Global Duties in Crisis Response: A Duty to Help, and a Duty Not to Harm Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines?
Progress in Development Studies
Published online on January 14, 2026
Abstract
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments widely recognized a duty to ensure global access to vaccines. What this duty entailed, however, became highly contested. I highlight how different actors formulated this duty and the political consequences that ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments widely recognized a duty to ensure global access to vaccines. What this duty entailed, however, became highly contested. I highlight how different actors formulated this duty and the political consequences that ...