During this year’s 47th session of the Human Rights Council, the following members Mihir Mankad(Center for Economic and Social Rights), Debbi Stothard (ALTSEAN-Burma), and Allana Kembabazi (Initiative for Social and Economic Rights) delivered formal interventions on behalf of ESCR-Net.
In their interventions, members urged States to comply with their duties to provide just equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines through international cooperation and support for the TRIPS waiver. Members also called for corporate accountability beyond the voluntary United Nations Guiding Principles and urged States to support a strong international legally binding instrument to regulate corporate power and hold corporate actors accountable for their infringement upon human rights