In this letter, SOMO – together with a group of NGOs – urge the European Commission to drop provisions that protect intellectual property in the economic agreement (CEPA) between Indonesia-EU. They fear that the so called TRIPS-PLUS provisions will have disastrous consequences for access to medicines in Indonesia.
This week, the Dutch Senate approved CETA, the trade agreement between the European Union and Canada, with a very small majority (40 for; 35 against). This means that the Dutch parliament has ratified the trade…
SOMO, together with a broad coalition, have sent a letter to health attachés and to the Health Commissioner of the European Union urging them to reconsider crucial aspects of the recently launched Health Emergency Preparedness…
As some Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors are considering using their Official Development Aid (ODA) budgets to cover expenditures related to Covid-19 vaccines, the work of the DAC is critical to ensure that ODA eligibility…
Vaccine manufacturer Moderna is employing tax avoidance structures to shift its profits to Switzerland and the US state of Delaware, research by SOMO in cooperation with Wemos. The European Union ordered $10.3 billion worth of…
In the final days of 2020, the European Union and China reached a political agreement on the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI). Friends and foes alike were taken by surprise by the sudden rush to…
