One Health in the New Pandemic Agreement
06.08.2025
After over three years of negotiations, on 20 May 2025 the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA) finally adopted a new international instrument, the WHO Pandemic Agreement, which aims to strengthen...
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The Role of International Cooperation and Technology Transfers in Advancing Equity in Global Health
24.07.2025
“With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Health is by far the most important element in human happiness”. Arthur Schopenhauer...
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On the Fragmentation of International Law and Global Health Law
09.04.2025
Introduction A set of intertwined compelling questions need to be answered by the Bureau of the World Health Organization (WHO) Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) before presenting the results of the...
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Post-Pandemic Reform Discussions in International Health Law: The Reform of the International Health Regulations and the Proposal for the new WHO Pandemic Agreement
28.07.2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly demonstrated that international cooperation to combat pandemics is insufficient. The World Health Organisation has therefore recently reformed the International Health Regulations. The World Health Assembly...
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Beware of Procedural Perils
14.04.2021
The global political momentum created by the COVID-19 pandemic recently led to a joint statement on 30 March 2021, signed by the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Director-General and twenty-seven heads...
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Bringing home the remains of forcibly disappeared persons
17.12.2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it impossible for millions of people around the globe to say goodbye to their loved ones or to bury them according to their beliefs. This situation...
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