Category: Carte blanche

The east of the DR Congo remains occupied. Belgium must wake Europe up.

Depuis 2025, l’offensive de l’AFC/M23 soutenue par le Rwanda plonge l’est de la RDC dans une crise sécuritaire et humanitaire majeure :…

Climate and health are linked

On Sunday 23 October, we joined thousands of citizens in the streets of Brussels for the Climate March....

Why is the European Union strengthening its ties with a country that commits large-scale human rights violations?

On 3 October, the European Union and Israel held an Association Council for the first time in a decade....

Israel: Stop criminalising Palestinian human rights organisations

On Friday 22 October, the Israeli government announced that it was classifying six Palestinian civil society organisations as «terrorists»....

Minister De Croo, make the vaccine a public good

Mr Prime Minister, Make vaccines a public good. For several months now, organisations from the vaccine industry have been calling on you to...

Support India and South Africa's proposal to increase global vaccine production

In a joint letter, the Belgian members of the European citizens' initiative No Profit on the Pandemic are calling on the Belgian government to...

The European Commission can make COVID-19 vaccines a true universal and common good

Together with a broad coalition of European doctors, health experts, trade unions, mutual insurance companies, students and NGOs, we are supporting the European Citizens' Initiative for...

The COVID19 vaccine must be a global public good

In recent weeks, we have been inundated with promising news from the pharmaceutical sector. While we are delighted with this good news, we...

Tackling systemic racism on a global scale

The injustices suffered by poor communities and communities of colour around the world will not be corrected by a...

Health is a human right: give everyone in the world access to the coronavirus vaccine

A future COVID-19 vaccine should be accessible to all. It must not become an exclusive right for powerful states or...