Why Can States Assert that the WHO Has No Authority Over Them?

Why Can States Assert that the WHO Has No Authority Over Them?

The Tenth Amendment of the US Constitution’s Bill of Rights states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” This means that the regulation of healthcare falls to the states.

Exiting the World Health Organization

Exiting the World Health Organization

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…

WHO workers commit sexual abuse in the DRC – no justice, no reparations

WHO workers commit sexual abuse in the DRC – no justice, no reparations

I attended a World Health Organisation press conference about responding to sexual abuse and exploitation by staff members in countries they are deployed. The conference was against the horrific backdrop of sex-for-work schemes and the exploitation of women during 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo…

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