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The Medicines Patent Pool is improving access to essential medication where it’s most needed, but does it make economic sense?

The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2010 with the support of the United Nations. Its mission is to improve access to essential medicines in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). It negotiates voluntary licences with patent holders – typically, pharmaceutical companies – before granting non-exclusive and…

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‘We are being silenced’: Mongolian politicians face jail after vote calling for PM to resign

Former deputy speaker describes situation as absurd after being charged with ‘effort to unlawfully seize state power’

The Guardian - UK

Mongolia Ruling Party Wins Reduced Majority In Vote Dominated By Graft

Mongolia's ruling party emerged from this week's polls with its parliamentary majority significantly diminished Saturday, local media said, after a campaign dominated by graft fears and the state of the economy.

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Mongolians vote amid anger over corruption, sluggish economy

Ruling Mongolian People’s Party expected to win another term despite concerns over its rule.

Al Jazeera

Mongolians Vote As Anger Grows Over Corruption And Economy

Mongolians go to the polls in parliamentary elections on Friday, with the ruling party widely expected to win despite deepening public anger over corruption and the state of the economy.

International Business Times

Mongolians To Vote In Poll Dominated By Corruption Worries

Mongolians go to the polls Friday in parliamentary elections, with the ruling party expected to hold its majority despite voter fatigue over corruption and concern about inflation and the state of the economy.

International Business Times

U.S. judge in Amarillo halts Biden administration’s attempt to end “remain in Mexico” policy

The Biden administration stopped enrolling new asylum seekers into the Trump-era program in August.

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Texas judge prevents Biden from ending ‘Remain in Mexico’ immigration policy

A Texas federal judge on Thursday ruled for a second time that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security can’t end a Trump administration program that forced asylum seekers to wait outside the country while their claims are resolved.

Tribune News Service

Pharma's expensive gaming of the drug patent system is successfully countered by the Medicines Patent Pool, which increases global access and rewards innovation

Biomedical innovation reached a new era during the COVID-19 pandemic as drug development went into overdrive. But the ways that brand companies license their patented drugs grant them market monopoly, preventing other entities from making generics so they can exclusively profit. This significantly limits the reach of lifesaving drugs, especially…

The Conversation

Mexico says Trump-era border program formally ends

Mexico's foreign ministry said on Tuesday a Trump-era program that forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for U.S. immigration hearings, known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), had come to an end.

Reuters

How Western countries could stop Africa making vaccines of the future

While Western donors have stumped up significant funding for a programme to make Covid-19 vaccines in Africa, activists say more support is needed to help poor countries secure the intellectual property rights they need to produce mRNA vaccines beyond the pandemic.

Radio France Internationale

‘Like copying a Louis Vuitton handbag’: big pharma hits out at Africa’s replica Covid vaccine

Knowledge-sharing hub in Cape Town reverse engineered the Moderna vaccine, but future of the initiative to reduce inequity remains unsure

The Guardian - UK

“Thanks, and God bless you”: Asylum-seekers allowed to enter U.S. after “remain in Mexico” ends

Two weeks after a federal judge allowed the Biden administration to end the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols, U.S. judges are beginning to allow migrants to stay in the country as their asylum claims are pending.

The Texas Tribune

First confusion, and finally some relief, as 'Remain in Mexico' begins wind down in San Diego

SAN DIEGO — Moments after his immigration case was heard Wednesday, a 51-year-old Cuban asylum seeker sat on a bench in the back of the courtroom and wept openly.

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What is the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy that Biden just ended?

On Monday night, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it ended the Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for immigration hearings, continuing a legal battle with Texas.

The Texas Tribune

Homeland Security says it will end “remain in Mexico” policy and allow asylum seekers to enter U.S.

The agency announced late Monday that it will end the Trump-era program, which forced asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are pending, after a Texas federal judge lifted an injunction

Los Angeles Times

Biden administration to halt controversial 'Remain in Mexico' program

The Biden administration will halt the use of a Trump-era policy that forced migrants seeking asylum to remain in Mexico, after a Supreme Court ruling said the government could unwind the program, according to two U.S. officials.

Axios

Biden admin to end Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" border policy after court order

The program "has endemic flaws, imposes unjustifiable human costs," DHS said in a statement.

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Texas Observer

Migrant Deaths Are a Feature—Not a Bug—of U.S. Immigration Policy

Governor Greg Abbott says he can make coming to the U.S. more miserable than being smuggled in the back of a tractor-trailer.

Reason

Supreme Court Ruling in "Remain in Mexico" Case is a Win for Biden, Migrants - and Fans of Presidential Power

The ruling likely allows end of a cruel policy - but also reinforces broad presidential control over immigration.

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court rules 'Remain in Mexico' can end. Now asylum seekers wait in Tijuana to see if it really will

TIJUANA, Mexico — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Biden administration can end the "Remain in Mexico" program, but life does not appear likely to change much for asylum seekers waiting in Tijuana for their U.S. immigration court cases — at least for the near future.

Salon

SCOTUS: Biden can end "Remain in Mexico"

Ruling sends case back to Texas judge who blocked the rule change in the first place

The Texas Tribune

Supreme Court rules Biden administration can end “remain in Mexico” policy, sending case back to a Texas court

The Trump administration created the Migrant Protection Protocols, also called “remain in Mexico,” in 2019 before the Biden administration canceled it in 2021. The ruling sends the case back to a Texas federal court.

Axios

SCOTUS allows Biden to end "Remain in Mexico" policy

The court is allowing Biden to end the program, but is also sending the case back to lower courts.

Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court rules Biden can end Trump’s 'Remain in Mexico' policy

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld President Joe Biden’s power to enforce immigration laws, ruling he may repeal the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy, which barred most Central American migrants from entering the United States to seek asylum.

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