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U.S. absent as World Health Assembly adopts pandemic treaty

WASHINGTON, D.C. May 23 (C-Fam) The governing body of the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the text of a pandemic agreement that has been under negotiation since the COVID-19 pandemic.  Notably absent from the meeting was the United States, which withdrew from the WHO following the election of President Donald Trump earlier this year.

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Pandemic Treaty Falters, Stand Off Between Rich and Poor

The much-touted global pandemic accord was dealt a severe blow this week as countries could not agree on over half of the thirty-four articles of the draft treaty in time for the World Health Assembly this week.

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Latest Draft of WHO Pandemic Treaty Revealed

The Biden administration failed to get an explicit reference to abortion or “sexual and reproductive health” in the latest draft of a new international pandemic treaty. The treaty nonetheless grants broad new swaths of power to the pro-abortion World Health Organization.

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Congressmen Worry New Pandemic Treaty May Silence Critics

Members of Congress and civil society leaders met the press this week to warn the country about a pandemic treaty the World Health Organization is drafting (WHO).

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ANALYSIS: The Bureaucratic Threat of a New Pandemic Treaty

The real threat of the new World Health Organization pandemic treaty is not just legal, it is above all bureaucratic.

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Biden Pushes Abortion and Secrecy in New Pandemic Treaty

The Biden administration has pushed for abortion in a controversial new global health treaty.

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US and China Agree to Keep Pandemic Treaty Negotiations Secret

The U.S. backed a proposal by China to prevent the public from seeing what positions governments take in negotiations over a new WHO treaty on pandemic prevention and preparedness this…

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Concerns About the WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty

Negotiations are underway to create a Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Accord, a binding multilateral agreement for coordinating pandemic preparedness and response.  The accord is set to be finalized in May 2024.  However, there are several concerning aspects of the process, including a lack of transparency, the creation of new bureaucratic mechanisms with little accountability, the transfer of power to the World Health Organization (WHO), and the likely inclusion of language that would open the door to the accord being used to promote controversial social issues, including abortion.

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Five Problems with the WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty

The Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Accord, commonly known as the “WHO Pandemic Treaty,” not only extends greater power to the World Health Organization (WHO) to reallocate pandemic resources from member states and targets “misinformation” opposed to its own narrative, but also carries consequences for families and the unborn.

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International Body Begins to Draft New Pandemic Preparedness Treaty

Member states of the World Health Organization approved a blueprint for a treaty on pandemic preparedness that could be used to promote abortion and gender ideology.

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WHO Adopts Pandemic Censorship Rules

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially adopted social control rules pioneered by Western governments during COVID, most alarmingly censorship of critics. These new rules come as amendments to an agreement known as the International Health Regulations.

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State Attorneys General Warn Biden About WHO Pandemic Agreements

Twenty-two attorney generals have told President Joe Biden they oppose the World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic treaty and international health regulations because it gives the WHO “unprecedented and unconstitutional powers over the United States and her people.”

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What the UN Treaty Bodies Did this Year

After a year of having their meetings limited by the pandemic, the UN’s human rights treaty monitoring bodies resumed their work reviewing countries’ human rights records in 2022.  These UN bodies were quite aggressive in promoting abortion, homosexuality, and transgenderism.

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Cash-Strapped Treaty Bodies Expand Pro-Abortion Lobbying Amid Calls for Reform

Last week, the chairmen of the committees monitoring compliance with the UN’s human rights treaties issued a warning that their work is threatened by underfunding.

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Controversial WHO Negotiations Spill into Public View

The secret negotiations of a new WHO pandemic treaty spilled over into an open procedural debate last month, exposing wide disagreements about the scope of the pandemic treaty, how it should be implemented, and how it will be financed.

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U.S. Rejects International Health Regulations Championed by Biden, With Italy and Israel

WASHINGTON DC, July 25 (C-FAM) The Trump administration rejected a set of amendments to the International Health Regulations, a key part of the Biden-backed World Health Organization’s (WHO) pandemic response framework. Italy and Israel joined the Trump administration in rejecting the amendments.

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Five Worst Moments of the Year

Here are the worst moments of the year 2023 in review. Some are real doozies. They will have implications for the next decade and beyond.

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U.S. Faces Major Pro-Life Test at UN

UNITED NATIONS, December 5 (C-Fam) The Trump administration faces its biggest international pro-life test to date. Next week, UN member states are expected to adopt a UN resolution that guides…

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Submission to the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of Oman, 51st Session of the UPR, Human Rights Council – January 2026

UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW – FOURTH CYCLE Submission to the 51st session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group January 2026, Geneva, Switzerland   OMAN The Center for…

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Estados Unidos ausente mientras la Asamblea Mundial de la Salud adopta el tratado sobre pandemias

El organismo directivo de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) aprobó el texto de un acuerdo sobre pandemias que se ha estado negociando desde el inicio de la pandemia de COVID-19. Cabe destacar la ausencia en la reunión de Estados Unidos, que se retiró de la OMS tras la elección del presidente Donald Trump a principios de este año.

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The UN’s Worst of 2024

NEW YORK, December 27 (C-Fam) It may take years to find out all the damage inflicted on life and family by the Biden administration and the European Union over the…

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UN/Biden Use “Anti-Rights” Label to Punish Critics

Does opposing abortion as a human right make you “anti-rights?” What about opposing gender ideology? To many on the left at the international level, the answer is a resounding yes. And they want to do something about these “anti-rights” groups.

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A Poison Pill in the Right to Development

In October 2023, the Human Rights Council decided to transmit the draft text of a treaty on the right to development to the General Assembly (A/HRC/RES/54/18, OP 17). The purpose of the new treaty is to affirm the sovereignty of developing countries and their right to pursue their economic and social development without interference from former colonial powers.

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Petition for the resignation of the head of the World Health Organization (WHO)

Petition for the resignation of the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Demand Resignation of World Health Organization Director-General The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros…

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Congress Asks WHO to Reject Radical Anti-Life Group

Members of the U.S. Congress threatened to cut U.S. funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) if the global health body enters into official relations with controversial abortion and sexual rights law firm, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR).

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