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A Call for Using Technology with Discernment
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the digital transformation include a number of beneficial and harmful innovations, the latter presenting a severe threat to health, essential human rights and democracy that must not be underestimated. The public and decision-makers need to differentiate and be careful what they welcome and what they oppose in the name of digitalization. This in-depth WCH policy brief showcases aspects of the process of digitalization that negatively impact (public) health, essential human rights and democracy. It discusses radiation-based wireless technology (including 5G), the impacts of excessive or misguided use of digital technology on mental health and development as well as the inhumane conditions under which some technologies are being produced. It further explains the threats emanating from the surveillance economy, Digital ID, a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and the idea of a cashless society. The document contains policy recommendations to effectively address these issues and avert harm. Further, the document is meant to empower the reader to make informed decisions in their own everyday life when interacting with specific technologies and the effects of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Ending Modern-Day Slavery
Human trafficking (including child trafficking) for sexual exploitation, organ harvesting and forced labor/servitude is a crime against humanity causing severe physical and psychological harm and trauma in the millions of people subjected to it at any given moment. Ending human trafficking once and for all must be prioritized on every level. This policy document serves as a fact-based introduction to the topic of human trafficking and modern-day slavery and outlines why the trafficking of persons for exploitation is also a public health issue. The document proposes societal measures and provides policy recommendations to end this crime once and for all.
Lawful Criteria to Declare a State of Emergency.
Many consider Covid-19 to have been a worldwide ‘Trojan Horse’ event that enabled human rights and freedoms to be trampled, dangerous medical interventions to be normalised, and an unprecedented transfer of wealth to take place from ordinary people to the super-rich. There is deep concern too that this was just a trial run, and that the immanent promulgation of the World Health Organization’s ‘Pandemic Treaty’ and amended International Health Regulations will take these tyrannical measures to an entirely different level. In response to these concerns, the World Council for Health has published a Legal Brief on Preventing the Abuse of Public Health Emergencies. This document explains how governments used the declaration of an unjustifiable state of emergency as a legal instrument to deny people their basic human rights and freedoms, and to grant themselves extraordinary powers.
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