PROPOSED AMENDMENTS to the International Health Regulations, guidelines published by the World Health Organization in 2005, would give the WHO power not held by any other global body except the United Nations Security Council. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some 300 amendments to the IHR have been proposed by 16 nations that would vastly expand the power of the WHO in terms of deciding what constitutes a global health emergency and how to respond\u2014including control over what it determines is mis- or disinformation and rushing into production new, unlicensed \u201cinvestigational\u201d medicines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
These expanded powers also would broaden the definition of a health emergency to include things like CO2 levels in the atmosphere, and give the WHO power to issue binding<\/em> recommendations to member states on medical and\/or non-medical countermeasures \u201cnot only regarding \u2018persons, baggage, cargo, containers, conveyances, goods and\/or postal parcels to prevent or reduce the international spread of disease and avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic\u2019 as is currently the case, but also \u2018on the access and availability of health products, technologies, and know-how, including an allocation mechanism for their fair and equitable access\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In short, the proposed amendments, if passed at the World Health Assembly next May, would make the World Health Organization a technocratic dictatorship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n