Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Building on Siracusa to develop new human rights principles for public health emergencies Once again, the ICJ played a leading role in collaboration with the Global Health Law Consortium in drafting the PH Principles—released alongside the World Health Assembly in May 2023.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

This symposium gathers reflections from leading scholars, activists, jurists, and others from around the world with respect to the recently issued Principles. Historically, Global Health Law has been permeated with colonialism and concerned with preserving travel and trade rather than protecting human dignity, health and life.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

By Tara Davis and Nicola Soekoe In January 2021, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) observed that the world was on the brink of a “catastrophic moral failure” if wealthier nations did not ensure the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As showed in a policy-brief by GI-ESCR , this situation might amount to a violation of the right to health under domestic constitutional and international law.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

By Kayum Ahmed, Julia Bleckner, and Kyle Knight In mid-May, the World Health Organization officially declared the “emergency” phase of the COVID-19 pandemic over.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Judge Zione Ntaba’s contribution highlights how courts in Malawi decided cases relating to the Government’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic , including, in particular, the provision of social security measures in parallel with lockdown measures, and the policy proposals relating to mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

the principles encourage international cooperation, “including measures for technical and economic cooperation, and equitable access to health goods, facilities, services and technologies.” The World Health Organizations (WHO) agreements are central in this context.” For example, in Article 2.2,

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