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Omicron variant: UK government created the conditions for variant to emerge26 November 2021
Reacting to news that the WHO will name B.1.1.529 the ‘Omicron variant’, Tim Bierley, pharma campaigner at Global Justice Now, said: “The UK has actively prevented low and middle-income countries […]
Human rights advocates eye legal action against UK, Canadian, German, and Norwegian governments over global COVID vaccine inequality25 November 2021
Coordinated legal efforts call on “recalcitrant” governments to support proposed waiver of COVID-related intellectual property monopolies at the WTO Human rights lawyers have threatened legal action against the German, Norwegian, […]
Pfizer’s £2 billion NHS rip-off could pay for nurses’ pay rise SIX TIMES over23 November 2021
Pfizer has extracted nearly £2 billion in profits from the NHS for its vaccine, more than six times the total amount the government has spent on a pay rise for […]
COP26: 1.5-degree target “on life support” with “hollowed-out” agreement13 November 2021
Next COP must be “a reckoning” for rich countries and fossil fuel companies, campaigners say Pledges “hang by a thread” because of failure to look at the global trade system […]
AstraZeneca profit-pricing shows ‘utter folly’ of handing over patent for Oxford vaccine12 November 2021
Reacting to news that AstraZeneca will begin charging a for-profit price for its publicly-funded vaccine, Nick Dearden, Director of Global Justice Now, said: “AstraZeneca’s decision to start profiting from Oxford […]
COP26: Boris Johnson’s climate finance announcement ‘nowhere near enough’1 November 2021
Reacting to Boris Johnson’s announcement of an extra £1bn a year of climate finance, Daniel Willis, climate campaigner at Global Justice Now, said: Proper provision of climate finance is crucial […]
‘Inward-looking’ Budget will leave little faith in UK at COP26, campaigners say27 October 2021
Reacting to the Chancellor’s Budget speech, Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now, said: “All the Chancellor has confirmed today is that he is incapable of looking beyond the UK’s […]
Nicola Sturgeon urged to speak out as ‘shameful’ stats reveal UK Government has delivered less than 10% of promised vaccine doses to low income countries21 October 2021
First Minister urged to protect lives globally and in Scotland by championing real solutions to vaccine crisis Pharmaceutical companies and rich nations are delivering just one in seven of the […]
UK has vaccinated more people than 132 countries combined12 October 2021
Global Justice Now to carry coffins down Whitehall to highlight global Covid-19 deaths as UK enters make-or-break talks aimed to boost global vaccinations The UK has vaccinated more people than […]
Ludovico Caminati Engström
On the streets of Glasgow – my COP26 highlights
Together with almost 20 activists from the Stirling group we joined three days of protests against the “Global North greenwash festival” as described by Greta Thunberg, often referred to as […]
Daniel Willis
Faulty finance and slow progress at COP26
Amidst a chaotic week and a bit of talks and pledges, the UK’s presidency of COP26 has so far frustrated civil society and failed to live up to global south […]
Nick Dearden
The climate justice movement is on the rise at COP26
I’ve been in Glasgow all week, and already one thing is clear to me: world leaders cannot ignore us any longer. We’ve shifted the dial on climate justice. While governments […]
Daniel Willis
The UK is a long way short of paying its ‘fair share’ of climate finance at COP26
Boris Johnson has called on rich countries to pledge more climate finance at COP26. But the UK is a long way short of paying its own fair share. At last […]
Global Justice Now
The good, the bad and the dangerous: What to expect from COP26
As world leaders prepare to descend on Glasgow, here’s Global Justice Now’s guide to the summit. Climate politics at COPs is complex and the stakes are high. After almost three […]
Meena Raman
COP26: A history of broken promises and shifting goalposts
Ever since the world agreed a fragile framework to tackle climate change in the 1990s, rich countries have been in denial about their responsibility for causing the problem, and what […]
Attac Network
Vaccine apartheid: We cannot allow global healthcare to be dictated by the market
Statement by the European ATTAC Network, which Global Justice Now is part of, ahead of a meeting of the World Trade Organisation’s intellectual property council. Vaccine apartheid shows that we […]
Dorothy Grace Guerrero
Vaccine apartheid, a strategy of social murder
The organisation of our economies has driven two of the biggest global crises the world faces: pandemics, of which Covid-19 will not be the last, and the climate and ecological […]
Daniel Willis
There is no climate justice without debt justice
Although it might not seem obvious, the global debt system and climate change are inextricably linked, creating a vicious cycle of financial and ecological crises across the global south.
