Senior United Nations officials today asked to guarantee universal access to vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and consider them a public good, at the beginning of the 46th session of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN).
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At the installation of the high-level segment of the forum scheduled until March 23, the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, warned that ten countries concentrate 75 percent of the administration of the immunizing agents created to combat the pathogen that causes the Covid-19.
Global equity in access to vaccines reaffirms human rights, but nationalism on this issue denies them, highlighted Guterres at the event that is held by videoconference amid the impact of the pandemic.
The entire world is suffering from the sickness of violations of human rights.
The pandemic recovery gives us an opportunity to change that.
Now is the time to reset, reshape, and rebuild a world with human rights and dignity for all.– António Guterres (@antonioguterres)
February 22, 2021
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For his part, the president of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, Turkish Volkan Bozkir, defended the equal distribution of vaccines, converted into the hope to neutralize a virus responsible for more than 2,400,000 deaths to world scale.
In the first of the three days of the high-level segment of the Council, Guterres reiterated his call for action last year on human rights and insisted on the priorities represented by the fight against discrimination, racism and xenophobia and in favor of of gender equity.
He also pointed out that the materialization of human rights is the way to resolve tensions and guarantee peace on the planet.
On the other hand, Bozkir warned about the impact of climate change on human rights, in particular in Small Island Developing States, and reiterated the importance of multilateralism to face this and other challenges for humanity, including the current Covid pandemic. -19.
There are nine years left for the fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the UN, whose goal of leaving no one behind is closely linked to the question of respecting the human rights of everyone and everywhere, he stated.
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