sarah leah whitson of — end this practice. sarah leah whitson of dawn, _ end this practice. ealth organization has given emergency approval to use astrazeneca covid—i9 vaccines produced in india and south korea. the decision will help distribute the vaccine to poorer countries through the global programme known as covax. these jabs will make up most of the initial 330 million doses of covax�*s first rollout, which begins at the end of the month. we now have all the pieces in place to have a solution of vaccines. but we still need to scale up production. and we continue to call on vaccine developers to submit their doses to the who for review at the same time, at least admit them to regulators in high income countries. meanwhile, the newly appointed head of the world trade organisation has told the bbc that when it comes to coronavirus vaccines, protectionism is not the answer to ending the pandemic. in one of herfirst interviews since getting one of the top jobs in global trade, nigeria�*s dr ngozi 0konjo—iweala told correspondent nancy kacungira her organisation could help a

sarah leah whitson is the executive director of dawn, a non—profit promoting human rights in the middles hostages to gain concessions from rival states... 0bviously, arbitrary detention itself is a widespread, sadly global practice, particularly from authoritarian governments around the world. but we have seen a dramatic escalation of detentions of foreign nationals who may be there on business or scholars orjournalists, who are literally being picked up used as bargaining chips. i couldn�*t help noticing some of the signatories to this are in fact also guilty of what they are condemning? exactly. and to the point, the united states accuses iran of holding 30 american dual nationals, i believe there are some canadians among them as well, but iran accuses the united states of holding 20 iranians for sanctions busting charges that they believe are similarly arbitrary. and in fact, the countries have engaged in hostage swapping, swapping the detentions in each country to secure their release. so, who is this really a message for, would you say? well, very clearly the initiative grew out of