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Read more: SYMPOSIUM SPEAKER SERIES: International Pandemic Lawmaking: Addressing Scientific Innovation through Pandemic Lawmaking

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October 19, 2021

SYMPOSIUM SPEAKER SERIES: International Pandemic Lawmaking: Addressing Scientific Innovation through Pandemic Lawmaking

Event Description Amid contention that global governance was unprepared and incapacitated in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this November, a special session of the World Health Assembly will convene to discuss a potential international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response. As part of the “International Pandemic Lawmaking: Conceptual and Practical Issues” symposium which published…
Read more: The Target of Health Justice

Article

October 18, 2021

The Target of Health Justice

Distributing vaccines equitably at the level of geographical units such as districts or nation-states may obfuscate injustices.
Read more: Scientific Innovation in International Pandemic Lawmaking — Second Symposium Editorial

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October 18, 2021

Scientific Innovation in International Pandemic Lawmaking — Second Symposium Editorial

The broken world in which we find ourselves underscores the imperative of reflecting on how lawmaking can be used to advance scientific innovation.
Read more: The Pandemic Treaty and Intellectual Property Sharing: Making Vaccine Knowledge a Public Good

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October 15, 2021

The Pandemic Treaty and Intellectual Property Sharing: Making Vaccine Knowledge a Public Good

The pandemic has laid bare the lack of regulation for the sharing of intellectual property needed for an effective and equitable response.
Read more: The Pandemic Treaty as a Framework for Global Solidarity: Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations in Global Health Governance

Article

October 13, 2021

The Pandemic Treaty as a Framework for Global Solidarity: Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations in Global Health Governance

WHO has an opportunity to advance extraterritorial obligations under the right to health as an international legal basis for global solidarity.
Read more: Disruptions of Dignity: COVID-19 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Latin America

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October 8, 2021

Disruptions of Dignity: COVID-19 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Latin America

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Event Description The COVID-19 pandemic battered the Latin American region, and has exacted a disproportionate toll on the lives of persons with disabilities throughout Latin America, exacerbating inequalities and entrenching already pervasive patterns of marginalization. These effects were especially evident for institutionalized persons with disabilities throughout the region – who faced heightened risk of COVID-19…
Read more: 21st Century Lawmaking in an Interdependent World

Article

October 4, 2021

21st Century Lawmaking in an Interdependent World

A new pandemic instrument should explicitly embrace the three emerging global regulatory standards of due diligence, due regard, and regulatory coherence.
Read more: Strengthening International Legal Authorities to Advance Global Health Security

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September 29, 2021

Strengthening International Legal Authorities to Advance Global Health Security

An innovative pandemic treaty could become a transformative model of global solidarity in the face of common threats.
Read more: Moving Beyond a State-Centric Pandemic Preparedness Paradigm: A Call for Action

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September 27, 2021

Moving Beyond a State-Centric Pandemic Preparedness Paradigm: A Call for Action

The state-centric infectious disease regime violates the fundamental principle of how contagious diseases spread within and across countries.
Read more: Whose Global Health Security?

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September 22, 2021

Whose Global Health Security?

The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated how “Global Health Security” is triggered when new diseases reach, or threaten to reach, the global north.

Global Health & Human Rights

SYMPOSIUM SPEAKER SERIES: International Pandemic Lawmaking: Addressing Scientific Innovation through Pandemic Lawmaking

The Target of Health Justice

Scientific Innovation in International Pandemic Lawmaking — Second Symposium Editorial

The Pandemic Treaty and Intellectual Property Sharing: Making Vaccine Knowledge a Public Good

The Pandemic Treaty as a Framework for Global Solidarity: Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations in Global Health Governance

Disruptions of Dignity: COVID-19 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Latin America

21st Century Lawmaking in an Interdependent World

Strengthening International Legal Authorities to Advance Global Health Security

Moving Beyond a State-Centric Pandemic Preparedness Paradigm: A Call for Action

Whose Global Health Security?