After five years of secret negotiations directed and controlled by pharmaceutical lobbyists and drug-company-dominated trade advisory groups, the official text of the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiated by the Obama administration has been released. The text confirms critics’ worst fears –…
[Foundation for a Free Internet Infrastructure, Link, (CC-BY)] New Zealand has published the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Ongoing analysis, subject to updates: ISDS Investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) places investment tribunals above states, above democracies. This places the development…
Universities Allied for Access to Medicine Sign-On Letter signed by 750+ Academics Click here to sign As members of the international academic and scientific community, we call upon the member states of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to negotiate a…
MPP’s voluntary licensing work could benefit millions of patients in low- and middle-income countries [MPP Press Release, September 6, 2015] The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), the world’s only voluntary licensing mechanism in public health, announced an expansion of its mandate…