The World Health Organization is a supranational organization in which member countries cede authority and sovereignty on health matters to the group, and whose decisions are binding on its members.
Two international legal agreements currently working their way through the World Health Organization are a new pandemic treaty, and amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations, both due to be put before the governing body of the WHO, in May next year.
The reasons we should sit up and pay attention to the proposed changes and inclusions of a new treaty, are that the WHO, acting in some cases via the sole discretion of its Director General, would be empowered to impose sweeping, legally binding directions on member states and their citizens, ranging from mandating financial contributions by individual states; to requiring the manufacture and international sharing of vaccines and other health products.
“A global system for digital ‘health certificates’ for verification of vaccine status or test results would be routinised, and a bio-surveillance network whose purpose would be to identify viruses and variants of concern – and to monitor national compliance with WHO policy directives in the event of them – would be embedded and expanded.”
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