Organizers of Friday's EndCOVIDMonopolies protests are calling for waiving intellectual property rules, sharing vaccine recipes, and funding regional hubs to make more doses.
IP rights for Covid-19 vaccines, treatments, and tests. Big Pharma and some wealthy countries oppose such a waiver.
"The die-ins and rallies, taking place in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, call on world leaders, including those in the U.S. and the E.U.
During a recent webinar organized by People's Vaccine Alliance Asia, Oxfam's regional policy and campaigns coordinator, Sunil Acharya,"Within countries," he noted,"remote regions have much lower vaccination rates and the most vulnerable among populations, most of whom lack identification documents are being left behind."
Amani Mustafa of ActionAid Palestine pointed out at the same event that"while 99.4% of the population in Israel is fully vaccinated, in Palestine, only 49% of the population is fully vaccinated." "Israel presents itself as among the most successful in the world in terms of vaccination rates," Mustafa added of the occupying government."However, many Palestinians in West Bank are still waiting to receive vaccination, despite Israel's obligation to provide vaccines under the Geneva Convention.
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