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: Decolonizing the Pandemic Treaty Through Vaccine Equity Decolonizing the Pandemic Treaty Through Vaccine Equity
Putting vaccine equity at the center of a pandemic treaty will already be a huge step towards global health’s decolonization.
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Read more: Why We Need a Transformative Right-to-Health Pandemic Treaty Now Why We Need a Transformative Right-to-Health Pandemic Treaty Now
Health systems that lack universality and inclusivity will always fall short on disease surveillance, detection, and response.
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Read more: The Import of the UNCRPD and Disability Justice for Pandemic Preparedness and Response The Import of the UNCRPD and Disability Justice for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
This commentary outlines three of the more important considerations for international pandemic lawmaking with respect to people with disabilities.
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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.
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Read more: The Pandemic Treaty and Intellectual Property Sharing: Making Vaccine Knowledge a Public Good 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.
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Read more: Promoting Vaccine Equity Promoting Vaccine Equity
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief longstanding equity problems surrounding the allocation of newly developed vaccines.
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Read more: The Pandemic Treaty as a Framework for Global Solidarity: Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations in Global Health Governance 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.
