“The Pandemic is Most Certainly Not Over”: Belgium’s Obligation to Support a Global Public Good Approach to COVID-19 Diagnostics, Vaccines and Therapeutics
September 2022
- Theme: CEDAW, COVID-19, Macroeconomics, Trade Justice.
- Type: Submission.
- Region/Country: Belgium, Global.
- Language: English.
Shadow report submitted to the 83rd CEDAW session by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), IWRAW Asia Pacific and Third World Network (TWN), on behalf of the Feminists for a People’s Vaccine campaign. Connecting the current intellectual property approach adopted by Belgium and the European Union to severe and disproportionate impacts on the right to health of women and girls in developing and least developed countries, this 19-page document outlines rights violations under articles of CEDAW.