Food Sovereignty and Health for All Women: How the EU Is Blocking It in the WTO

This webinar asks: Why are vaccines for COVID only available through expensive private companies? Why is the economic system not geared towards producing as many vaccines as possible for as many people worldwide? It will explain why countries in the Global South are proposing a TRIPS waiver for COVID and why the counter arguments of the EU supporting the current global trading rules are based on false assumptions. Additionally, the webinar will dig deeper into the processes and structure of the WTO, explaining how the EU is continuing to advance global rules that support European business at the expense of women’s access to health and to food.

This seventh webinar in a nine-part series entitled 'Trade Justice in the Time of COVID-19' organized by the Gender and Trade Coalition (GTC) is convened by GTC member, WIDE+, Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung, WO=MEN, Anders Handeln, and Seattle to Brussels Network. , It is moderated by Michelle R. Maziwisa (African Women’s Development and Communication Network) and includes the following speakers:

• Yuan Qiong Hu (Médecins Sans Frontières); and
• Ranja Sengupta (Third World Network).