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The WHO Pandemic Agreement: Equity for Developing States or Business as Usual?
At 3am on Wednesday 16th April 2025, after three years of intense negotiations, WHO member states (minus the United States) preliminarily consented to a final text of the…
To Future-Proof the WHO Pandemic Agreement, Rethink the Amendment Clauses
Recent negotiations on the proposed WHO Pandemic Agreement suggest that the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) will need more time to reach consensus on critical issues…
The 77th World Health Assembly: Modest Amendments to the IHR-2005… More Expectations of the WHO’s ‘Pandemic Treaty’?
The Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly (‘WHA-77’) was held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 27 May – 1 June 2024. The theme of WHA-77 has been ‘All…
Compliance and Accountability Mechanisms in the 2024 Revisions to the WHO International Health Regulations (2005)
Since the COVID-19 virus first emerged in China in late 2019 there have been many high-level reviews of how the world could better have tackled this…
“We’re In This for the Long Haul”: The End of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern Due to COVID-19
Last Friday, 5 May 2023, acting upon advice from an Emergency Committee, the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared under Article 12 of the International…
Editorial Correction
This post was published in error, instead of a new post by Prof. Bartolini. The post on the pandemic was published on EJIL: Talk! already in 2020, and can be…
The First Working Draft of the WHO’s ‘Pandemic Treaty’: attempting to cover normative gaps indicated by the COVID-19 pandemic?
Given its cross-border nature and the threat to global health, the COVID-19 crisis has shown the world the importance of strengthening global pandemic governance. In particular, the pandemic…
What Does the Monkeypox Outbreak Tell Us about Global Health Governance? Critical Remarks on the New WHO Declaration of Public Health Emergency of International Concern
On 23 July 2022, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) declared that the outbreak of monkeypox constitutes a public health…
The far-reaching US proposals to amend the International Health Regulations at the upcoming 75th World Health Assembly: A call for attention
The upcoming 75th World Health Assembly (WHA) to be held in Geneva from 22-28th May 2022 will potentially adopt far-reaching amendments to the 2005 International…
Justified Border Closures do not violate the International Health Regulations 2005
Rapidly developing pandemics require governments to use their best endeavours to protect their populations. International law permits them to do this provided they observe certain conditions, but limits…
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