The adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement by the World Health Assembly on 20 May 2025 was a landmark moment in global health ...

UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health Tlaleng Mofokeng on Thursday called on states to stop the targeting and killing of health and care workers and immediately release all health workers ...

On March 20, 2025, members of the World Health Organization adopted the ... Republican governors had signed a letter opposing the treaty, echoing a conservative think tank's concerns about U.S ...

The assembly, convened each May, sets the World Health Organization’s (WHO ... Member states agreed last month on a treaty to boost preparedness and responses to future pandemics, and they ...

But the timeline to achieve the goal was extended an extra five years in 2024 as other priorities pushed countries to divert resources away from implementing a World Health Organization treaty on ...

“The flags of non-Member Observer States at the United Nations shall be raised at the World Health Organization headquarters and WHO offices following the flags of the Member States of the World ...

GENEVA, May 26 (Reuters) - The Palestinian delegation won the right to fly their flag at the World Health Organization after a symbolic victory in a vote on Monday that its envoy hopes will lead ...

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The decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted a resolution to establish a global framework to support the diagnosis and management of rare diseases and promote ...

After 20 years of intense debate, the world looks set to have a treaty protecting marine life out beyond national waters.

It comes nearly a month after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. Mpox has infected an estimated 18,000 people and ...