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114 World Leaders including 19 Nobel Laureates, 36 former Chief of State and Governments, Political Leaders, Artistes, International NGOs and Institutions have signed a call initiated by Yunus Centre to declare COVID-19 Vaccines as a global common good.

The unified appeal is urging action from governments, foundations, philanthropists and social businesses to come forward to produce and/or distribute the vaccines all over the world for free. We invite all social, political, and health entities to re-affirm our collective responsibility for the protection of ALL vulnerable persons without any discrimination whatsoever.

The COVID-19 pandemic is clearly exposing the strength and weaknesses of healthcare systems in every country and highlights the obstacles and inequities in gaining access to healthcare. The effectiveness of the upcoming vaccination campaign will depend on its universality.

The signatories are pleading to all world leaders including the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Director General of the World Health Organization, religious leaders, social and moral leaders, leaders of research laboratories and pharmaceutical companies and the media to join hands and ensure that in the case of a Covid-19 vaccine, we have a global consensus that it must be deployed as a global common good.

We invite everyone to join the pledge at  VACCINECOMMONGOOD.ORG  . 

I hope your esteemed institution will do its best to spread this message.

Sincerely,

Professor Muhammad Yunus

PLEDGE
NOW WWW.VACCINECOMMONGOOD.ORG

Declare COVID-19 Vaccine A Global Common Good Now

We, the undersigned, make this joint appeal to all the global leaders, international organizations, and governments to adopt legal measures and make official statements declaring COVID-19 vaccines as a Global Common Good, free from any patent right belonging to anyone. The signatories below include Nobel Laureates and Nobel Laureates Organizations, civil society leaders, and world moral leaders from all over the globe.

1. RIGHT TO THE FREE ACCESS TO THE VACCINE FOR ALL
Our right to health can be guaranteed only by our duty to health, both on an individual and collective level. As a priority, there is a need for our conceptual recognition, and actual translation into action, of our responsibilities.  As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc across Mother Earth, there is an explosion of research activities and clinical trials to find cures and vaccines. Indeed, everyone converges on the idea that ultimately the only way to definitively eradicate the pandemic is to have a vaccine that can be administered to all the inhabitants of the planet, urban or rural, men or women, living in rich or poor countries.


The pandemic clearly exposes the strengths and weaknesses of healthcare systems in different countries, as well as the obstacles and inequities of access to healthcare. The effectiveness of the upcoming vaccination campaign will depend on its universality.


Governments, foundations, international financial organizations like the World Bank and the regional development banks should work out details of how to make the vaccines available free of cost.


We appeal to governments, foundations, charity organizations, philanthropist individuals, and social businesses (that is, businesses which are created to solve people`s problems without taking any personal profit out of them) to come forward to produce and/or distribute the vaccines all over the world. 


We invite all social, political, and health entities to re-affirm our collective responsibility for the protection of all vulnerable persons related to poverty, discrimination, gender, illness, loss of autonomy or functionality, or age.

2. TRANSPARENCY IN DETERMINING FAIR RETURN ON RESEARCH INVESTMENTS
The research for a vaccine is a long process. The estimated time for development of a COVID-19 vaccine is about 18 months or less, which would be an absolute speed record.


This research needs immense economic investments. Many private sector research laboratories who are engaged in the vaccine research will be expecting a return on their investments. We must work out an unambiguous procedure to determine what would be a fair level of this return in exchange for putting the vaccine in the public domain. For this reason, information issued by the private sector, scientists, and authorities, needs to be timely, accurate, clear, complete, and transparent. The research results should be in the public domain, making it available to any production facility that pledges to operate under strict international regulatory supervision and only to such facilities.

3. ACTION PLAN
We urge the World Health Organization to design a World Action Plan on COVID-19 vaccine. We appeal to them to set up an international committee responsible for monitoring the vaccine research and to assure equal access to the vaccine for all countries and all people within a publicly announced pre-determined time frame.


We appeal to all world leaders, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Director General of the World Health Organization, religious leaders, social leaders, moral leaders, leaders of  research laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, and media leaders to join hands to ensure that in the case of COVID-19 vaccine we have a global consensus for free universal access, far ahead of its actual production and distribution.

LIST OF PERSONALITIES WHO SIGNED THE PLEDGE


NOBEL LAUREATES
1 Muhammad Yunus 2006 Nobel Peace Laureate
2 Máiread Maguire 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate  
3 Professor Adolfo Perez Esquivel 1980 Nobel Peace Laureate
4 Lech Wa³êsa 1983 Nobel Peace Laureate, Former President of Poland
5 Archbishop Desmond Tutu 1984 Nobel Peace Laureate
6 Mikhail Gorbachev 1990 Nobel Peace Laureate, President of the Soviet Union
7 Rigoberta Menchu 1992 Nobel Peace laureate
8 Edmond Henri Fischer 1992 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
9 Sir Richard J. Roberts 1993 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
10 José Ramos Horta 1996 Nobel Peace Laureate  
11 Jody Williams 1997 Nobel Peace Laureate
12 Shirin Ebadi 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate
13 Elizabeth Blackburn 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
14 Tawakkol Karman 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate
15 Leymah Gbowee 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate
16 Malala Yousafzai 2014 Nobel Peace Laureate
17 Kailash Satyarthi 2014 Nobel Peace Laureate
18 Nadia Murad Basee Taha 2018 Nobel Peace Laureate

19 Denis Mukwege 2018 Nobel Peace Laureate


FORMER PRESIDENTS
20 Emil Constantinescu President of Romania 1996-2000
21 Ameenah Gurib-Fakim President of Mauritius 2015-2018
22 Tarja Halonen President of Finland 2000-2012
23 Mladen Ivanic President of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2014-2018
24 Gjorge Ivanov President of North Macedonia 2009-2019
25 Ivo Josipovic President of Croatia 2010-2015
26 Aleksandr Kwasniewski President of Poland 1995-2005
27 Petru Lucinschi President of Moldova 1997-2001
28 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva President of Brazil 2003-2011
29 Rexhep Meidani President of Albania 1997-2002
30 Bujar Nishani President of Albania 2012-2017

31 Roza Otunbayeva, President of Kyrgyzstan 2010-2011
32 Rosen Plevneliev President of Bulgaria 2012-2017
33 Romano Prodi President of EU Commission 1999-2004
and Italian Prime Minister of Italy 1996-1998, 2006-2008
34 Vicente Fox Quesada President of Mexico 2000-2006
35 Mary Robinson President of Ireland, 1990-97
36 Rosalia Arteaga Serrano President of Ecuador 1997
37 Petar Stoyanov President of Bulgaria 1997-2002
38 Vaira Vike-Freiberga President of Latvia 1999-2007
39 Filip Vujanovic President of Montenegro 2003-2018


FORMER PRIME MINISTERS
40 Shaukat Aziz Prime Minister of Pakistan 2004-2007
41 Marek Belka Prime Minister of Poland 2004-2005
42 Sali Berisha Prime Minister of Albania 2005-2013, President 1992-97
43 Gordon Brown Prime Minister of UK 2007-2010
44 Helen Clark Prime Minister of New Zealand 1999-2008
45 Mirko Cvetkovic Prime Minister of Serbia 2008-2012
46 Jan Fisher Prime Minister of the Czech Republic 2009-2010
47 Chiril Gaburici Prime Minister of Moldova 2015
48 Jadranka Kosor Prime Minister of Croatia 2009-2011

49 Zlatko Lagumdzija, Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2001-2002

50 Yves Leterme Prime Minister of Belgium 2008, 2009-2011

51 Peter Medgyessy Prime Minister of Hungary 2002-2004
52 Mahathir Mohamad Prime Minister of Malaysia 1981-2003, 2018-2020
53 Djoomart Otorbaev Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan 2014-2015
54 Oscar Ribas Reig Prime Minister of Andorra 1982-84; 1990-94
55 Eka Tkeshelashvili Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia 2010-2012


ARTISTES & SOCIAL ACTIVISTS
56 Shabana Azmi Actor and Human Rights Activist
57 Andrea Bocelli Tenor, Singer-Songwriter  
58 Bono Singer, Activist
59 Lily Cole Actress, Activist
60 George Clooney Actor, Human Rights Activist
61 Richard Curtis UN SDG Advocate, Founder, Project Everyone
62 Matt Damon Filmmaker & Co-founder Water.org & WaterEquity
63 Julian Morris, Actor
64 Sharon Stone Actress, Human Rights Activist    
65 Jimmy Wales Founder, Wikipedia
66 Forest Whitaker Actor, Founder, Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative

BUSINESS LEADERS
67 Sir Richard Branson Founder, Virgin Group
68 Emmanuel Faber Chief Executive Officer, Danone
69 Mo Ibrahim Philanthropist, Founder of Mo Ibrahim Foundation
70 Paul Polman Co-founder & Chair, IMAGINE, Former CEO, Unilever
71 Azim Premji Chairman, Wipro Limited
72 Narayana Murthy Co-Founder, Infosys
73 Ratan Tata Former Chairman of Tata Sons and Tata Group


POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS, LEADERS OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, ACTIVISTS & ACADEMICS

74 Father Giulio Albanese Journalist and Writer
75 Abdulaziz Altwaijri Former Director General, ISESCO
76 Jean Baderschneider Chair of the Board of Directors, Global Fund to End Modern Slavery
77 Thomas Bach President, International Olympic Committee (IOC)
78 Luigino Bruni Professor, Economics, Libera Universita Maria Ss. Assunta (LUMSA)
79 Margaret Chan President, Boao Global Health Forum
80 James Chau International Broadcaster and Host of The China Current

81 Herman de Croo, Honorary Speaker of the House, 1999-2007, Belgium
82 Susan M. Elliott President and CEO, National Committee on American Foreign Policy
83 HRH Prince Turki bin Faisal Chairman, King Faisal Foundation's Center for Research and Islamic Studies
84 Father Enzo Fortunato Spokesperson of the Sacred Convent and Papal Basilica of Assisi
85 Father Mauro Gambetti Custodian of the Papal Basilica and Sacred Convent of Assisi

86 Rahul         Gandhi, Indian National Congress Member of Parliament, India

87 Ron Garan Former Astronaut
88 Nathalie de Gaulle Co-Founder & President NB-INOV
89 Ann Hidalgo Mayor of Paris
90 Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu Former Secretary General, OIC
91 Garry Jacobs CEO, President World Academy of Art and Sciences

92 David Jones, Co-Founder, One Young World, Founder, You&Mr. Jones

93 Adeeba Kamarulzaman President-elect, International AIDS Society
94 Mats Karlsson Vice President of the World Bank 1999-2002
95 Kerry Kennedy President, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
96 Vanessa Kerry Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Founder, Seed Global Health
97 Salman Khan Founder, Khan Academy
98 Guilherme Leal Co-Founder, Natura Cosmeticos, B Team Leader
99 Sharon Lewin Director, The Peter Doherty Institute of Infection & Immunity, University of Melbourne
100 Justin Yifu Lin Former Vice President of the World Bank
101 Raffaele Lomonaco Professor of Economics of the Pontifical Lateran University

102Graca Machel, Founder, Graca Machel Trust and Foundation for Community Development
103 Marina Mahathir Writer, Human Rights Activist

104Amre Moussa, Secretary General of the Arab League 2000-2011, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt 1991-2002
105 Alaa   Murabit UN SDG Advocate, The Voice of Libyan Women
106 Rovshan Muradov Secretary General, Nizami Ganjavi International Center
107 Edward Ndopu UN SDG Advocate, Founder, Beyond Zero
108 Samia Nkrumah President of Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Centre
109 Elsa Papademetriou Former Vice President of the Hellenic Parliament
110 Jeffrey Sachs UN SDG Advocate, Director, Earth Institute, Columbia University  
111Ismail Serageldin Co-Chair Nizami Ganjavi International Center
112 Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO
113 Gary White CEO & Co-founder, Water.org & WaterEquity
114 Nicola Zingaretti Chairman & Leader of the Italian Democratic Party