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Résumé

Health is recognized as an important development indicator. Health is also recognized as one of the key Human Rights under the International Covenant on Economic Social and cultural Rights (ICESCR). However, the current political economic structures especially the international law related to trade, investment and intellectual property rights, prevent the realization of right to health. These international regimes basically incapacitate developing countries from fulfilling its international obligations on right to health. In short the policy space for countries to ensure supply of affordable medicine is very little. The current international engagements of developed countries in the area of medicine are primarily aiming to protect the interest of pharmaceutical transnational corporations. The people of developed countries are not benefiting from this approach especially during the current austerity era. Since medicine is an essential component for the realization of right to health there is a need to reconfigure the approach to medicine from the realist concept of power.

Kappoori Madhavan Gopakumar

Kappoori Madhavan Gopakumar is legal advisor and senior researcher with the Third World Network (TWN). TWN is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that carries out policy research and advocacy on issues around trade and development, with a focus on third world countries. He has done his M. Phil in international law from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, and LL.M in Human Rights and IPR from Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Sweden. Since 1997, he has been conducting research and advocacy on implications of intellectual property rights and access to medicines. He has coauthored the book "Unpacking the Issue of Counterfeit Medicines".

Intervenant(s)

Kappoori Madhavan Gopakumar

Legal Adviser, Third World Network (Inde)