The World Health Organization (WHO) appears intent on the success of its attempted power grab. They’ve grown accustomed to the public not participating and not having an awareness of their plans or tactics. But the World Council for Health (WCH) and our partners are shining a light on the WHO’s actions so they can no longer act quietly in the darkness.
The WCH Law and Activism Committee has uncovered two serious concerns that warrant immediate attention.
In April, the WHO initiated an open comment period regarding their proposed global pandemic treaty. Despite not adequately publicizing the call for comments, organizations like the World Council for Health and many of our partners took the charge and campaigned for our supporters and to respond to the WHO’s call to action.
Our combined efforts resulted in over 36,000 (acknowledged) comments to the WHO. The vast majority of these comments were against the proposed pandemic treaty. Some of those comments can be found here.
Despite the success (or failure depending on perspective) of their unenthusiastic call to action, the WHO has quietly postponed the second round of comments on the proposed pandemic treaty. The organization has also recently changed its preferred terminology from ‘pandemic treaty’ to ‘pandemic accord’ possibly in an effort to disconnect the ‘accord’ from the negative press and campaigning that the proposed pandemic ‘treaty’ received.
The second round of public participation was scheduled to happen this week — June 16 and 17 — but was indefinitely postponed. This is unacceptable and we have just sent a letter to the WHO telling them this very thing. You can read the letter here.
Call to Action
Tell the WHO that it’s not okay to postpone this round of public participation. Public health is not a one-size-fits-all program. We need people and communities in control of their health, not top-down mandates and endless power grabs.
Tell the WHO what you think on social media. Be sure to use the hashtags #StopTheWHO, #StopTheTreaty, and #StopTheAccord.
You can also tell them what you think by emailing those directly involved with drafting the proposed agreement.
We should be voicing our opinion to the WHO this week via their public participation process. Just because they’ve postponed it doesn’t mean we have to be silent. Let’s raise our voices together, with or without the WHO’s public participation process.
The second serious issue that we’ve uncovered is that Article 55 of the International Health Regulations was violated.
Article 55 states that proposed amendments shall be made available to member states four months in advance of adoption or rejection. Despite this, new amendments that were proposed at the World Health Assembly 75, were adopted during the same event!
This is in direct violation of Article 55 and we, the people, deserve an answer as to why the democratic process was not respected.
Call to Action
All people around the world are affected by what the WHO does and doesn’t do. Most of us remain unaware of the inner workings of the organization but it’s time for that to stop.
Join us in taking to social media to spread the word that Article 55 of the International Health Regulations was violated and that we the people say that is unacceptable!
The WHO’s recent efforts are unnecessary and many of their recent actions are unacceptable. We are confident that there are indeed enough ethical and credible experts in science, medicine, law, and community organizing, free from conflicts of interest, who can and will help our world co-create a better way for health, autonomy, and sovereignty.
