<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Basma Eid</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:beid@escr-net.org">beid@escr-net.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><u></u>
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<td class="m_3142887409069822338long-text m_3142887409069822338links-color" style="text-align:left;font-size:14px;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:#000" align="left"><p style="Margin:1em 0px">Almost a year and half ago, ESCR-Net members came together to publish a <a href="https://escr-net.cividesk.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=18576&qid=512498" rel="nofollow" style="color:#3f3f3f;color:#c00000;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Global Call to Action in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, </a>demanding a just response to the pandemic that centers the well being of our communities and our planet.</p><p style="Margin:1em 0px"> Unfortunately, a year and half later, we are
witnessing and experiencing how this global health emergency continues to deepen inequalities and intensify global injustices.</p><p style="Margin:1em 0px"> However, our members along with our movement allies, continue to elevate our voices in asserting our fundamental right to health and demanding an end the corporate capture of our healthcare systems <a href="https://escr-net.cividesk.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=18577&qid=512498" rel="nofollow" style="color:#3f3f3f;color:#c00000;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">(check out our comic!</a>) In April, we appealed to UN Special Procedures Mandate Holders to take <a href="https://escr-net.cividesk.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=18578&qid=512498" rel="nofollow" style="color:#3f3f3f;color:#c00000;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">urgent action</a> to secure universal and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines resulting in<a href="https://escr-net.cividesk.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=18579&qid=512498" rel="nofollow" style="color:#3f3f3f;color:#c00000;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"> the issuing of 44 letters to states and pharmaceuticals. </a> Currently, our members and allies are working on multiple strands of legal advocacy to bring human rights accountability for discriminatory global vaccine inequity and prolongation of the pandemic, <a href="https://escr-net.cividesk.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=18580&qid=512498" rel="nofollow" style="color:#3f3f3f;color:#c00000;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">and just brought an appeal to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)</a>.</p><p style="Margin:1em 0px"> Collectively we continue to make strides in demanding that the World Trade Organization and its members stop blocking the necessary TRIPS Waiver on COVID-19 vaccines and other therapies.</p><p style="Margin:1em 0px">In just a couple weeks the WTO is scheduled to hold it’s 12th Ministerial Conference, the highest decision making body of the WTO, where we expect they will continue with business as usual, ignoring the dire demands for health justice. However, our communities refuse to have their fundamental rights to life and health be
robbed by an institution that puts profits before people!</p><h2><span style="text-decoration:underline">People Over Patents: Join Us to Take Collective Action at the WTO Ministerial! </span></h2><h2>Here's how:</h2><h3>1. Join the Global Rally on <b>November 23, 2021</b> to demand the WTO stop trading with our lives and pass the critical TRIPS waiver on life-saving vaccines and medicines. Register <a href="https://escr-net.cividesk.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=18582&qid=512498" rel="nofollow" style="color:#3f3f3f;color:#c00000;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</h3><p style="Margin:1em 0px">We will amplify the voices of our communities
in Colombia, Palestine, South Africa, India, Thailand, Honduras, Kenya, Pakistan, Uganda, Mexico, and elsewhere who have been most affected by the inequalities exacerbated by the WTO. Legal experts, human rights activists, and public health advocates also will lay out various advocacy actions undertaken by several international coalitions.</p><h3> 2. Use our Social Media toolkit to keep the pressure on the WTO!<br></h3><h4><a href="https://escr-net.cividesk.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=18604&qid=512498" rel="nofollow" style="color:#3f3f3f;color:#c00000;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">>>Go to the social media kit (In English and Spanish. Please let us know if you require it in French and/or
Arabic) </a></h4><p style="Margin:1em 0px"> While the WTO may not welcome our presence in their closed-door meetings, together we can ensure that our voices will reverberate loudly throughout their negotiation chambers.</p><p style="Margin:1em 0px"> </p><h3 style="text-align:center"><b>WTO: DON’T TRADE WITH OUR LIVES</b></h3><h3 style="text-align:center"><i>An online global rally to free the vaccine</i></h3><h3 style="text-align:center">Nov 23, 20219:00-11:00 NY <a href="https://escr-net.cividesk.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=18581&qid=512498" rel="nofollow" style="color:#3f3f3f;color:#c00000;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">(find your time zone here)</a> </h3><h3 style="text-align:center"><b>REGISTER HERE: <a href="https://escr-net.cividesk.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=18582&qid=512498" rel="nofollow" style="color:#3f3f3f;color:#c00000;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/rallywaiver</a> </b></h3><h3 style="text-align:center"><i>Interpretation available in Arabic, French, Spanish, English</i></h3><h3 style="text-align:center"><i>The rally will also be live-streamed via ESCR-Net’s facebook page (English language
only)</i></h3><h3 style="text-align:center"> </h3><h3 style="text-align:center"> #HealthOverProfit #TRIPSWaiverNow</h3><h3> </h3><p style="Margin:1em 0px"><i><span style="text-decoration:underline">This is rally is co-sponsored by:</span></i></p><p style="Margin:1em 0px"><i>ESCR-Net</i></p><p style="Margin:1em 0px"><i>Movement Law Lab - Global Network of Movement Lawyers</i></p><p style="Margin:1em 0px"><i>People’s Vaccine
Alliance</i></p><p style="Margin:1em 0px"><i>Médecins sans frontières /Doctors Without Borders</i></p><p style="Margin:1em 0px"></p><p style="Margin:1em 0px"> </p><p style="Margin:1em 0px;Margin-bottom:0px">-- <br><b>Basma Eid<br> </b>Campaign and Membership Coordinator<br> ESCR-Net - International Network for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
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