Statement at the WTO TRIPS Council, June 2015 – Agenda Item: Request of Least Developed Country WTO Members with Respect to the Extension of the Transition Period for Pharmaceutical Products Universal health coverage is the central policy objective in global…
The Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+) & International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) Contact: loon_gangte@yahoo.com/+91- 9871029514 The eighth round of negotiation for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership[1] (RCEP) trade agreement is taking place in Kyoto, Japan and negotiators are meeting to discuss intellectual property provisions. That Japan…
[Belinda Townsend, Deborah Gleeson and Ruth Lopert, The Conversation, Link, (CC-BY-ND)] You’ve probably heard of the controversial and secret Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations, which have generated concerns in many quarters. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has highlighted serious…
Expanded coalition calls for urgent approval of National Policy on Intellectual Property [Lotti Rutter, Treatment Access Campaign, Link (CC-BY)] Today, patient groups and other leading health organisations in South Africa have joined the Fix the Patent Laws campaign to push…
[Joint Letter from 70 civil society groups to the Members of the World Trade Organization, PDF] As civil society organizations concerned with ensuring prompt availability of affordable medicines in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) we call on WTO Members to unconditionally…
[Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge, Link, (CC-BY)] Worldwide 150 million people are living with Hepatitis C. In countries like Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Ukraine and Russia 59 million people have Hepatitis C, and worldwide 700,000 people are dying preventable…
[Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons, Link, (CC-BY)] Today Creative Commons and 22 other organizations published a letter urging the publishing giant Elsevier to alter its newly revised policy regarding the sharing and hosting of academic articles so that it better supports…
Joint letter to Congress PDF with signatures on eff.org Dear Members of Congress: We write to you as a community representing thousands of our nation’s innovators, entrepreneurs, job-‐creators, and users to express our concern over trade agreements such as the…
Civil society project organized by IFLA, Link (CC-BY) Over 50 organisations have signed The Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age (www.thehaguedeclaration.com), which calls for immediate changes to intellectual property (IP) law and the removal of other barriers…
Dear Secretary McDonald: I am writing to urge you to use your authority as Secretary of Veterans Affairs to break the patents on Hepatitis C medications for the treatment of veterans suffering with the disease. Last December, as Chairman of…
[U.S. Copyright Office press release, Link] Register of Copyrights Maria A. Pallante today announced the launch of the U.S. Copyright Office’s Fair Use Index, which is designed to provide the public with searchable summaries of major fair use decisions. The…
Dehli Network of Positive People Press release, Link Increasing IP barriers will have severe impact on generic medicines ‘Made in India’ Indian Prime Minister Must Resist Big Pharma Pressure to Trade Away Medicines New Delhi, 29 April 2015: At a…