The World health organization (WHO)
The 2024 International Health Regulations and the new Pandemic Treaty and what they will mean for YOU!
- RESOURCES OUTLINING DETAILS OF THE WHO TREATIES
This handy printable resource provides more information on the WHO’s pandemic treaties.
This resource can be used to keep yourself up to date with the current status of the WHO’s 2024 International Health Regulations and the status of the new Pandemic Treaty.
Please share this with friends and family, or when making contact with your MP. It is a useful introduction and gives some suggestions as to what the immediate next steps could reasonably be.
Here are the latest versions of the two treaty documents that cross reference to the printable resource:
The WHO's Power Grab in the Name of Health
The World Health Organization (WHO) is an agency of the United Nation’s (UN) responsible for international public health.
Since 2022, both organisations have been working on three documents that purport to be treaties or accords, all in the name of health and future pandemics. All of these documents have been drafted under urgency, behind closed doors, by unelected officials.
The WHO has continued to work on two of the pandemic treaties being the amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations, which Australia is already legally bound, and a new pandemic treaty (documents 02 and 03 respectively).
The THREE treaties
UN’s Political Declaration
The new UN’s Political Declaration of the United Nations General Assembly Pandemic, Prevention, Preparedness and Response Manifesto – zero draft
Amendments Consensus Set
2024 International Health Regulation Amendments consensus set
New DRAFT Pandemic Treaty or WHO CA+
A new pandemic instrument called the Pandemic Treaty or WHO CA+
The pandemic treaties will hand the WHO the authority to make binding directions on how a country is required to respond to a potential public health emergency (not necessarily an actual one). Under the treaties, the WHO will be able to order measures including significant financial contributions from individual Member States, censor scientific debate, order lockdowns, restrict travel, force medical examinations, demand surveillance, specify isolation and quarantine and mandatory vaccinations, all in the name of health.
Whatever your views are of the Covid pandemic, we can all agree that before Australia runs headlong into new and more rules, the more appropriate step for Australia is to stop, reflect, hold hearings, and make findings on what did and didn’t work, and what could have been done differently.
The current status of the WHO Treaty documents:
- Australia has until March 2025 to reject the 2024 International Health Regulations because Australia failed to reject the Article 59 amendments (02.1 above). This is why making rejection of these amendments an election issue is a must!
- The WHO is currently working on the Pandemic Treaty.
Important Dates
- 27 January 2024
The final version of the 2024 International Health Regulations were required to be delivered to Member States by the WHO’s own rules (Article 55).
- End of May 2024
The 77th World Health Assembly was held, at which the 2024 International Health Regulations were voted on and consensus from 194 member states was purportedly achieved. The Pandemic Treaty negotiations have been extended another year but are anticipated to be finalised as early as December 2024.
- September 2024
The United Nations Summit of the Future is being held. it is a high-level event, bringing world leaders together that is said to be to “forge a new international consensus on how we deliver a better present and safeguard the future. Effective global cooperation is increasingly critical to our survival but difficult to achieve in an atmosphere of mistrust, using outdated structures that no longer reflect today’s political and economic realities.”
One of the focuses of the Summit is to bring back on track the UNs 17 Sustainable Development Goals which it describes as being “badly off track” to meet the 2030 Agenda.
The WHO’s pandemic treaties and concept of One Health will be a subject of this meeting.
- March 2025
Australia will have until March 2025 to expressly reject the 2024 International Health Regulations.
- May 2025
If Australia doesn’t reject the 2024 International Health Regulations, it will have to implement them into domestic law.
Questions to ask when discussing the WHO with people
Some key points to help when discussing the WHO pandemic treaties
Two peer-reviewed studies, recently published by the University of Leeds, confirms that:
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- the risk of naturally occurring pandemics is low;
- Covid-19 is an outlier, likely because of its questionable origin; and
- proposed pandemic treaty changes will cost Australians billions of dollars, drawing valuable money and resources from Australians in real need.
- Pandemic emergency defined and reworded
- Communicable disease
- High risk
- State Parties have a say
- Member States will be required to implement the 2024 IHR into its domestic legislation and administrative arrangements:
- It will be required to establish a National IHR Authority:
- The Authority will coordinate the implementation of the 2024 IHRs into our domestic legislation and administrative arrangements; and
- Report to the WHO on Member State’s compliance.
- NZ will have to report to the WHO if it has not implemented all of the Regulations and do so within specified times.
(2024 IHRs: Articles 1 definition of ‘National IHR Authority’, ‘competent authority’ 4, 15, 16, 42, 54, 59.3)
- It will be required to establish a National IHR Authority:
- The WHO will have the power to order Member States to impose:
- lockdowns
- travel restrictions
- forced medical examinations
- mandatory vaccinations
- isolation and quarantine.
(2024 IHRs: Articles 1, 15, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 31, 42, 49, Annex 1)
- Vaccine passports and the marriage with Digital IDs – called ‘health documents’ – a global system of health certificates relating to testing, vaccination, prophylaxis and recovery – our client gets to decide whether digital or non-digital. And have to include details of the person administering the vaccine. (2024 IHRAs: Articles 18, 23, 24, 27, 31, 32, 35, 36 and 44 and Annexes 6 and 8)
- Personal medical information and samples will still have to be supplied to the WHO and it can disclose that to others. (2024 IHRAs, Articles 1 ‘surveillance’, 5 and 45, Annex 1)
- The fundamental principle of individual human rights is retained but diluted with group concepts of equity and solidarity. (2024 IHRs, Article 3)
- Control the messaging by:
- Curtailing and controlling freedom of speech (mis and dis-information)
- Control research and development
- Censor scientific debate.
(2024 IHRAs: Annex 1 Core Capacities (4, A.2(c)); Pandemic Treaty: Articles 1.13, 9, 18)
- Financing – sustainable financing includes financing other countries to implement the Regulations including combating mis-information (2024 IHRs, Article 44, 44 bis, 54 bis)
Vaccine manufacturers will be free from liability with countries required to grant indemnities and establish state compensation schemes for the injured. (Pandemic Treaty: Article 13)
The Pandemic Treaty applies all of the time, not just pandemics. (Pandemic Treaty, Article 2)
Introduction of the ‘One Health‘ concept by the WHO will effectively give the WHO control over the health of people, animals and ecosystems. (Pandemic Treaty: Articles 1, 5)
The WHO will require member states to scour their countryside for pathogens, which then need to be supplied to and stored in WHO laboratories. (300+ IHRAs: Articles 5, 46; Pandemic Treaty: Overview 15, Articles 4, 12)
This comes with significant cost to all Australians:
- $22M in assessed contributions, being amounts determined by the WHO, are already paid by Australians for the period 2022/2023
- $100M in voluntary contributions – that means Australia gave $100M to the WHO – see Penny Wong’s reasons for this significant contribution;
- Potentially increasing to a substantial unknown amount – the WHO will be able to dictate significant financial contributions by individual member states to support developing nations; (Pandemic Treaty: Article 20)
- Initial estimates of the cost to Member States for the WHO to be Pandemic Ready is ≥5% of their national health budgets – for Australia that’s $5.29B (est) per year just to be pandemic ready – this is enough to pay for 53,000 senior nurses for a year, or pay for 212,000 hip replacements
This is by no means an exhaustive list, and remember, these are just the draft documents
