Here is a fact-based and logically sound article on the dire threat to national sovereignty posed by the draft WHO Pandemic Agreement and Amendments to the WHO's International Health Regulations scheduled for signing in May 2024. Well done, AW !!!

I have an article out in Mail & Guardian today on World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations.

The amendments will undermine SA's sovereign right to determine it's own health policies.
mg.co.za/thought-leader…

Pan-African Epidemic/Pandemic WorkingGroup Toby Green

Please sign this important petition launched by Pan-African Epidemic/Pandemic WorkingGroup on the WHO treaty:
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An important document, and statement.

I just signed this important open letter, penned by public health scholars, to oppose the new WHO treaty as a danger to the health and well being of people -- especially the poor -- worldwide and the sovereignty of nations.

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⁦World Health Organization (WHO)⁩ is clearly acting against equity.

So what or who are the pandemic agreements being promoted for?

Who gains? dailysceptic.org/2024/04/09/the…

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Withdraw the Draft Pandemic Treaty and Amendments to the International Health Regulations chng.it/7ZPJrDnt via Change.org

South African Parliament Debates the WHO #PandemicTreaty and #AmendedInternationalHealthRegulations :
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Paul David Bell AW Mail & Guardian Divine Fuh Prof. Reginald Oduor, Ph.D. therese hansen World Health Organization (WHO) Public Health Communications USA TODAY Times of Malta Yes but it was then clarified that while you have focussed on the WHO treaty, the IHR regulations support the claims of the article.

As you say, social media not the best place for this. Hope substantive discussions will take place.

Pan-African Epidemic/Pandemic WorkingGroup

Toby Green is away David Bell Paul Mail & Guardian World Health Organization (WHO) Pan-African Epidemic/Pandemic WorkingGroup Furthermore, as outlined in recent article in
Opinio Juris, proposed IHR amendments will give unique ‘emergency’ powers to
World Health Organization (WHO) & DG, & expand bio-surveillance powers

opiniojuris.org/2023/02/27/the…

Toby Green David Bell Paul Mail & Guardian World Health Organization (WHO) Pan-African Epidemic/Pandemic WorkingGroup Opinio Juris Read article for full analysis, but below a short 🧵drawn from 'The Proposed Amendments to the International Health Regulations: An Analysis'

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Toby Green David Bell Paul Mail & Guardian World Health Organization (WHO) Pan-African Epidemic/Pandemic WorkingGroup Opinio Juris Proposed amendments to IHR will:

1.) Expand the situations that constitute a PHEIC (Public Health Emergency of International Concern)

2.) Give WHO & DG Global Legislative Health Emergency Powers

3.) Extend the scope of WHO Executive Emergency Powers

Toby Green David Bell Paul Mail & Guardian World Health Organization (WHO) Pan-African Epidemic/Pandemic WorkingGroup Opinio Juris 'Proposals suggest giving the DG the authority to declare an ‘intermediate public health alert’ where a public health event does not meet the criteria of a PHEIC but ‘requires heightened international awareness and preparedness activity’

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Toby Green David Bell Paul Mail & Guardian World Health Organization (WHO) Pan-African Epidemic/Pandemic WorkingGroup Opinio Juris 'The second reason why the powers of DG & WHO may dramatically increase are proposed amendments that, if adopted, will transform the WHO & its DG (& the ECs they can set up) into a global health emergency legislator once the very same organisation &its DG has declared a PHEIC'

Toby Green is away David Bell Paul Mail & Guardian World Health Organization (WHO) Pan-African Epidemic/Pandemic WorkingGroup Opinio Juris 'This is indicated by proposals to potentially change the currently non-binding temporary & standing ‘recommendations’ on medical & or non-medical countermeasures to address a PHEIC that DG shall issue to WHO member states after consultation with EC into binding recommendations'

Toby Green is away David Bell Paul Mail & Guardian World Health Organization (WHO) Pan-African Epidemic/Pandemic WorkingGroup Opinio Juris 'If such changes permitting the WHO, ECs & DG to issue legally binding instructions to states is adopted, they will have legislative powers which, with exception of UN Security Council acting under chapter VII of UN Charter, no other UN organ or specialised UN agency has...'

Toby Green is away David Bell Paul Mail & Guardian World Health Organization (WHO) Pan-African Epidemic/Pandemic WorkingGroup Opinio Juris 'Many proposals for amendments aim to considerably expand WHO’s institutional capacities (during a PHEIC) & its bio-surveillance capacities (at all times); & relatedly, also the scope & content of the (potentially binding) recommendations it can issue to states during a PHEIC.'

Toby Green David Bell Paul Mail & Guardian World Health Organization (WHO) Pan-African Epidemic/Pandemic WorkingGroup Opinio Juris Authors argue that 'there is a general lack of engagement with the implications that many of the proposed amendments may, if adopted, have on the enjoyment of human rights as well as long fought-for standards of medical law aiming to ensure safety & efficacy of medical products.'

Toby Green David Bell Paul Mail & Guardian World Health Organization (WHO) Pan-African Epidemic/Pandemic WorkingGroup Opinio Juris '...approaches are likely to lead to interferences with numerous human rights... the right to health, including principle of informed consent & the right to access safe & effective medical products...'