Amnesty International criticizes governments for blocking a proposal in the World Trade Organization to waive patents on treatment for Covid-19. The governments which opposed it are evidently under the power of plutocracy.

Approving that proposal would have been a step forward, but the WTO's patent rules are unjust all the time — for poor countries especially, but ultimately for all countries.

The parts of the TRIPES agreement (Trade-Restricting Impediments to Production, Education and Science) concerning copyrights and patents ought to be abolished.