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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Despite more than a century-long existence, for instance, the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) International Health Regulations only began to incorporate references to human rights in their text as recently as their 2005 iteration and even then engaged with the subject matter in broad strokes.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

Widespread international health emergencies, and particularly pandemics, can lead to a major imbalance of negotiating power between manufacturers and governments. Governments may face difficult policy decisions in their attempts to expeditiously control the spread of disease. Government, the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Despite these experiences, Kenya failed take a human rights-based approach to responding to COVID-19, as was also the case in many other countries. One of the most glaring reasons for this failure was that the Kenyan government simply did not know how to do so.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

The report supports the ongoing processes taking place at the international level to transform global health governance. In June 2023, the Assembly adopted Resolution 2500 (2023) on “Public health emergency: the need for a holistic approach to multilateralism and health care.”

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JANUARY 7, 2022

More probably, due to the lack of precise information by the Chinese government on the real extent of the disease outbreak, they opted for a conservative approach, well aware of the economic and political consequences of a PHEIC declaration for the concerned State.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Although largely technical in focus, these challenges have a normative dimension, as well as concerns that relate to appropriate governance, which the pandemic treaty is largely silent on.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

In particular, Principles 6, 7, and 8 focus in detail on what procedural safeguards – applicable to government decisions and policies in public health emergency contexts – should look like in order to facilitate compliance with human rights, as well as to ensure legitimacy and public support on those decisions and policies.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

Despite pediatric COVID-19 vaccine availability, many youth remain unvaccinated , and are thus at higher risk of life-altering outcomes as a result of contracting COVID-19. [1]. In this post, I argue that young people should have the opportunity to consent to vaccines. By Victoria Kalumbi.

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APRIL 14, 2023

The Argentine case: suspension of pediatric vaccination COVID-19 On November 30, 2022, Federal Court No. 2) By acting in the manner in which he did, the judge in the first instance violated the division of powers and the constitutional and republican principle of government. SB/LC/JGI/VC 14056/2022).

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