Negotiations are taking place to significantly expand the control of the World Health Organisation (WHO) over global public health responses and thinking via a) amend- ments to the International Health Regulations (2005), and b) a pandemic treaty/accord (WHO CA+). Both instruments can be seen as complementary. While the submitted IHR amendments, if approved, would greatly enhance the powers of the WHO as well as its Director-General vis-à-vis states and non-state actors, the pandemic treaty in its current form would create a new, cost-intensive supranational bureaucracy and impose an ideological framework under which to operate in matters of global health.
The World Council for Health officially puts British MPs on notice that it is not acceptable to transfer any decision-making powers reserved for democratic institutions to an unelected, unaccountable supranational body like the WHO. Next week, your MPs will receive 1- a full 45-page policy brief document called Rejecting Monopoly Power over Global Public Health prepared by political and legal experts, 2- a 7-page summary of the policy brief, 3- a cover letter highlighting the issues with the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR) and/or the WHO Pandemic Accord concerning sovereignty, censorship, surveillance, gain-of-function research, and more, 4- a copy of the WHO’s Article-by-Article Compilation of Proposed Amendments to the IHR. MPs can no longer say they did not know. This effort is crowd funded. It is democracy in action. We thank
for his tremendous support. You can read the summary of the expert policy brief yourself here: https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Policy-Brief-Summary.pdf You can also exclusively read the full policy document here: https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/WHO-IHR-2005-Amendments-and-Pandemic-Treaty.-Rejecting-Monopoly-Power-over-Global-Public-Health-v2.pdf
