Human Rights Council

8 March 2017 – Statement of Portugal – HRC 34 – Panel on Access to Medicines

Access to Medicines, Intellectual Property Rights / By / March 15, 2018

On 8 March 2017, the Permanent Representative of Portugal, Ambassador Pedro Nuno Bártolo, made a powerful intervention at the Human Rights Council’s panel discussion on access to medicines. Portugal stressed that access to medicines is a fundamental element of the right to health and highlighted how the high prices of hepatitis C and cancer medicines …

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8 March 2017 – Statement of the European Union – HRC 34 – Panel on Access to Medicines

Access to Medicines, Intellectual Property Rights / By / March 15, 2018

On 8 March 2017, the European Union (EU) delivered the following statement to the Human Rights Council’s panel discussion on Access to Medicines. As the Human Right Council imposed a strict two minute limit on interventions, the EU was not able to raise the following two questions contained at the end of its intervention. I …

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