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Opening and Panel I - Intersessional Seminar on Access to Medicines and Vaccines in the Context of the Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health
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10:00-10:20
High level opening
• Ms. Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [video statement]
• Dr. Mariângela Batista Galvão Simão, Assistant Director-General, WHO
• Dr. Marcelo Queiroga, Minister of Health, Brazil [video statement]
10:20-12:00
PANEL I. Human rights challenges in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a special focus on developing countries, particularly their poorest and most vulnerable populations
Moderator: Mr. Rio Hada, Officer-in-Charge, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section, OHCHR
• Mr. Michel Kazatchkine, Member of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) and Senior Fellow, Global Health Center, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland
• Ms. Nizia Trindade, President of FIOCRUZ [video statement]
• Mr. Deprose Muchena, Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, Amnesty International
• Ms. Jane Barratt, Secretary General, International Federation on Ageing
• Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia, and Member of the WHO Science Council
• Ms. Fatima Hassan, Health Justice Initiative, South Africa (TBC)