0j8p54FRIOcFHWVGDGq4OmfHHV-Kk6lSHvNonzJHz_KI8Zf0lhDoZDtfJTCrREWCh71Ns1vYGlqkuYxjvx1T1tVKimbpMcY4_I6SB39QaD5WP1c2NPN6QQAPCUbItXmVj8ok5oVD3QCpe6Kq56ql9hRXGzy5i8D56loPKFORiAQv--uPmQ5CPlo2Zh3rOd8dIDiiSWQK-kW8x03-WYfhdh0U_ZNvT5OIgNzUgYxQS1S-jyzFDLC1KqNQdKSSS91PnJ449NyzaL2YmY/3mz/K5bDjZwoQRGQXAoTcKM6gA/h0/33rIB_qe7ENpt2uTu3bL-GtwfiY9kQwWIhQMaoQXsqs" style="line-height: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">called on governments</span></a><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> to “act in good faith outside of the WTO’s strictures” to ensure everyone has access to the COVID vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics necessary to save lives and end the pandemic. The groups released a joint statement </span>that <a href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/dSCQfi9FLISmU3ZE3bfPhmrHiqsPGGi-xR6mNf0-kFJS5k7De2jcxKCIiwBHVRhXygn_jgE3w1x-glrpDk69XOR10IjtZ8YFhb2I82utbzSiYlj98Ns_QZLvSpGHL9zS75PD-DODFgWPaCuKUfyNgE0PTUU-w8FjAmyEz6AXyplCwPbC9c2qqbTptB6JJ--CPAEw7yxF2ESUY537SQbFgaM2AQckGvReMuRzK3oEmI7jmOcCKlfWOLocvJgCZrGkiZ49sCEdb7vgURDLDDKjvr-t9ArTqtTGwLgmnqx3VQM2p11b985gkr1z45Vo9pPbsrH7dGLX65ZYMHhYYgRX2zUdVfMMOrwc3K8djYVBtVP4mCcCrP17T9djLgjZEIWU8umwUKi6-UmbLMUQjnlv2S0-gpzQkuLBHDihTAg8DdmpplbLMK8fJcDjxyJQfY39Oh21QPUm2UzGKvJ2QMeFUA2296gN4WcHd5kSv_pqLLEEbjpdora8sL8_Hm7pb-XqW2SX_q_AUkVKBdfRhzp_Vw/3mz/K5bDjZwoQRGQXAoTcKM6gA/h1/n86YMo8hEkfwZBmpu99iRO_2n9d3HV71Mbxk_z0HAvk" style="line-height: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">includes a list of specific actions </span></a><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">governments must take to:</span></span></div><ul style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: inherit;" class=""><li dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 16.8px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-family: "times new roman", times; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">“Pledge not to use the WTO’s and other trade and investment agreements’ dispute mechanisms or other means in an attempt to stop or dissuade countries from producing, distributing or using medical technologies or from sharing information on how to do so regardless of WTO and free trade agreement IP rules; <br style="line-height: inherit;" class=""><br style="line-height: inherit;" class=""></span></span></li><li dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 16.8px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-family: "times new roman", times; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">"</span></span><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-family: "times new roman", times; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Take every step necessary to save lives and end the pandemic, including by fully using the WTO’s existing, albeit limited, flexibilities; and <br style="line-height: inherit;" class=""><br style="line-height: inherit;" class=""></span></span></li><li dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 16.8px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-family: "times new roman", times; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">"</span></span><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-size: 16px; font-family: "times new roman", times; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Circumvent the WTO’s pharmaceutical monopoly rules when possible and outright defy those rules when needed.”</span></li></ul><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.6px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 16.8px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-family: "times new roman", times; font-size: 16px;" class="">The groups described the WTO as “broken and dangerously out-of-touch” for being unable to get out of the way of saving lives in the worst health crisis in a generation, much less be relevant to fighting the pandemic. </span></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;"> </p><div style="line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-size: 16px;" class="">"Two years into a pandemic that has already killed an estimated 15 million people, the WTO continues to prioritize protecting pharmaceutical monopoly profits over protecting human lives,"<strong style="line-height: inherit;" class=""> said Arthur Stamoulis, executive director of the Trade Justice Education Fund</strong>, which helped draft the statement. “</span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.6px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-size: 16px;" class="">Governments that want to prevent the vaccine apartheid that characterized the rollout of first-generation COVID vaccines from being replicated with new COVID treatments and second-generation vaccines will now need to take action outside of the WTO’s intellectual property rules, while also pledging not to initiate trade disputes against other countries for doing so."</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0pt 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-size: 16px; font-family: "times new roman", times;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The WTO's final Ministerial document includes a no-waiver text that <a rel="noopener" href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/dSCQfi9FLISmU3ZE3bfPhhi4U0p8OcZj9k_pny4Y9elZ5WZqVgpenlhTYVNy1OF49Q1kiIvclOx_8I4LCRo8d9GD_1kWHdzlPYxt0rW7tJGFXtJ52nSsAtComi9a5gxApdz2hzbSZUNaWF6a6zvy8rTKVwVXEeT3q66FAvgfa-We2hvOBcYDgfhHMxDpM_EgtLNd-Y9Jt8rEFIfi75J1BttC_l-9bmggtMT2GAM82hHFZnkZ7Z1T4SAVh61SNGh5AcGw7AwBtWp9JY8Gkd_wxEUItqqrxoGEHo8M_WE2fpru1QF3x59GlUARrqi5NPwrKJsU6L6hxe70meh7oJcxZzw5IlB-VVmSbb3bANwkMcioo6xHD3cGt4rVOi0Q-G5XEaXECuj5OcYhmVOJIzmQasW7WwRYIlTSQOeMdiVBc0hqhO3eaIqWMxzIcRxb7AQ8Ps1YJLzMny0I7cdubCyPcp07_FzvmeFXlQDN_n6z25w/3mz/K5bDjZwoQRGQXAoTcKM6gA/h2/C7Uc-5QMrDzraDtFd0Tb46EXZrbBaEgC-12fHGPkArA" target="_blank" style="line-height: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal</a> attacked this week as "completely half-baked," also saying, "it will not allow us to make any vaccines. They have no intentions of allowing therapeutics and diagnostics."</span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0pt 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </p><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0pt 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-size: 16px; font-family: "times new roman", times;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><a rel="noopener" href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/atcYNHk4Eh2YdGnwBh-YDDuvvVhIq4fblb9TOlyB37lyiFRXKcJPhH0qMAmetFGx-5UFqSNsCF09okGznUwQ8XJWh1OUBcY7r3RFcAqwkhkermErHCdo55WVSTRaMdY-Ktm3Q4CGA_u70946EHjw4M1tiGV7PLYb3gWuFbYsWjGgOVdvLIv2_mbGktsA4gSu6zJ5z4Ys7r58BYtnIDpG4NBFLYWg8BC1CbFCZh2DZmgka5rVsEOmutCIMY0ULms3FrVyBaUzgrB5jQw7269f4jDCxVXXbFSVL3tD4ty79Irfrp9YeU5lLRUqWhTHTKO60yICi7eqbM0B2x4xNkMnEAHtO_fGIlh6lQzGRPRyuzFCcwsvc3p0UP5tdalhCXKiYb1TOhl2UPLjI6iXUAGFACDNWjsft6ieWGwm_iQf52eFjjZ5JXDvrJqtdPD0G3pOoYBCswEOCmNSzNGjMrteCwWnyjK-vllctq4RHz7Bkb0/3mz/K5bDjZwoQRGQXAoTcKM6gA/h3/XoFBfCbAAkFfBVkHWz5_9OTFt2by28rTlC6SpaGlSH8" target="_blank" style="line-height: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">Mexican Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo Lópex-Gatell</a> also said of the text this week: "For almost two years, a handful of rich countries have resisted a life-saving </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">proposal tabled by India and South Africa that could speed up global COVID-19 vaccination, making a mockery of the World Trade Organization. Now, these countries are attempting to stitch up the process in order to put the profits of big pharma over people’s lives… Ahead of these meetings, a damaging new proposal </span><span style="line-height: 22.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">has emerged that is being pushed by the European Union and WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. This proposal would be worse than none at all."</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;"> </p><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.6px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-size: 16px;" class="">Signers of today's civil society statement include </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Public Services International (PSI),</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">People's Health Movement (PHM), </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">African Alliance,</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Health Justice International (HJI), </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Oxfam,</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Amnesty International, Partners in Health, Focus on the Global South, Vaccine Advocacy Resource Group, </span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">World Federation of Public Health Associations, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;" class="">Rethink Trade, Public Citizen, </span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Citizens Trade Campaign, Trade Justice Education Fund and others.</span><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;"> </p><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.6px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-size: 16px;" class="">Read the statement and full list of signers <a rel="noopener" href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/dSCQfi9FLISmU3ZE3bfPhmrHiqsPGGi-xR6mNf0-kFLMywZrfbsrREIZ2Irg1yTUjaaHni48tyAa1SU4elN22m7WPWRvtNFrUGm1DX-NnyOL_ygcQakAVEOXH_jmE0i_JUlYeZF2a8aBBpyukVrJctlWwtPlRD4mJaYhSmhXvYCztOMLvQBOG9qM3c3HVEBoxiADsL1Sw4_-sRS2tHlRm1FSkP1Zc2dOczbT-HBPOwP4DYiHQ87BZRhxXxZkZ81WXNr9CShLG-fxRfyDliJNhlOLQAPW1YBil1tKruzE_mrD_u3RAxLvuqpRh1B_MfKoJDp6RTiH0hFqePwpw0wfZBLgsUmar3mpqj2yK18sQ6_dDe-PYLt41-w8RO7VGcYxJOXeScHnZ6D2Atqxwi_e267iXXNAIT-20zjepnqqtp06xSJQkmIzqQihC-lCK8gIWNlDS5HXh3VedZKVkdDyKVn_yco0-eXIlPjYVhifNXE/3mz/K5bDjZwoQRGQXAoTcKM6gA/h4/qmnjBIYX8dVDMSymjVyiieN1bm66sT6eXX1R-JHRcZE" target="_blank" style="line-height: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">here</a>. An addendum on "Actions Governments Can Take Now to Save Lives and End the Pandemic" is available <a rel="noopener" href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/dSCQfi9FLISmU3ZE3bfPhmrHiqsPGGi-xR6mNf0-kFJS5k7De2jcxKCIiwBHVRhXygn_jgE3w1x-glrpDk69XOR10IjtZ8YFhb2I82utbzSiYlj98Ns_QZLvSpGHL9zS75PD-DODFgWPaCuKUfyNgE0PTUU-w8FjAmyEz6AXypn3gBszNfXW8VQlLvR0ZEa_MtlhXkom4XZwC64t1qEm-M_ZTM3fWPmtKjuRh8wMklnbDMzEiA2vSEIhtOethAOGf5Obxcqh7WrQGNukqjQ2uuYjVAl1M4ofN4JEUV-dTxOA1TyHGyv2F9FFoNhv3JwNuLhOs7bPRz4cXxKj72Kss49eGyss2psV_ROsZikscHrQ3iq1iR7Od1u_u-B9NJYH32uSDQKnUuIFaM1L390iC3oF8VU9-gm7RunNFvNY6xbdvUaG6H-OouTxTU5nMCsUWhjJjmKuDWCeUw0RJjC_Xo8Cx1fGyDiP9YP_EnZMOby0XAmYssJtP0cjxV1ugSBFHOz0bbvUnKRHqyPB4p4HIg/3mz/K5bDjZwoQRGQXAoTcKM6gA/h5/31b4KGT_nfgmrzI4wXhJpTrSrYJavQK8E4gpwZaSjnw" target="_blank" style="line-height: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">here</a>.</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.6px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19.600000381469727px; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 19.6px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.4px; font-size: 16px;" class="">###</span></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div>
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