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450 academics, civil society organisations, politicians, unions, faith leaders, and healthcare workers call for Boris Johnson to waive vaccine patents - Global Justice Now


450 academics, civil society organisations, politicians, unions, faith leaders, and healthcare workers call for Boris Johnson to waive vaccine patents
450 academics, civil society organisations, politicians, unions, faith leaders, and healthcare workers call for Boris Johnson to waive vaccine patents
450 academics, civil society organisations, politicians, unions, faith leaders, and healthcare workers call for Boris Johnson to waive vaccine patents
Date: 10 May 2021
Prime Minister urged to “stand on the right side of history” after Biden administration announces support for a waiver
Hundreds of academics, public health experts, MPs, peers, charities, NGOs, unions, faith leaders and healthcare workers
 have signed a letter calling for Boris Johnson to suspend intellectual property rules on Covid-19 vaccines and treatments. ....

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Any government will focus on its legacy as it heads towards dissolution and the possibility of a lost election. For Gordon Brown’s administration, the Equality Act was part of that legacy – an ambitious 11th-hour addition to the statute book that replaced nine pieces of legislation, including groundbreaking and iconic laws on race and equal pay. The act was preceded by the creation of a new watchdog, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which absorbed the discrete equality remits of its predecessors. But does an ‘umbrella’ approach to equality work? The act is often misunderstood by the public bodies that should enforce and reinforce it. And with poor access to justice, people with the protected characteristics listed in the act find that making their rights justiciable is a struggle. ....

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