The U.S. Congress prioritizes patent exemptions for Wall Street business methods. Why not for lifesaving medicines?
Posts Tagged “EU”
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Posted in: Asia, Health, United States
Topics: access to medicines, Asia, Brett Davidson, Els Torreele, EU, Free Trade Agreement, harm reduction, Hepatitis C, Hillary Clinton, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Pacific rim, patents, pharmaceuticals, public health, Wall Street
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The Joint Africa-EU Strategy is trying to shift the relationship between the two continents from one of donor and recipient to equal participation and representation, but is it working?
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Governance & Accountability
Topics: African Union, economic development, EU, Joint Africa-EU Strategy, Marta Martinelli, Rachel Hart
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Moldova voted against the recent UN resolution supporting LGBT rights, an action that undercuts its aspirations to move towards closer relations and possible membership of the European Union.
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Macedonia's tortured relations with the European Union are due for an overhaul following the recent elections.
Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability
Topics: Balkans, EU, EU membership, European Union, Goran Buldioski, Macedonia, Macedonian elections, Neda Korunovska, Nikola Gruevski
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In Hungary, Roma women are three times more likely to die from cancer as their non-Roma counterparts. Yet 90 percent of these cases could be cured if detected in time and treated appropriately.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: Bernard Rorke, breast cancer, cancer, EU, Europe, Hungary, Roma, Roma health, women's health
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Ahead of a visit from Barack Obama, Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski has signed an amendment to his country's drug law.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: drug policy, drug treatment, drug users, EU, global drug policy, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Poland, war on drugs
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Azerbaijan's victory in the Eurovision song contest brings welcome attention to this often-ignored country. But that success comes at a time when the government has been clamping down on the right of ordinary people to make their voices heard.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Governance & Accountability, Media & Arts, Rights & Justice
Topics: Azerbaijan, Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, Central Asia, Elnur Majidi, EU, European Parliament, European Union, Eurovision, freedom of expression, Jabbar Savalan, Jacqueline Hale, media independence, press freedom, video
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As Kinshasa prepares to vote in the second presidential elections since the end of years of war, debate is raging in Brussels on whether the European Union should support much-needed election monitoring.
Posted in: Africa, Europe, Governance & Accountability
Topics: Congo, democracy, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, election, election monitoring, EU, European Union, Marta Martinelli
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The deep divisions between Ankara and Paris may undermine the European Union's hopes for the southern Mediterranean.
Posted in: Europe, Governance & Accountability
Topics: EU, European Commission, Heather Grabbe, NATO, Sinan Ulgen, Turkey
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The European Union, at long last, is taking a significant step to improve the lives of Europe’s millions of Roma. Rather than proposing a grand plan for EU-level action, the European Commission’s recently released “EU framework for national Roma integration strategies up to 2020” calls on...
Posted in: Europe, Rights & Justice
Topics: EU, European Commission, Heather Grabbe, Kori Udovicki, Roma