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I was given 3 minutes to tell Asian and European leaders why we need profound change

Dorothy Grace Guerrero
Dorothy Grace Guerrero

19 October 2018
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At the Asia-Europe Meeting 12 of national leaders in Brussels on 18 October 2018, civil society was given 3 minutes to present the outcomes of the 12th Asia-Europe People's Forum (AEPF), which took place in Ghent at the start of this month.

We need the people's prescription to fix pharma

Radhika Patel

19 October 2018
Pharma

Our new report ‘The people’s prescription: Re-imagining health innovation to deliver public value’ reveals how pharmaceutical companies not only charge unaffordable prices for medicines, they are also not delivering the drugs we need. It’s a scandal of our time but there are alternatives to a system that puts profits above public need. 

We have come to Geneva from 40 countries to demand an end to corporate impunity

Dorothy Grace Guerrero
Dorothy Grace Guerrero

15 October 2018
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Global Justice Now is joining the Week of People’s Mobilisation from 13 to 20 October in Geneva. It has been organised at the same time as the fourth session of an intergovernmental working group of the UN Human Rights Council, which is mandated to develop a UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises with respect to human rights. The battle for this long-sought treaty is entering a decisive stage.

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69 of the richest 100 entities on the planet are corporations, not governments, figures show

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  • 157 of top 200 economic entities by revenue are corporations not countries
  • Top 10 corporate revenues exceed $3 trillion
  • British government urged to support Binding Treaty to hold corporations to account at UN in Geneva this week

The health innovation system is ‘broken’ and failing patients

Pharma

NHS patients are being let down by a global health innovation system which fails to deliver the treatments they need at prices that government can afford, according to a new report led by Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), in collaboration with STOPAIDS, Global Justice Now and Just Treatment.

MPs must stop 'informing' on constituents to Home Office, say migrant groups

Migration

15 leading organisations working with migrants have today written to the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, to express deep concern over hundreds of cases of MPs reporting their constituents to the Home Office for immigration crime.