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HELEN CLARK
Sovereignty, power, and technology : the sticking points around the negociations for a "pandemic treaty."
Last May, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR) shocked us by bluntly declaring that the COVID-19 pandemic was all but “preventable,” and that the global health system was “clearly unfit” to prevent another infectious pathogen from turning into a new pandemic in the future.
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COVID-19: Make it the Last Pandemic
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness & Response: The COVID-19 pandemic is a sign of how vulnerable and fragile our world is. The virus has upended societies, put the world’s population in grave danger and exposed deep inequalities.
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What does the WHO need? Public health experts are unanimous: More power, more independence, and more transparency.
Why, with all the warnings and all the information available today, was the world not able to prevent a pandemic that has so far killed over 3 million people around the world?
#57 The G|O Briefing, May 19, 2021
A stronger WHO? Easier said than done! - Is Biden's foreign policy creating an ideological fault line? - A woman at the top of UNCTAD, The G|O hears
#56 The G|O Briefing, May 12, 2021
A major victory for civil society - Independent panel says Covid pandemic was preventable - The Bergamo files: Ranieri Guerra presents its defence
The long road to reclassification: UN Commission removes cannabis from list of most dangerous drugs
This is an onsite edited excerpt of the G|O Briefing newsletter
The UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime’s governing body narrowly voted yesterday to remove cannabis and cannabis resin from the highest level of classification in the 1961 Convention on Narcotic Drugs, following a WHO Expert Committee