Digital Sequence Information and the lack of clarity about it is a prime bugbear in global biodiversity negotiations. Join us for our first Biodiversity Confab with Vibha Varshney & Nithin Ramakrishnan where they discuss the science and politics, the conundrum of access and benefit

Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Anand Grover, explains that such high prices are not supported by the real costs of production. 🧵5/6

Even Swiss civil society is echoing #BewareOfMEEPA 🇨🇭Prominent Swiss CSOs, like Public Eye, urged their govt to stop pushing Malaysia into IP rules that threaten access to medicines & seeds “Switzerland imperils the rights to food and health” publiceye.ch/en/news/detail…

FTA between Malaysia & EFTA doubles down on TRIPS-Plus measures, only benefiting Big Pharma. Why should Malaysia pay more for medicines to protect Pharma's profit, Anwar Ibrahim Tengku Zafrul 🇲🇾 Dzulkefly Ahmad? Reject TRIPS-Plus. See Consumers Association Penang's analysis▶️ tinyurl.com/3ds9md43

#BewareOfMeepa Don't trade away our health & seed sovereignty, Anwar Ibrahim MITI Malaysia Dzulkefly Ahmad. Deal with EFTA will cause: 💊Expensive medicines to stay expensive for longer 🌱Seed prices to increase 🇲🇾Put Malaysian farmers at risk It's a national disaster in the making!

Leaked text of Malaysia’s trade deal with EFTA reveals secret push for TRIPS-plus. You must reject them! This will lock Malaysia into expanded patent monopolies & strip away critical legal flexibilities under WTO rules. See Consumers Association Penang's analysis▶️tinyurl.com/3ds9md43

Even Swiss civil society is echoing #BewareOfMEEPA Prominent Swiss CSOs, like Public Eye, urged their govt to stop pushing Malaysia into IP rules that threaten Malaysians' health & seeds. “Switzerland imperils the rights to food and health”▶️ publiceye.ch/en/news/detail…

The #Malaysia-#EFTA economic partnership agreement would tie Malaysia’s hands on access to #medicines, says new analysis bilaterals.org/?malaysia-efta…

10/10. 👏 Vice speaks at the Third World Network (TWN) side event: "An assessment of the Baku outcomes and challenges on the road to Belem" moderated by Meena Raman. 🔗 Find out more about TWN here: twn.my Read TWN’s daily briefings from the

Global North refuses to tango & the Global South is left alone on the dance floor of multilateralism. At a time when anyone who can hear the music knows that these are not songs playing, they are emergency sirens of a climate collapse - DCJ opening press con at #SB62 #TwoToTango

📘 New book! TWN's new book exposes how Japan pushes UPOV 1991, a rigid IP regime built for industrial farming, to expand its and other developed nations' seed market. 🔎Who’s behind this agenda and why? Learn here🔗 shorturl.at/dFNus

Thailand: “Ever-greening” patents – the case of #tuberculosis drug #Bedaquiline. Ever-greening, a tactic used by pharma giants to extend drug monopolies, limits access to essential medicines and burdens patent examiners. #IP #Health ➡️twn.my/title2/intelle…

New 📖: The East Asia Plant Variety Protection Forum & #UPOV 1991: Implications for Seed Systems in Southeast Asia. SEA nations face pressure to adopt UPOV rules favoring rich countries, risking food security & farmers’ rights. ➡️twn.my/title2/books/E…

If you are heading to #FfD4, join us for an event on Thursday, 3 July which unpacks the complex architecture of private financing for development & what it means for human rights. for details, please see: shorturl.at/o08VT & if you want to meet up, pls get in touch!

📢 How are credit rating agencies undermining debt sustainability and the right to development? 🌍 Join our #FfD4 side event to discuss the urgent need for a public, multilateral reform of the credit rating system — one that stops penalising the Global South for crises they

A quiet battle is brewing. Legal changes snuck into a Free Trade Agreement Malaysia signed could hand seed systems control to big corporations, hurting farmers, food prices & seed sovereignty. Yoke Ling, director of TWN, explains what’s at stake. bfm.my/content/podcas…