New WHO Treaty will remove personal freedoms and UK Government’s ability to act independently
This proposed ‘Global Government’ by bureaucrats must be stopped before month-end
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A Facts4EU.Org analysis of what the new WHO pandemic treaty will do to us all
As currently drafted, the new WHO Treaty will remove our individual freedoms and impose rules on national governments with the force of international law, unless our legislators start to resile from this before the end of this month.
In Part IV of this series on the WHO’s plans for global governance in health (and thereby lifestyle) matters for the public, we focus on the Treaty. In Part V we will then look at (proposed) changes to the International Health Regulations are laid out and which will be enabled and supported by the treaty we are discussing today.
A Brexit Facts4EU.Org and CIBUK.Org Series
Part One – Executive Summary
Part Two - What is the WHO? Who funds and controls them?
Part Three – Future pandemics and how the WHO will dictate lockdowns and removal of personal freedoms
Part Four - What the WHO pandemic Treaty will do specifically - and how this will affect you - The Treaty
Part Five - The new International Health Regulations - and how they will affect you further
Part Six - How the unelected WHO will take decisions overruling the UK Government
Part Seven - A Facts4EU one-page bulleted summary and conclusions
As with Parts I - III, Facts4EU and CIBUK acknowledge the assistance of Philippa D’Arcy. Philippa is ex-CEO of The Rose Partnership and is now a Functional Health Coach.
If the BBC won’t cover this, we have to do it
The Facts4EU.Org think-tank has been unable to find anything about this serious threat to our national freedoms on the BBC. Despite having only a tiny fraction of the BBC’s funding and resources, we decided that we must act to ensure our elected representatives, the media, and the public are informed about these alarming threats to our way of life.
What follows contains a lot of detail, so we start with a summary of what the new WHO Treaty will do to us all.
The new WHO Treaty
This Pandemic Treaty contains all sorts of reassurance about respecting human dignity, human rights and fundamental freedoms. Digging beneath the surface, however, you are faced with a clear plan to centralise and bring all public health decisions and policies globally under the auspices of WHO. This should trigger major alarm bells that health is being hijacked by politics to allow the elite to control every area of our lives in an undemocratic and unaccountable way.
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If passed into law, this Treaty does the following:-
- Sets up an international supply network overseen by the WHO
- Funds the structures and processes – current budget $31bn per annum
- Sets up a ‘Governing Body’, under the auspices of WHO, to oversee the whole process
- Expands scope by emphasising the ‘One Health’ agenda
‘One Health’ is an ideology that combines human health, animal health and environmental concerns into one. It claims that “all life is equal and of equal concern”, and that a very broad range of aspects of life and the biosphere can impact health and therefore have the ‘potential’ to spread harm across borders. This allows the Director General a very broad scope to declare an international health emergency.
Right: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Dir-Gen, WHO
The details of the Treaty
Article 2 No.2 states that it is applicable at ALL times, not just in times of health emergency
Article 4 No.3 – Pandemic Prevention and Public Health Surveillance
Designed to set up a global laboratory and diagnostics infrastructure with the capacity to perform genomic sequencing, data science to assess risk of detected pathogens and ability to safely handle samples.
Article 6 No.4 / Article 12 – Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing System (WHO PABS System)
Members need to set up genomics, risk assessment and lab networks, in order to conduct surveillance and sharing of emerging pathogens, with the goal of seeking out ‘pathogens of pandemic potential’ that would allow them facilitate rapid and timely development of pandemic-related products (and to declare a pandemic). It proposes in Article 12 that the genetic sequences are uploaded to one or more publicly accessible databases of its choice. Are we convinced by the draft’s words of reassurance about ensuring that this does not run counter to the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol?
Article 10 No.1(d) - Sustainable production
Encourage manufacturers to grant, on agreed terms, non-exclusive, royalty free licences to any manufacturers, particularly from developing countries, to use their intellectual property and other protected products, technology, know-how, information, in particular for diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics for use in agreed developing countries
Article 13 No.3 (e) – Global Supply Chain and Logistics
The terms of the WHO SCL Network shall include facilitating the negotiation of ‘advance purchase commitments and procurement contracts for pandemic-related products. This means we are obliged to buy products for pandemics in advance, sight unseen.
Neither the manufacturer nor the nation knows what is coming, but once WHO issues a pandemic declaration, the contracts are activated and the UK would have to buy what the manufacturer produces.
The 2009 Swine Flu pandemic provides a useful example, where advance purchase commitments led to tens of $billions in vaccine purchases in North America and Europe for a ‘flu that was less severe than normal. The GSK Pandemrix brand of vaccine alledgedly led to over 1300 cases of severe narcolepsy, primarily in adolescents. Rapid production of vaccines for which profits are guaranteed and liability is waived has never been a win for the consumer.
Article 21 sets up a Conference of Parties (COP) comprised of representatives from nation states
Four Committees are proposed: Implementation & Compliance committee, Pandemic Products Committee, Panel of Experts to provide scientific advice, andf the Benefit-Sharing Expert committee.
All highly industry and economically focused; nothing about doctor-patient relationship or practice of medicine or health of the public. Worryingly the COP would be empowered to introduce new protocols (whatever they want) into the Treaty once it is signed, provided they had a 2/3rds majority vote within the COP.
Article 14 – Regulatory Strengthening
This legally forces Member States to take steps to ensure it has the “legal, administrative and financial frameworks in place to support emergency regulatory approvals for the effective and timely regulatory approval of pandemic-related products”. This incentivises a race to the bottom of drug and vaccine approval standards, particularly during emergencies eg support for the 100 day approval of vaccines in a pandemic.
Article 18 (and 16) – Communication and limiting freedom of expression
This requires countries to cooperate across borders to control dissent and coordinate a single global messaging across countries. Member states will inform policies based on their research into what hinders adherence to public health measures and trust in science and public health institutions. It references and defines a new word ‘infodemic’ which basically means misinformation. (Also Article 9, No.2 (d), Article 1 (c)).
Article 20 – Financing
A sustainable funding mechanism will be in place by no later than 31 Dec 2026, which will ensure adequate and accessible funds. Like the WHO itself it appears that this will involve annual monetary contributions by members, but also voluntary monetary contributions. It also involves an endowment for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, resourced by voluntary contributions from all sectors who benefit from this prevention/preparedness, and from donations from philanthropic organisations. All this funding will provide assistance to developing countries to meet their obligations, and will also fund the Secretariat of the WHO Pandemic Agreement.
The above relies on the following assumptions
- That the WHO is the directing and coordinating authority on international health
- That international spread of disease demands the widest international cooperation (ignoring the fact that the spread may be limited to only a few countries and each will demand a different level of response)
- That nations retain national sovereignty through their ability to pass health laws, while they will be simultaneously bound and accountable to obey direction from the WHO on health
- That we were unprepared for COVID and this caused the pandemic’s suffering and that all we need in future is a central authority to direct us
- That lack of equity led to failure to share drugs, vaccines, PPE, ignoring the fact that it was nations withholding generic drugs from their populations and not lack of equity that caused many treatment shortages
- That pandemics invariably arise at the animal-human interface, are natural in origin and the vaguely defined “One Health” approach can prevent or detect them early
- That increasing the capture and study of potential pandemic pathogens can be done safely and provide useful pandemic products, when neither has been true in the past
- That pharmaceutical manufacturers will agree to give up some IP rights. In October a pharma manufacturers’ association said it would prefer no treaty to this one
- The UN adopted a declaration on pandemic preparedness on Sept 20 2023. In fact 11 countries objected and the declaration was only approved by the UN Secretary-General
- That censorship of misinformation (“infodemic”) is legal and desirable
Here is what one informed commentator had to say
“This Pandemic Treaty intends to create a complicated managerial structure with a new WHO Secretariat and Conference of the Parties to perform activities that have never been shown to prevent or respond to pandemics effectively or provide any other benefits. In fact these efforts are most likely to increase pandemics and encourage the use of hasty regulatory structures and problematic, liability-waived drugs and vaccines produced too quickly”
- Dr Meryl Nass, 23 Oct 2023, analysis of the Oct 23 Negotiating Text
In Part V of this series of important reports we shall reveal the stringent rules of the proposed new International Health Regulations, which will impose even more conditions on the people of the United Kingdom.
Observations
The proposed new WHO Pandemic Treaty is still in its draft stages. What is clear, however, is that the WHO seems set on taking on supranational powers. This is a form of global government by unelected officials and in our view must be stopped.
In Part V of this series we will look at the changes proposed to the International Health Regulations, which go hand-in-hand with the proposed new Treaty.
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