Alternative report to the 113th Session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Submitted by Feminists for a People’s Vaccine Campaign (FPV) and Campaign Against Racism (CAR)

In an era of overlapping global crises—public health, debt, and genocide—the right to health is under severe threat. This report, submitted to the CERD Committee for the review of the United Kingdom, examines the UK’s extraterritorial obligations and its failure to uphold racial equality and human rights in the context of global inequities.

It highlights how the UK’s intellectual property and trade policies continue to block equitable access to medicines, how its role in the global debt system undermines the right to health, and how its inaction contributes to impunity in the ongoing Palestinian genocide.

The report calls on the CERD Committee to urge the UK to remove IP barriers to medicines, protect human rights in debt negotiations, and meet its international obligations to end complicity in systemic racial and health injustices.