COVAX mechanisms: vaccine dose sharing from national stockpile & advance market commitment (AMC)
Map of the Month 08/2021
The COVAX facility, co-led by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Gavi, and the World Health Organization (WHO), consists of several parallel mechanisms to increase rapid, fair, and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines across the world.
The Map of the Month of August visualizes the donor countries' contributions to two different structures via which the COVAX initiative obtains and distributes vaccines to the eligible 92 low- and middle-income economies.
While COVAX allows for dose sharing from a donor country's existing national supply, the COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC) mechanism raised funds from high- and low-income countries and worked with pharmaceutical partners before successful vaccine development and continues to pool financial resources so that doses can be produced and procured at scale as soon as vaccines receive regulatory approval.
Dr. Olaf Wientzek, Rosa Ann Seidler
August 30, 2021
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Joint Statements on Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Tibet and further votes at 47th UN Human Rights Council
Map of the Month 07/2021
The 47th UN Human Rights Council met in Geneva from June 21 to July 14, 2021, marking its 15th anniversary. Important joint statements were made, among other things, on the human rights situation in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Tibet or on the role of democracies. There were votes, among other things, on the human rights situation in the Ethiopian region of Tigray or on the question of whether the Council may discuss the situation of a country without its presence.
Dr. Olaf Wientzek, Sarah Ultes
July 21, 2021
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Host countries and countries of origin of forcibly displaced people 2020
Map of the Month 06/2021
At the end of 2020 82.4 Mio. people were forcibly displaced, which is more than 1% of humanity, double the figure a decade ago and almost 3 Mio. more than in 2019 - besides the border closure in more than 160 countries. With 58,3%, the amount of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) climbed a new record high. The dynamics of protracted conflicts, the effects of climate change as well as COVID-19 are increasingly interconnected and mutually reinforcing in driving displacement.
Dr. Olaf Wientzek, Sarah Ultes
June 22, 2021
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Global conceptualisation of and advocacy for an international "Pandemic Treaty"
Map of the Month 05/2021
This month, at the World Health Assembly (WHA) in May, 59 countries proposed hosting a special WHA session in November 2021 dedicated to the pandemic treaty. Already back in April 2020, Chile first put forward the idea of a pandemic treaty, which was taken up by EU Council President Charles Michel in December 2020. At the end of March 2021, 24 heads of state and government issued a call for support for the idea.
Dr. Olaf Wientzek, Rosa Ann Seidler
May 28, 2021
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Co-sponsors of the proposal for a TRIPS-Waiver for COVID-19 vaccines in the WTO
Map of the Month 04/2021
The TRIPS-Waiver is an initiative by India and South Africa to temporarily suspend patent rights in order to accelerate the global production of COVID-19 vaccines. So far more than 60 states have co-sponsored the initiative, many more are supportive of the idea. The US, Chile, Australia, Brazil, Japan, Canada, the EU, Mexico, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore and Switzerland have so far expressed scepticism. They point to existing flexibility within the TRIPS framework. The map shows the coalition of countries that are supportive of the initiative.
Dr. Olaf Wientzek, Sarah Ultes, Katarzyna Gorgol-Mäder
May 4, 2021
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Chinese resolution on the role of human rights in the UN-system
Map of the Month 03/2021
During the 46th Human Rights Council China tabled a resolution on “mutually beneficial cooperation" for the third time that seeks to advance human rights through best practices between states instead of accountability for human rights violations. Observers see this as an attempt to undermine existing human rights standards. The resolution was adopted with 26 votes in favour, 15 against and 6 abstentions. In 2020 23 states voted in favour, 16 against and 8 abstained and in 2018 28 states voted in favour while only the US voted against and 17 states abstained.
Dr. Olaf Wientzek, Sarah Ultes, Maewa Dutuit-Sauter
March 25, 2021
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International Partnership for Information and Democracy
Map of the Month 02/2021
On 24 February the Alliance for Multilateralism met once again on the margins of the 46th Human Rights Council in Geneva. Under the heading "New Frontiers for Human Rights. Pandemic Preparedness and Response", the relevance of the International Partnership for Information and Democracy was highlighted. The initiative condemns the manipulative use of fake news to undermine democracy. The signatories commit, i.a. to respect and defend freedom of opinion and freedom of the press, as well as to protect journalists.
Dr. Olaf Wientzek, Maewa Dutuit-Sauter
March 2, 2021
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Initiative to reform WHO's Emergency Preparedness
Map of the Month 01/2021
During the January 2021 executive board meeting of the WHO, 46 countries launched a draft decision, based on reports from various committees, to strengthen WHO’s global health emergency preparedness and response capacities. This is considered to be a central component of a WHO reform.
The goal is to develop a resolution at the World Health Assembly (WHA) in May 2021, the highest health-related global decision-making forum.
Dr. Olaf Wientzek, Maewa Dutuit-Sauter
January 25, 2021
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The "Map of the Month", a new series of the Multilateral Dialogue Geneva of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, uses maps to illustrate global trends and the role of Germany and Europe in the world on a monthly basis.
