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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…
The Luxembourg Court’s post-COVID jurisprudence on procedural rights – a new layer of obligations for Finland during future crises?
Within the legal context of the European Union, the group of so-called due process – or procedural – rights are safeguarded by Title VI (‘Justice’) of the Charter…
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…
New Oxford/Dublin research: Public majorities worldwide support a democratic world government focused on global issues
As last week’s UN Summit of the Future aimed for bold actions, our new study in the International Studies Quarterly finds that…
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…
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…
Equitable Access Contracts: Building Blocks of a Future Global Vaccine Strategy
Introduction Due to the major legal gaps revealed in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, in December 2021, WHO member states decided to establish…
The Role of the Right to Health in a “Hidden” Pandemic: Antimicrobial Resistance
Last week, UK health officials declared that a "hidden pandemic" of antibiotic-resistant infections could soon threaten human health and lives. More cold symptoms are expected this winter,…
Why the rush? A call for critical reflection on the legal and human rights implications of a potential new international treaty on pandemics
Background: the push for an international treaty on pandemics At the close of the 74th World Health Assembly (WHA) on the 1st of…