#98 The G|O Briefing, May 19, 2022
A new report offers models to strengthen the UN's investigative capacity - A tighter relationship between China and Russia
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A tense World Health Assembly as Ukraine and the West plan to further sanction Russia
Since the start of Russia’s war, the WHO has recorded over 177 attacks on healthcare facilities in Ukraine, with 73 deaths. It should come as no surprise that with such dramatic figures, the Russian army’s behavior in Ukraine will rank high on the agenda of the World Health
#96 The G|O Briefing, May 5, 2022
With the war, is international cooperation still possible? An interview with Michael Barnett - And expect tensions at the next WHA meeting
Hoping for a wow at WHA
One would have hoped that the COVID-19 pandemic would have been met by a coordinated, collective, and global response. Instead, the exact opposite happened.
Exclusive: Transparency International calls on the WHA to independently investigate disclosures of WHO's Italian whistleblower Francesco Zambon
The Geneva Observer has learned that Transparency International and a broad coalition of organizations advocating for a more robust protection mechanism for UN whistleblowers has sent an open letter to the Seventy-Fourth World Health Assembly (WHA) urging WHO Member States to call for an independent review of the disclosures made
#58 The G|O Briefing, May 26, 2021
International Geneva as it has never been shown before!
#5 The G|O Briefing, June 4, 2020
The big news this week in International Geneva was, of course, WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA).
After a successful World Health Assembly, Trump threatens WHO funding
WHO hoped the highly anticipated World Health Assembly would be a global show of solidarity in the face of COVID-19. On those terms, it was undeniably a clear success.
World Health Assembly Special! Covid-19 Resolution agreed amid US disruption
The WHA adopted by consensus an EU-led resolution with more than 144 co-sponsors on the global response to Covid-19, although the US did dissociate itself from several key paragraphs.
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COVID-19 Draft Resolution agreed upon in the run-up to WHA
A draft resolution was agreed upon today on the international communities’ response to COVID-19