FRAND Terms for Pandemic-essential Intellectual Property Rights
The use of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) terms in the licensing of intellectual property rights could foster cooperation in pandemics.
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Read more: Limiting Human Rights During Pandemics: Recommendations for Closing Reporting Gaps and Increasing International Oversight Limiting Human Rights During Pandemics: Recommendations for Closing Reporting Gaps and Increasing International Oversight
A pandemic instrument should enhance roles for and communication between regional and global governmental bodies and especially non-governmental actors.
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Read more: Killing Locally or Killing Globally? Inequalities in Framing Cooperation Through Pandemics Killing Locally or Killing Globally? Inequalities in Framing Cooperation Through Pandemics
The international community must avoid entrenching in international law a system indifferent to right-to-health core obligations.
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Read more: Human Rights and Global Responses to the Pandemic in the Age of Hyper-globalization Human Rights and Global Responses to the Pandemic in the Age of Hyper-globalization
The age of hyper-globalization requires global institutions that enable global – collective – responses to contain pandemics worldwide.
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Read more: Governance Needs for Pandemic Preparedness and Response: How to Ensure the Science-Policy Interface Governance Needs for Pandemic Preparedness and Response: How to Ensure the Science-Policy Interface
As policymakers consider proposals aimed at preventing another pandemic, the integration of the science-policy interface in their design is important.
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Read more: Can a Pandemic Lawmaking Exercise Promote Global Health Justice? — Final Symposium Editorial Can a Pandemic Lawmaking Exercise Promote Global Health Justice? — Final Symposium Editorial
Multiple entries argue that justice requires going beyond narrow disease surveillance to enhance legal as well as health system preparedness.
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Read more: From Cooperation to Solidarity: A Legal Compass for Pandemic Lawmaking From Cooperation to Solidarity: A Legal Compass for Pandemic Lawmaking
By understanding legal obligations in terms of solidarity, states would be guided toward actions that favor collective over individual benefit.
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Read more: Who Will Pay for COVID-29? (Or, Who Will Pay to Avert It?) Who Will Pay for COVID-29? (Or, Who Will Pay to Avert It?)
Amid discussions of a pandemic treaty, it bears emphasizing that any framework that does not reckon with cost will fall short of an acceptable solution.
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Read more: Strengthening Global and National Governance for Gender Equality in Health Emergencies Strengthening Global and National Governance for Gender Equality in Health Emergencies
An international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response should advance gender equality through inclusive global and national governance.
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Read more: Scientific Innovation in International Pandemic Lawmaking — Second Symposium Editorial 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.