STAT+: U.N. committee urges wealthy nations to honor human rights conventions, widen access to Covid vaccines
A United Nations committee urged wealthy nations to support a proposal before the World Trade Organization to widen access to Covid-19 vaccines over concerns that people living in poorer countries face a “pattern of unequal distribution” that mirrors historical discrimination.
In a new statement, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination noted that “the vast majority of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered in high and upper-middle-income countries and that, as of April 2022, only 15.2% of the population of low-income countries has received even one vaccine dose.”
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