The UK’s Extraterritorial Obligations and the Right to Health in a Time of Polycrisis
August 2024
- Theme: COVID-19, ICERD, Macroeconomics, Peace and Conflict, Refugees and Asylum Seekers.
- Type: Report, Submission.
- Region/Country: Palestine, United Kingdom.
- Language: English.
This report was submitted on behalf of the Feminists for a People’s Vaccine Campaign (FPV), of which IWRAW Asia Pacific is a member, and the Campaign Against Racism (CAR), to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD Committee) in advance of its consideration of the 18th and 19th periodic reports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It focuses on the right to health in the context of the ongoing ‘post’-pandemic crisis regarding access to medicines; a growing global debt crisis; and the crisis of impunity in relation to the Palestinian genocide. It asks the CERD Committee to use its powers under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) to strongly recommend that the UK remove intellectual property barriers to equitable access to medicines, treatments and diagnostics; protect human rights in its debt restructuring and negotiations actions; and fulfil its international human rights obligations with respect to the ongoing Palestinian genocide.