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![An employee at the biotechnology company Afrigen works in a manufacturing laboratory in Cape Town.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/11/2021_1130-afrigen-vaccines-400x300.jpg)
Moderna Refuses to Share Vaccine Recipe With Africa as Omicron Rises
Moderna projects $18 billion in sales as a handful of countries block an international patent waiver for vaccines.
![A health care nurse helps a patient on June 30, 2021 in District Heights, Maryland.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/11/GettyImages-1235483346-400x300.jpg)
Disability Advocates Give Tepid Welcome to Build Back Better’s Home Care Funding
The investment is half of what was originally promised and is unlikely to address long waiting lists and low wages.
![Hundreds of people wait in a line that stretched several blocks from the pantry for their turn to receive food at the La Colaborativa Food Pantry in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on November 23, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/11/GettyImages-1236756524-400x300.jpg)
Not Everyone Is Feasting. Food Insecurity Is Much Higher Than Before COVID.
This is a crisis — magnified by the pandemic — not of food-production failures but of skyrocketing inequality.
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UN Human Rights Envoy Slams Racist Voter Suppression in US
A UN expert said the U.S. “stands out among Western democracies for its incomplete patchwork of human rights.”
![Commuters walking in a city at sunrise](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/11/2021_1117-commuters-400x300.jpg)
Apocalypse Normal
We can decide that we won’t live and die on these terms.
![Millions of Afghans Face Starvation as U.S. and the West Freeze Government Funds](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/11/SEG1-AfghanHumanitarianCrisis-1-400x300.jpg)
Millions of Afghans Face Starvation as US and the West Freeze Government Funds
Afghanistan fell into an economic crisis after Western countries froze all its funds following the Taliban takeover.
![Israeli left-wing activists gather with Palestinian activists at the Al-Haq Foundation in the West Bank city of Ramallah to denounce Israel's decision to declare six Palestinian human rights groups as "terror organizations," on October 27, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/11/2021_1109-al-haq-400x300.jpg)
Absent Any Proof, Israel Designates Palestinian Rights Groups “Terrorist”
The “terrorist” designations are aimed at depriving human rights groups of funding.
![Sahar Francis, director of Palestinian NGO "Addameer (Conscience) for Prisoner Support and Human Rights", which supports political prisoners detained in Israel and in Palestinian prisons, speaks before cameras at the offices of al-Haq Centre for Applied International Law in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on November 8, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/11/2021_1108-palestine-activism-400x300.jpg)
Social Workers Can No Longer Remain Silent on Oppression of Palestinians
For too long social work has neglected its obligation to stand with the oppressed and fight alongside the marginalized.
![Rep. Rashida Tlaib looks over the headwaters of the Mississippi River where the Line 3 Pipeline is being constructed on September 4, 2021, in Park Rapids, Minnesota.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/11/GettyImages-1235056224-1-400x300.jpg)
Tlaib: US “Must Stop Enabling the Killing of Children” in Palestine
Rep. Rashida Tlaib and CodePink condemned the killing of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy by Israeli forces on Friday.
![Razor wire tops a fence near the guard tower at the entrance to Camp V and VI at the U.S. military prison for "enemy combatants" on June 25, 2013, in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/11/2021_1103-guantanamo-bay-400x300.jpg)
A US Military Jury Is Seeking Clemency for a Guantánamo Detainee
Torture is one of the greatest moral stains on upon the U.S. -- and it happened on our watch.