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CHAPTER F-2
The Plausibility and Resolvability
of Legal Claims Against China
and WHO under the International
Health Regulations (2005)
Sam Halabi* and Kumanan Wilson**
Abstract
Since the declaration of a public health emergency of international
concern by the World Health Organization on January 30, 2020, accu-
sations have been levelled against both the World Health Organization
(WHO) and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for failures to ade-
quately and effectively notify the world about the COVID-19 threat.
These accusations have been followed by calls for international
sanctions, withdrawal of contributions to WHO’s work, and multi-
lateral calls for investigations into the pandemic’s origins. Against
a backdrop of increasingly bellicose rhetoric from governments,
this chapter sets forth the most straightforward legal framework for
resolving disputes about PRC and WHO actions: the International
Health Regulations (2005). All disputing parties are members of the
agreement, which provides specific mechanisms for dispute resolu-
tion. The chapter carefully assembles the known timeline from the
outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, PRC, to the PRC’s noti-
fication to WHO, to actions taken thereafter. It identifies the possible
* Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law at the University of Missouri as well
as a scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at
Georgetown University.
** Specialist in general internal medicine, and senior scientist at The Ottawa
Hospital, innovation advisor at Bruyère Research Institute, and Professor of
Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
VULNERABLE
The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Titel
- VULNERABLE
- Untertitel
- The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Autoren
- Vanessa MacDonnell
- Jane Philpott
- Sophie Thériault
- Sridhar Venkatapuram
- Verlag
- Ottawa Press
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 9780776636429
- Abmessungen
- 15.2 x 22.8 cm
- Seiten
- 648
- Kategorien
- Coronavirus
- International