New CAR Report Presented to UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Report
The world is currently in an era of polycrisis, which has exacerbated existing challenges to the international human rights system and threatened many people’s right to the highest sustainable standard of physical and mental health. This report is presented on behalf of the Feminists for a People’s Vaccine Campaign (FPV) and the Campaign Against Racism (CAR) for the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD Committee) in advance of its consideration of the 18th and 19th periodic reports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). It focuses on the right to health in the context of the ongoing ‘post’-pandemic access to medicines crisis, a growing global debt crisis, and the crisis of impunity in relation to the Palestinian genocide. It asks the CERD Committee to use its powers under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) to strongly recommend that the UK remove intellectual property (IP) barriers to the equitable access to medicines, treatments and diagnostics, protect human rights in its debt restructuring and negotiations actions, and fulfil its international human rights obligations with respect to the ongoing Palestinian genocide.
