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COVID-19 Vaccines: Is equity between North and South still possible?

The global supply of COVID-19 vaccines has been controlled by countries with financial and political means, leaving behind most of the world’s developing regions, including the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Almost 75 percent of the approximately 5 billion vaccine doses administered globally have been used by just 10 countries.[1]

Tunisia’s “Al-Ahyaa Al-Sha’Biya”: Socioeconomic Grievances, Mobilisation, and Repression

In 2021, Tunisia witnessed several political and socio-economic crises, which were further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The country had already been facing an acute economic contraction – described by the International Monetary Fund as the worst crisis since Tunisia’s independence in 1956 (IMF, 2021). In 2020, Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi indicated that the country had a negative growth rate of 6.5 percent and a public debt amounting to 86 percent of GDP (Chomiak, 2021).

Webinar invitation: Beyond Winter and Spring: politics and social contention in the MENA region after 2011 - Session 1 - دعوة لندوة: ما بعد الشتاء والربيع: السياسة والنزاعات الاجتماعية في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا بعد العام ٢٠١١ - ندوة ١

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Beyond Winter and Spring: politics and social contention in the MENA region after 2011

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Social Contention
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موجز: الإقتصاد السياسي لإدارة أزمة جائحة كوفيد-١٩ في تونس: هل هي أزمة حُكم أم فشلٌ على مستوى المنظومة الصحّية؟

تصدَّرَ عناوين الأخبار التصريحُ الذي أدلت به الناطقة الرسمية لوزارة الصحّة، في منتصف عام ٢٠٢١، وتحدّثت فيه عن انهيار النظام الصحّي التونسي وعجزه عن توفير الخدمات العلاجية للعديد من المرضى، إلى جانب الارتفاع الكبير الذي سجَّله عدّاد الإصابات والوفيات إثر تفشّي الموجة الرابعة للجائحة. وكانَ لهذا التصريح غير الدقيق والمستعجل تداعياتٌ واسعة على المستويَيْن الداخلي والخارجي، إذ استنكرت الجمعيات هذا التصريح الذي فنّدته الحكومة في اليوم نفسه.

Webinar invitation: Decolonising Access to Health, Addressing Vaccine Inequity in MENA | 2 September 2021 - دعوة لحضور الندوة: توفير الحقّ في الصحّة للجميع، وتحقيق المساواة في الحصول على اللقاح في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا. مقاربة ما بعد الاستعمارية | ٢

Vaccination policies in response to the ongoing pandemic are reinforcing globally the commodification of healthcare and furthering inequity. In the MENA region notably, vaccination campaigns are progressing slowly, with varying challenges, depending on each context.

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Right To Health
Covid19
MENA Region

Social justice in MENA | July 2021 bulletin - العدالة الإجتماعية في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا | نشرة تموز ٢٠٢١

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Crafting the good citizen, streaming the good king: Notes on press freedom, hegemony and social contention in King Abdallah II’s Jordan

Introduction 

In recent years, press freedom in Jordan has undergone a significant contraction (Alnajjar 2021). The repressive shift arrived concurrently with the steady rise in contentious mobilizations that the country has been experiencing since 2011, as a result of the progressive degradation of the average living conditions and the state reiteration of tight IMF-backed neoliberal reforms.

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