The Seventh meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) took place in Geneva between 6th and 10th November 2023. You can follow proceedings for yourself at https://apps.who.int/gb/inb/e/e_inb-7.html. We have included the time stamps in brackets for ease of accessing the individual speakers. Note that the session is split into two parts. If time is short…
Many of us are aware that the Amendments to the International Health Regulations adopted at the World Health Assembly in May 2022 are due to take effect on 1st December. We also know that the government appear to be delaying the debate in Parliament to reject them. Letter 22 is to demand that MPs lobby…
Back in early October 2023, the Working Group on Amendments to the International Health Regulations (WGIHR) met for the fifth time. They are supposed to have an agreed package of proposed amendments by January 2024 but now realise that time is running out. Instead of postponing the deadline to allow negotiations to continue, they have…
The Negotiating Text for the WHO CA+ (commonly known as the “Pandemic Treaty”) is finally released. After almost a year of largely secret meetings and with sincere thanks to our US friend, James Roguski, we now have our hands on the Advanced unedited version of the Negotiating Text for the WHO CA+.
The Fifth meeting of the Working Group on Amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) took place in Geneva between 2nd and 6th October 2023. This was for the purpose of (1) agreeing a targeted set of amendments to the IHR; and (2) re-orienting the IHR towards equity. As per the previous meetings of…
Dennis Francis, President of the 78th General Assembly, opened the High Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response. Alongside him sat the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina J. Mohammed; the Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom; Senior Managing Director of the World Bank Group, Mr Axel van Trotsenburg and the…
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, opened the General Debate. He warned of rising “geopolitical tensions” and the dangers of AI as well as the need for “global compromise”, renewed efforts around nuclear disarmament, the reformation of the Security Council and the redesign of international finance. He argued that G20 countries must “break their…
The Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) Bureau is moving on from the “bureau’s text” to a “negotiating text”…but what has happened to the “compilation text”? Inter-sessional informal meetings September 2023 It was agreed at the 6th meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) in Geneva (17th – 21st July 2023) that the inter-sessional informal meetings of…
The UK government (along with governments from around the world) will be meeting on 20th September 2023 in New York City. It is expected that the Political Declaration of the United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response will be adopted. Adoption of this Declaration is tantamount to agreeing, now, to…
None of us should forget what happened during the “pandemic” – masks, vaccines and restrictions. We all need to ensure that any future measures for such action are rejected and is why we should all be very concerned about the plans to expand the remit of the WHO. Share this 3 minute video with friends…