Legal Review and Analysis of proposed Pandemic Treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations – Norway
Morten Walløe Tvedt
Legal Review and Analysis of proposed Pandemic Treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations – Norway
Morten Walløe Tvedt
With the founding of the United Nations in the immediate aftermath of WWII a powerful global framework emerged out of the rubble. While the United Nations is generally associated with “keeping the peace,” the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund soon arose to perform additional functions…
A question often asked is how nations can leave the WHO, since there is no procedure for exiting the WHO specified in the WHO’s Constitution. International law professor Francis Boyle provides the solution below. “A Withdrawal from the WHO Constitution can be accomplished by invoking the Doctrine of Fundamental Change of Circumstances under Article 62 of the Vienna Convention…