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No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

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Importantly, most of the commitments made under the Open COVID Pledge were designed to expire at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as determined by the World Health Organization (WHO) or January 1, 2023, whichever occurs first (the 2023 date is now in the process of being extended). Moderna’s Pledge.

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Human Rights Principles in Public Health Emergencies: From the Siracusa Principles to COVID-19 and Beyond

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Building on Siracusa to develop new human rights principles for public health emergencies Once again, the ICJ played a leading role in collaboration with the Global Health Law Consortium in drafting the PH Principles—released alongside the World Health Assembly in May 2023.

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The Case for Procurement Transparency

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By Tara Davis and Nicola Soekoe In January 2021, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) observed that the world was on the brink of a “catastrophic moral failure” if wealthier nations did not ensure the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

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Moderna’s U.K. Vaccine Patent Pledge Cut Short by Boilerplate

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As I previously discussed in October of 2020, Moderna pledged not to enforce its patents against makers of COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic. Then, in 2022, Moderna sued competing vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech. Last week, however, the U.K. Conclusion The U.K.

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Non-State Actors and Public Health Emergencies

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As showed in a policy-brief by GI-ESCR , this situation might amount to a violation of the right to health under domestic constitutional and international law.

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Conclusion to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

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The Jurisprudence of COVID-19 Substantial databases of jurisprudence relating to COVID-19 show that judicial decisions continued to proliferate on a range of issues and deep into 2023.

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Introduction to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

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Against the backdrop of this burgeoning collective amnesia, a project to articulate the human rights norms relevant to public health emergencies led to the development of the 2023 Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (the Principles).