Ni Coldplay, ni Jennifer Lopez ni Elton John from London. The protagonists of the charity act of the concert and the Global Citizen event held on Saturday afternoon in New York it was the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. After six months without being seen in public, Henry of England and Meghan Markle are this week in the American city, which they arrived on Thursday, to be part of a great charity event that took place in Central Park.
The dukes took to the great stage of the event with a message of equality: “Each and every one of the people on this planet has the fundamental right to have the vaccine. [contra la covid-19]. That is the question, but that is not happening “, the duchess of sussex. “Although in this country and some others you can go almost anywhere to get vaccinated, billions of people cannot do that,” Markle said before the tens of thousands of people present in the mythical New York park. “This year it is expected that enough doses will be produced in the world to vaccinate 70% of the population in each of the countries, but it is wrong so many vaccines have only gone to 10 rich countries and not to the rest of the world” added the Duchess.
“We have everything we need to vaccinate the whole world, but the experts have told us what is happening. They tell us that there are many countries ready to produce vaccines right there, but that they are not allowed because the ultra-million dollar pharmaceutical companies do not share the formulas to make them, “he said. Henry of England. “These countries have the means, the skills and the workers to start manufacturing. They are waiting for you release intellectual property rights and transfer of vaccine technology. And by the way, many of those vaccines have been publicly funded. They are your vaccines, you have paid for them ”.
Markle asked listeners to reflect on “the millions of vaccines that have been thrown away this year.” “It’s like throwing life jackets when you’re drowning,” he said. Enrique posed, to end his speech: “Do you think we should start dealing with access to vaccine as a basic human right? If we start to make decisions from that point of view, in which each person deserves equal access to the vaccine, then we can achieve what we need together, for all ”.
With the solidarity megaconcert, held within the framework of the UN General Assembly, the richest nations of the world were required than before the COP 26, to be held in the UK in November, fulfill your promise to donate 100 billion dollars annually to find a solution to climate change. In addition, the countries of the G7 (the most developed) and the world’s wealthiest citizens who contribute 6 billion dollars to feed 41 million people at extreme risk of famine, who plant 1 billion trees to help prevent the rise in global temperature of 1.5 degrees Celsius and that at least 1 billion vaccines are distributed to the countries that need them.
Along with the one in New York, concerts were held in Paris, Los Angeles, London, Lagos, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Bombay, Seoul, Las Vegas, Johannesburg, Madrid and Buenos Aires, among others, with performances by Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Duran Duran O Femi Kuti.
