WHO Pushes for Global Pandemic Treaty AGAIN as World Bank Creates $1B Fund for VACCINE PASSPORTS And IDs
- WHO Pushes for Global Pandemic Treaty AGAIN as World Bank Creates $1B Fund for VACCINE PASSPORTS And IDs
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This is what happens if we do not wake up. Options are rapidly diminishing. Surface wars are the distraction while the real threat to humanity goes unimpeded…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is moving ahead with plans to enact a new or revised international pandemic preparedness treaty, despite encountering setbacks earlier this summer after dozens of countries, primarily outside the Western world, objected to the plan.
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A majority of WHO member states on July 21, during a meeting of WHO’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB), agreed to pursue a legally binding pandemic instrument that will contain “both legally binding as well as non-legally binding elements.”
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STAT News described the agreement, which would create a new global framework for responding to pandemics, as “the most transformative global health call to action since [the] WHO itself was formed as the first specialized United Nations agency in 1948.”
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Meanwhile, the World Economic Forum, African Union and World Bank — which created a $1 billion fund for “disease surveillance” and “support against the current as well as future pandemics” — are developing their own pandemic response mechanisms, including new cross-country vaccine passport frameworks.
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WHO’s ‘pandemic treaty’: what’s been proposed and what would it mean?
Ongoing talks to formulate a new or revised “pandemic treaty” are building on the existing international framework for global pandemic response, the WHO’s International Health Regulations (IHR), considered a binding instrument of international law.
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"I’m pleased that alongside the process of negotiating a new intl accord on pandemic preparedness & response, WHO’s Member States are also considering targeted amendments to the [IHR], incl. ways to improve the process for declaring a [PHEIC]."-@DrTedros
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) July 23, 2022
2️⃣ Second resolution – led by 🇬🇧 🇨🇱 🇪🇺 with 60+ co-sponsors – calls for discussions on a #PandemicTreaty to start later this year.
Negotiations may take time, but this is a historic step towards global health security.
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— Simon Manley (@SimonManleyFCDO) May 25, 2021
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