Free The Vaccine
How health activists got Australia to back patent waiver on COVID-19 vaccines
Months-long campaigning and advocacy efforts have played a large part in mobilizing public opinion in favor of a TRIPS waiver for the vaccines. Australia was among the few member-nations in the WTO to oppose the waiver
Free the vaccine: Protests greet German chancellor Angela Merkel on US visit
Demonstrations calling for Germany to stop blocking patent waiver for COVID-19 vaccines were held in the US capital, Washington DC, among other places, as German chancellor Angela Merkel made an official visit to the US to meet president Joe Biden
Mass famine looms in Ethiopia’s Tigray region as civil war spreads and other stories
Today we look at the humanitarian crisis in Tigray as the civil war re-escalates, protests for vaccine equity during Angela Merkel’s visit to the US, and more
- Letter by academics across the globe raises concerns over the ICC’s inaction on Gaza
- MST sends another donation of 11 tons of food to families in Gaza
- Rising incidents of custodial death trigger demonstration in Sri Lanka
- Anti-fascists in Italy protest police attack on Turin University students
- Senate Republicans block $111 billion aid package for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan
