Difference between revisions of "Document:Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19"

From Wikispooks
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(ref fix)
(jobs)
Line 44: Line 44:
 
* '''[[Cyril Ramaphosa]]''' - [[President of the Republic of South Africa]] and Chairperson of the African Union
 
* '''[[Cyril Ramaphosa]]''' - [[President of the Republic of South Africa]] and Chairperson of the African Union
 
* '''[[Karen Koning Abuzayd]]''' - Commissioner of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry for Syria, Under Secretary-General as UNRWA Commissioner-General (2005-2010)
 
* '''[[Karen Koning Abuzayd]]''' - Commissioner of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry for Syria, Under Secretary-General as UNRWA Commissioner-General (2005-2010)
−
* '''[[Maria Elena Agüero]]''' - Secretary General, World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid
+
* '''[[Maria Elena Agüero]]''' - Secretary General, [[World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid]]
−
* '''[[Esko Aho]]''' - Prime Minister of Finland (1991-1995)<ref name=Mad/>
+
* '''[[Esko Aho]]''' - Prime Minister of Finland (1991-1995)<ref name=Mad>Member of WLA Club de Madrid</ref>
 
* '''[[Dr. Shamshad Akhtar]]''' - Former UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
 
* '''[[Dr. Shamshad Akhtar]]''' - Former UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
−
* '''[[Rashid Alimov]]''' - Secretary General, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (2016-2019), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan (1992-1994)<ref name=niz/>
+
* '''[[Rashid Alimov]]''' - Secretary General, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (2016-2019), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan (1992-1994)<ref name=niz>Member of Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC)</ref>
 
* '''[[Philip Alston]]''' - John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law and Former UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
 
* '''[[Philip Alston]]''' - John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law and Former UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
 
* '''[[Baroness Valerie Amos]]''' - United Nations Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (2010-2015)
 
* '''[[Baroness Valerie Amos]]''' - United Nations Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (2010-2015)
Line 81: Line 81:
 
* '''[[Moussa Faki]]''' - Chairperson of the African Union Commission
 
* '''[[Moussa Faki]]''' - Chairperson of the African Union Commission
 
* '''[[Christiana Figueres]]''' - Executive Secretary of UNFCCC (2010-2016)
 
* '''[[Christiana Figueres]]''' - Executive Secretary of UNFCCC (2010-2016)
−
* '''[[Vigdís Finnbogadóttir]]''' - President of Iceland (1980-1996)<ref name=Mad/>
+
* '''[[Vigdís Finnbogadóttir]]''' - [[President of Iceland]] (1980-1996)<ref name=Mad/>
−
* '''[[Louise Fréchette]]''' - UN Deputy Secretary-General (1998-2006)
+
* '''[[Louise Fréchette]]''' - [[UN Deputy Secretary-General]] (1998-2006)
 
* '''[[Sakiko Fukuda-Parr]]''' - Director of the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs and Professor of International Affairs at The New School  
 
* '''[[Sakiko Fukuda-Parr]]''' - Director of the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs and Professor of International Affairs at The New School  
 
* '''[[Patrick Gaspard]]''' - Former [[United States Ambassador to South Africa]], [[President of the Open Society Foundations]]
 
* '''[[Patrick Gaspard]]''' - Former [[United States Ambassador to South Africa]], [[President of the Open Society Foundations]]
 
* '''[[Jayati Ghosh]]''' - Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University
 
* '''[[Jayati Ghosh]]''' - Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University
 
* '''[[Felipe González]]''' - President of the Government of Spain (1982-1996)<ref name=Mad/>
 
* '''[[Felipe González]]''' - President of the Government of Spain (1982-1996)<ref name=Mad/>
−
* '''[[Rebeca Grynspan]]''' - Vice President of Costa Rica (1994-1998), Ibero-American Secretary General
+
* '''[[Rebeca Grynspan]]''' - [[Vice President of Costa Rica]] (1994-1998), Ibero-American Secretary General
−
* '''[[Alfred Gusenbauer]]''' - Chancellor of Austria (2007-2008)<ref name=Mad/>
+
* '''[[Alfred Gusenbauer]]''' - [[Chancellor of Austria]] (2007-2008)<ref name=Mad/>
−
* '''[[Han Seung-Soo]]''' - Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea (2008-2009)<ref name=Mad/>
+
* '''[[Han Seung-Soo]]''' - [[Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea]] (2008-2009)<ref name=Mad/>
 
* '''[[Noeleen Heyzer]]''' - Member of the UN Secretary-General's High Level Advisory Board on Medication<ref name=niz/>
 
* '''[[Noeleen Heyzer]]''' - Member of the UN Secretary-General's High Level Advisory Board on Medication<ref name=niz/>
−
* '''[[Mladen Ivanic]]''' - President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2014-2018)<ref name=niz/>
+
* '''[[Mladen Ivanic]]''' - [[President of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] (2014-2018)<ref name=niz/>
 
* '''[[Devaki Jain]]''' - Feminist economist, Honorary Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford and member of the erstwhile South Commission]] (1987-90)
 
* '''[[Devaki Jain]]''' - Feminist economist, Honorary Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford and member of the erstwhile South Commission]] (1987-90)
 
* '''[[Arjun Jayadev]]''' - Professor of Economics at Azim Premji University
 
* '''[[Arjun Jayadev]]''' - Professor of Economics at Azim Premji University
 
* '''[[Rob Joh[[nson]]''' - President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking
 
* '''[[Rob Joh[[nson]]''' - President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking
−
* '''[[Ellen Johnson Sirleaf]]''' - President of the Republic of Liberia (2006-2018)<ref name=Mad/>
+
* '''[[Ellen Johnson Sirleaf]]''' - [[President of the Republic of Liberia]] (2006-2018)<ref name=Mad/>
−
* '''[[Mehdi Jomaa]]''' - Prime Minister of Tunisia (2014-2015)<ref name=Mad/>
+
* '''[[Mehdi Jomaa]]''' - [[Prime Minister of Tunisia]] (2014-2015)<ref name=Mad/>
 
* '''[[Anthony T. Jones]]''' - Vice-President and Executive Director of Gorbachev Foundation of North America (GFNA)<ref name=Mad/>
 
* '''[[Anthony T. Jones]]''' - Vice-President and Executive Director of Gorbachev Foundation of North America (GFNA)<ref name=Mad/>
−
* '''[[Ivo Josipovic]]''' - President of Croatia (2010-2015)<ref name=niz/>
+
* '''[[Ivo Josipovic]]''' - [[President of Croatia]] (2010-2015)<ref name=niz/>
 
* '''[[Naila Kabeer]]''' - Professor of Gender and International Development at the [[London School of Economics]]
 
* '''[[Naila Kabeer]]''' - Professor of Gender and International Development at the [[London School of Economics]]
 
* '''[[Michel Kazatchkine]]''' - Special Advisor to the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS ([[UNAIDS]]) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Senior Fellow, Global Health Center, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
 
* '''[[Michel Kazatchkine]]''' - Special Advisor to the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS ([[UNAIDS]]) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Senior Fellow, Global Health Center, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Revision as of 17:46, 19 July 2022

A call for "A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19"

Disclaimer (#3)Document.png open letter  by Imran Khan, Cyril Ramaphosa, Karen Koning Abuzayd, Maria Elena Agüero, Esko Aho, Dr. Shamshad Akhtar, Rashid Alimov, Philip Alston, Baroness Valerie Amos, Rosalia Arteaga Serrano, Maria Eugenia Brizuela de Avila, Shaukat Aziz, Jan Peter Balkenende, Joyce Banda, Nelson Barbosa, José Manuel Barroso, Carol Bellamy, Valdis Birkavs, Irina Bokova, Gordon Brown, Winnie Byanyima, Kim Campbell, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Gina Casar, Hikmet Cetin, Ha-Joon Chang, Judy Cheng-Hopkins, Laura Chinchilla, Joaquim Chissano, Helen Clark, Emil Constantinescu, Paula A. Cox, Herman De Croo, Olivier De Schutter, Danny Dorling, Ruth Dreifuss, Diane Elson, Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Moussa Faki, Christiana Figueres, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Louise Fréchette, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Patrick Gaspard, Jayati Ghosh, Felipe González, Rebeca Grynspan, Alfred Gusenbauer, Han Seung-Soo, Noeleen Heyzer, Mladen Ivanic, Devaki Jain, Arjun Jayadev, Rob Johnson, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Mehdi Jomaa, Anthony T. Jones, Ivo Josipovic, Naila Kabeer, Michel Kazatchkine, Rima Khalaf, Horst Köhler, Jadanka Kosor, Bernard Kouchner, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Rachel Kyte CMG, Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera, Ricardo Lagos, Zlatko Lagumdzija, Laura Liswood, Nora Lustig, Jessie Rose Mabutas, Graça Machel, Susana Malcorra, Isabel Saint Malo, Purnima Mane, Mariana Mazzucato, Mary McAleese, Rexhep Meidani, Carlos Mesa, Branko Milanovic, Aïchatou Mindaoudou, Festus Mogae, Mario Monti, Kgalema Motlanthe, Rovshan Muradov, Dr. John Nkengasong, Olusegun Obasanjo, Djoomart Otorbayev, Roza Otunbayeva, Ana Palacio, Dr. David Pan, Flavia Pansieri, Elsa Papademetriou, Andres Pastrana, Kate Pickett, Thomas Piketty, Rosen Plevneliev, Hifikepunye Pohamba, Karin Sham Pòo, Achal Prabhala, Dainius Puras, Iveta Radicova, José Manuel Ramos-Horta, J.V.R. Prasada Rao, Geeta Rao Gupta, Oscar Ribas, Mary Robinson, Dani Rodrik, Petre Roman, Juan Manuel Santos, Kailash Satyarthi, Ismail Serageldin, Fatiha Serour, Michel Sidibé, Mari Simonen, Pierre Somse, Vera Songwe, Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Eka Tkeshelashvili, Aminata Touré, Danilo Türk, Cassam Uteem, Marianna V. Vardinoyannis, Ann Veneman, Chema Vera, Melanne Verveer, Filip Vujanovic, Margot Wallström, Richard Wilkinson, Kateryna Yushchenko, Viktor Yushchenko, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Valdis Zatlers, Ernesto Zedillo, Gabriel Zucman dated 14 May 2020
Subjects: COVID-19 Vaccines
Source: Link

★ Join the Discussion about this document
Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19


Humanity today, in all its fragility, is searching for an effective and safe vaccine against COVID-19. It is our best hope of putting a stop to this painful global pandemic.

We are calling on Health Ministers at the World Health Assembly to rally behind a people’s vaccine against this disease urgently. Governments and international partners must unite around a global guarantee which ensures that, when a safe and effective vaccine is developed, it is produced rapidly at scale and made available for all people, in all countries, free of charge. The same applies for all treatments, diagnostics, and other technologies for COVID-19.

We recognize that many countries and international organizations are making progress towards this goal, cooperating multilaterally on research and development, funding and access, including the welcome $8 billion pledged on 4 th May. Thanks to tireless public and private sector efforts and billions of dollars of publicly-financed research, many vaccine candidates are proceeding with unprecedented speed and several have begun clinical trials.

Our world will only be safer once everyone can benefit from the science and access a vaccine - and that is a political challenge. The World Health Assembly must forge a global agreement that ensures rapid universal access to quality-assured vaccines and treatments with need prioritized above the ability to pay.

It is time for Health Ministers to renew the commitments made at the founding of the World Health Organization, where all states agreed to deliver the “the highest attainable standard of health as a fundamental right of every human being”. Now is not the time to allow the interests of the wealthiest corporations and governments to be placed before the universal need to save lives, or to leave this massive and moral task to market forces. Access to vaccines and treatments as global public goods are in the interests of all humanity. We cannot afford for monopolies, crude competition and near-sighted nationalism to stand in the way.

We must heed the warning that “Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” We must learn the painful lessons from a history of unequal access in dealing with disease such as HIV and Ebola. But we must also remember the ground-breaking victories of health movements, including AIDS activists and advocates who fought for access to affordable medicines for all. Applying both sets of lessons, we call for a global agreement on COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics and treatments – implemented under the leadership of the World Health Organization – that:

1. Ensures mandatory worldwide sharing of all COVID-19 related knowledge, data and technologies with a pool of COVID-19 licenses freely available to all countries. Countries should be empowered and enabled to make full use of agreed safeguards and flexibilities in the WTO Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health to protect access to medicines for all.

2. Establishes a global and equitable rapid manufacturing and distribution plan – that is fully-funded by rich nations – for the vaccine and all COVID-19 products and technologies that guarantees transparent ‘at true cost-prices’ and supplies according to need. Action must start urgently to massively build capacity worldwide to manufacture billions of vaccine doses and to recruit and train the millions of paid and protected health workers needed to deliver them.

3. Guarantees COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics, tests and treatments are provided free of charge to everyone, everywhere. Access needs to be prioritized first for front-line workers, the most vulnerable people, and for poor countries with the least capacity to save lives.

In doing so, no one can be left behind. Transparent democratic governance must be set in place by the WHO, inclusive of independent expertise and civil society partners, which is essential to lock-in accountability for this agreement.

In doing so, we also recognize the urgent need to reform and strengthen public health systems worldwide, removing all barriers so that rich and poor alike can access the health care, technologies and medicines they need, free at the point of need. Only a people’s vaccine – with equality and solidarity at its core – can protect all of humanity and get our societies safely running again. A bold international agreement cannot wait.

Signed,

Notes

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al Member of WLA Club de Madrid
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa Member of Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC)
Retrieved from "https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Document:Uniting_Behind_A_People’s_Vaccine_Against_COVID-19&oldid=247701"