Els Torreele

Health equity will only be achieved if we allow and support LMICs via knowledge and technology sharing to develop and produce the vaccines, treatments and diagnostics they need. We're talking global health commons, not luxury commodities. #INB #PandemicAccord #PandemicTreaty

My full AJ Forum speech last week: the common enemy of humanity is THE SYSTEM that has enabled the genocide in Palestine, including the financial capital that funds it, the algorithms that obscure it and the weapons that enable it.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

Behind the UK’s “landmark” pharma deal with the US lies a costly surrender — higher drug prices, weaker safeguards, and vague promises of investment, write @ElsTorreele and Martin McKee bmj.com/content/391/bm…

🚨BREAKING 🚨: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Northern Gaza, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize after Doctors for Gaza from the Netherlands put his name forward. A Palestinian paediatrician and neonatologist, Abu Safiya was born on 21 November 1973 at Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza, his family having been kicked out from Hamama during the 1948 Nakba. Abu Safiya is in prison under Israel’s “Unlawful Combatants” law, which allows extended detention without the standard legal processes. Since his arrest, Dr. Abu Safiya has reportedly been held under harsh and abusive conditions: Denied adequate medical care. Suffering serious health issues: heart enlargement, high blood pressure, irregular heartbeat. Weight loss of over 15kgs in a short period. Solitary confinement, physical abuse including beatings and other mistreatment. HIS MISTAKE? He stayed and continued to provide medical care at Kamal Adwan when Northern Gaza was under siege. Abu Safiya has become a symbol of Gaza’s crumbling healthcare system under dire conditions. His work and arrest have drawn international attention and concern.

I don’t have anything else to say except that they’re Kidnapping humanitarian workers in international waters trying to feed starving children during a genocide. The people of Gaza have the right to aid even under occupation.

The @ProgIntl calls on movements, parties and unions to organize not just in defence of this Flotilla but in defence of humanity itself. It is our collective responsibility to break the siege and liberate Palestine from colonial occupation.

BREAKING 🇵🇸 Moments ago, the Global Sumud Flotilla (@gbsumudflotilla) was violently intercepted by Israeli Occupation Forces. Hundreds of participants — including @davidrkadler, Co-General Coordinator of the @ProgIntl — are being abducted.

6/ And still, the Majority World shares pathogen samples, data, trial sites, people—while high-income countries hoard patents, products, and power. This is not a new injustice. It’s a pattern. A colonial one.

3/ What’s missing? 🧬 Binding access to vaccines, tests, treatments 💰 Financial guarantees for prevention & R&D 💡 Mandatory tech transfer 🌍 Decentralized innovation capacity In short: everything needed to make “equity” real.

1/ The @WHO Pandemic Agreement has been finalized—but let’s be clear: this is no cause for celebration. @Afri_Alliance responds with fire: “We refuse to celebrate scraps while injustice festers.” 👇🏾 A thread.

The #EUTaxSymposium 2025 took place yesterday at the EP under the theme "Strengthening competitiveness and fairness to build prosperity" Fairness means tackling #TaxAvoidance! It simply makes no sense that the super-rich pays proportionally less tax than those on lower incomes. The super-rich must also pay their fair share. 🔴 The EU needs to introduce a minimum capital income tax! Why? How? Find out in our policy study “Tackling tax avoidance" 📕bit.ly/PSTacklingTaxA…

Another avoidable tragedy in the central Mediterranean: 6 dead, 40 missing after shipwreck near Lampedusa. Survivors reported that some of the missing had fallen off the boat in rough seas. aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/19…

The Commission remains completely deaf to the European Parliament’s call to suspend the MoU with #Rwanda and refuses to answer specific questions from MEPs on the matter. Even now that the Council is imposing sanctions. What are you waiting for, @EU_Commission? (1/2)

Zelensky under fire at the White House - © Chappatte in La Tribune Dimanche, Paris 👉 chappatte.com/en/images/zele…

The Musk Team - © Chappatte in Le Temps, Geneva 👉 chappatte.com/en/images/musk…

Gaza according to Trump - © Chappatte in La Tribune Dimanche, Paris 👉 chappatte.com/en/images/gaza…

#ElonMusk is after #ChatGPT - © Chappatte in Le Temps, Geneva - 👉chappatte.com

The Big US Break-in - © Chappatte in The @BostonGlobe via @GlobeOpinion 👉 bostonglobe.com/2025/02/13/opi…

Freedom Cartoonists shares @MediaGFMD’s urgent call for governments, multilateral institutions, and philanthropies to support #independent #media and #journalism. ➡️ gfmd.info/urgent-call-to…