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How Cigarette Companies Use Free Trade Deals To Sell To Women And Kids
Author: Tim Fernholz, Quartz
[G]lobal tobacco companies have increasingly turned to developing markets to expand their business...Tobacco companies...want to make sure they can protect and expand their businesses in those markets, especially among women...Public health and...
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- Related companies: Philip Morris International
Health ministry embarks on campaign against tobacco farming [Uganda]
Author: Pascal Kwesiga, New Vision (Uganda)
The Ministry of health has engaged the civil society and local leaders to drive the campaign against tobacco farming. A principal medical officer in charge of mental health, control of substance abuse and management of neurological disorders, Dr....
Big pharma problem for HIV/AIDS [Uganda]
Author: Henry Zakumumpa, in The Independent (Uganda)
The lives of thousands of Ugandans enrolled on HIV treatment hang in the balance after an application by poor countries to extend the deadline for manufacture of generic AIDS drugs was rejected by the World Trade Organization (WTO)...Over 90% of HIV...
UN Human Rights Council Adopts Resolution Promoting Medicines Access
Author: Intellectual Property Watch
The United Nations Human Rights Council today adopted a resolution urging governments to encourage technology development and transfer and to apply intellectual property rights measures in ways that avoid creating barriers to trade in “affordable,...
[PDF] A History of Neglect. UK Export Finance and Human rights
Author: Amnesty International UK
[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited UK Export Finance (UKEF) to respond. UKEF's response is provided below] [The] eagerness [of UKEF] to help secure new overseas contracts for British companies often comes at the expense of human...
Public Lecture - Roundtable: The Place of Social Rights in International Law
Author: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Launch of the book « Droit International Social ». The conference will be held in French and English...
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Novartis Defeat Revives Debate Over Patents' Life Span [India]
Author: Lisa Shuchman, Corporate Counsel [USA]
When India's Supreme Court ruled this week that Novartis AG's cancer drug Gleevec was not sufficiently innovative to merit a patent, public health advocates lauded the decision, which they said would give more people access to needed drugs, and Big...
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- Related companies: Novartis
Author: Julien Bouissou, Le Monde
C'est un nouveau coup dur pour l'industrie pharmaceutique en Inde, et une nouvelle étape vers un accès plus large des populations défavorisées aux médicaments génériques. En rejetant…la demande de brevet déposée par…Novartis sur le Glivec…la Cour...
- Related stories: India: Supreme Court rejects Novartis' patent application for new version of cancer drug Glivec; NGOs say ruling will increase access to medicines
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- Related companies: Bayer