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Under the guise of flexibility and compromise, the European Union's "blended model" would enable access without commensurate obligations, inadvertently legitimizing biopiracy in the WHO 🏴‍☠️ Sangeeta Shashikant & @nithinramakris analyze the proposal 🔽 twn.my/title2/intelle…

HAVANA 🇨🇺 — The Brigada Primero De Mayo, organised by Let Cuba Breathe with the support of the @ProgIntl, arrives to the Cuban capital to celebrate International Workers’ Day.

On #InternationalWorkersDay, Unions in Indonesia marched for Just Transition, a worker-led public pathway for renewable energy. They marched against privatisation of energy, which means job cuts, profit over people, and energy that doesn't serve the common people. 🎥 Watch the video #MayDay #LabourDay #WorkersDay #MayDay2026 #Solidarity #DignityOfLabor #DecentWork

Lebanon by Marc Rudin, 1989.

May Day poster from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 1974.

A poster from the Confederación de Trabajadores de México in 1947.

Mozambique, 1983.

May Day poster from South Africa, ten days before Nelson Mandela was inaugurated president in 1994.

Palestine, 1982.

Celebrating May Day and COSATU’s Living Wage Campaign in South Africa, 1989.

Countries agree to park negotiations for the WHO Pathogen Access & Benefit Sharing System, citing divergence. Developed countries have insisted on language that contradicts the Pandemic Agreement. The Africa Group has remained firm. twn.my/title2/intelle…

The new “hybrid” proposal would mix mandatory & voluntary measures for pathogen access & benefit-sharing — but critics warn it could defer real obligations to future talks. ✍️@kerrycullinan11 @WHO @adeelmkhokhar @PakUN_Geneva @DrTedros @3rdworldnetwork healthpolicy-watch.news/developed-coun…

Countries arrive at a new round of the #IGWG after a week of informals. Developed countries continued to oppose key elements that were already adopted in the Pandemic Agreement & should only be streamlined now. Full report ▶️twn.my/title2/biotk/2…

Jyotsna Singh, Indian health journalist and advocate, explains what the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing System is. PABS is being negotiated at the WHO and will shape how benefit sharing arising from pathogen sharing will happen for the next pandemic. tinyurl.com/PABSwho

@kerrycullinan11 reports on a dialogue between delegates negotiating the WHO PABS system. Malaysia, Namibia & Pakistan criticized a “hybrid” proposal from developed countries, warning it would preserve the status quo & undermine enforceability. healthpolicy-watch.news/developed-coun…

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@kerrycullinan11 reports on a public discussion among country representatives negotiating the WHO PABS system. Malaysia, Namibia and Pakistan raised criticized a “hybrid” proposal from developed countries, saying it could preserve the status quo without enforceability.

A Western delegate claims developing countries’ demands at the WHO are “excessive” and responsible for the negotiation deadlock. But these are not radical asks, they’re basic terms already applied in most databases and existing frameworks. france24.com/en/live-news/2…

Prof Timothée Poisot from the University of Montreal warns how the confusion with the concept of open science at the WHO is intentional and disguises its real agenda: biopiracy 🏴‍☠️ Sign our petition 👉fairpabs.com #fairpabs

Open science is being used to legitimize colonialism The principle is being used at @WHO to extract resources & not to defend sharing of benefits from R&D with the communities that shared the original resource. Sign the petition 🔗fairpabs.org #fairpabs