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    How many more variants will it take until wealthy countries learn to share and pharma put people before profits? Everyone, everywhere must have the chance to get fully vaccinated in 2022. ⏰

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  2. 3: Unless drastic action is taken, Covid-19 will continue to wreak havoc for years to come and the key question now is, what will happen if large parts of the world remain unvaccinated? It has never been clearer that no one is safe until everyone is safe 🌎🌍🌏

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  3. 2: Many low-income countries are now struggling to deal with a deadly new variant while the majority of their populations haven’t even been vaccinated at all ⬇️

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  4. 1: In 2021, we hoped that international pressure would help wealthy states and big pharmaceutical companies to see sense, stop hoarding vaccines and share intellectual property rights, but greed got the better of them ⬇️

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  5. 🌈 Rung, which means ‘Rainbow’ in Thai, is facing life in prison for speaking out for freedom and democracy in Thailand. Take action now and demand her freedom: 📢 ✍️

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  6. Jan 2

    Hyderabad has been ranked as one of the most surveilled cities in the world. We need to ✊

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  7. Jan 2

    Young female activists claiming their rights? We love to see it 🙌

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  8. Jan 1

    | ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄  ̄| | THE RIGHT | | TO REST | | IS A HUMAN | | RIGHT | | ________ _| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || /   づ This is your January 1st reminder.

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  9. The world has produced some 11 billion vaccines doses but only 7% of people in low-income countries have received a single dose. Why is it that poorer countries are denied access to life-saving medicine while rich countries sit on piles of unused stock?

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  10. Even though Israel has signed up to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, it has excluded Palestinian children like Janna in the West Bank from those protections. Take action now and demand her protection: 📢 ✍️

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  11. Stop Asian Hate
Black Lives Matter
End White Supremacy
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  12. 30 Dec 2021

    Our for world leaders and pharma to ensure 2 billion vaccines reach lower income countries by end of 2021, is coming to a close. What’s the verdict? World leaders have failed 👎👎👎 Pharma has failed 👎👎👎

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  13. “Human rights are great but…”🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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  14. Archbishop Desmond Tutu refused to sit and watch injustice meted out against the people of South Africa by the apartheid government at the time when it was costly to stand up against the regime. The world has lost a dedicated human rights champion.

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  15. Your words have power. Join us. ✍️

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  16. 28 Dec 2021

    Closure of International Memorial in tramples on the memory of millions lost to the Gulag and is unacceptable assault on brave Russian human rights defenders – closure decision must be overturned.

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  17. 2/. “Shame! Shame! Shame!” Crowd gathered outside the Supreme Court building in Moscow after the decision to shut down , Russia’s oldest human rights NGO. At least one protester was taken away by police (Footage via )

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  18. It is heart-breaking, another blow to civil society in or what is left of it. Most likely it will not stop here. But if they have closed , they cannot silence you or anyone else who stand for fundamental freedom and indepndent scrutiny

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  19. Once thought to be just in the movies, killer robots are no longer a problem for the future. Drones & other advanced weapons are being developed with the ability to choose and attack their own targets – without human control. It's time to 🤖

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  20. Laws have been rewritten, prisoners of conscience released, and our supporters continue to campaign with passion to ensure people can live free from torture, harassment or unjust imprisonment. Here’s a round-up of human rights wins to celebrate in 2021 ⬇️

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