IHR  Compendium

IHR Compendium

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Current IHR Amendments
FEBRUARY 6TH 2023
Article-by-Article compilation of proposed amendments…

What are the International Health Regulations?

What are the International Health Regulations?

While the current IHRs have been considered recommendations and not orders, the members of the World Health Assembly (the W.H.O. member states) decided to amend the existing IHR in March 2022.[4] Currently only drafts, and not the final IHR proposal are currently available, the drafts…

What is the Pandemic Treaty?

What is the Pandemic Treaty?

In response to what is essentially an international trade dispute, a special session of the World Health Assembly decided on December 1, 2021 to create an Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) to launch a process to develop an historic global accord under the Constitution of the World Health Organization to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and…

What is the W.H.O.?

What is the W.H.O.?

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is an agency formed under the auspices of the United Nations (U.N.) in 1948, shortly after the U.N. itself was formed following World War 2. It is considered a specialized agency of the U.N. Unlike other specialized U.N. agencies, the W.H.O. has its own constitution, and can make treaties. The W.H.O. is composed of…

What is One Health and Why is it a Problem?

What is One Health and Why is it a Problem?

“One Health” was conceived 20 years ago as the idea that human health and animal health are intertwined, since some diseases are transmitted from animals to humans. These diseases would perhaps be better managed with specialists in animal and human health working together. Subsequently the WHO, the US government and…

Human Rights

Human Rights

The 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights has been signed and ratified by 173 countries, including the US. It recognizes that the “inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family [are] the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.” It then specifies the rights of all peoples: “All peoples have the right…

The Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals

The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the basis of Agenda 2030, a collection of seventeen interlinked objectives, adopted as a resolution by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2015.  They are described as a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.”[1]  The UN Secretary-General’s intention…

Transhumanism

Transhumanism

The word transhumanism relates to the integration of human bodies with technology. It is driven by scientific advances but directed and financed by governments, military agencies, medical institutions, Big Pharma, and multi-national corporations. Transhumanism discarded medical ethics while ‘Playing God’ with humanity. Transhumanism and the…

The Control of Food

The Control of Food

Our grandparents and great grandparents produced much of their own food in their gardens or on their farms. Food choices in stores were limited, with little frozen food available and fewer fresh and canned foods for sale. Our grandparents and great grandparents produced much of their own food in their gardens or on their farms…

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