Brazil: Support Wider Vaccine Production at WTO

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image The Covid-19 vaccine is administered to a health professional in Sao Paulo, Brasil on January 20, 2021. © 2021 Agência Brasil / Rovena Rosa (São Paulo, March 9, 2021) - Brazil should support a proposal at an upcoming meeting of a key World Trade Organization (WTO) council to temporarily waive some intellectual property rights until widespread Covid-19 vaccination is in place globally, Human Rights Watch said today. The waiver is crucial to secure faster universal and equitable access worldwide to Covid-19 vaccines, a move that could potentially save thousands of…

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