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The Stellenbosch Consensus on the international legal obligation to collaborate and assist in addressing pandemics : clarifying Article 44 of the International Health Regulations
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Cinà, Margherita M., Hoffman, Steven J., Burci, Gian Luca, de Campos, Thana Cristina, Chirwa, Danwood, Dagron, Stéphanie, Eccleston-Turner, Mark, Forman, Lisa, Gostin, Lawrence O., Habibi, Roojin, Meier, Benjamin Mason, Negri, Stefania, Ooms, Gorik, Sekalala, Sharifah, Taylor, Allyn and Yamin, Alicia Ely (2020) The Stellenbosch Consensus on the international legal obligation to collaborate and assist in addressing pandemics : clarifying Article 44 of the International Health Regulations. International Organizations Law Review . pp. 1-30. doi:10.1163/15723747-2020024 ISSN 1572-3739.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/15723747-2020024
Abstract
The International Health Regulations (ihr), of which the World Health Organization is custodian, govern how countries collectively promote global health security, including prevention, detection, and response to potential global health emergencies such as the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. While Article 44 of this binding legal instrument requires countries to collaborate and assist each other in meeting their respective obligations, recent events demonstrate that the precise nature and scope of these legal obligations are ill-understood. A shared understanding of the level and type of collaboration legally required by the ihr is a necessary step in ensuring these obligations can be acted upon and fully realized, and in fostering global solidarity and resilience in the face of future pandemics. In this consensus statement, public international law scholars specializing in global health consider the legal meaning of Article 44 using the interpretive framework of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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Subjects: | K Law [Moys] > KA Jurisprudence K Law [Moys] > KC International Law R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | |||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | |||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969 May 23), Public health laws, International, Public health, World Health Organization, World health , Medical policy, Public health laws, Right to health | |||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Organizations Law Review | |||||||||
Publisher: | Brill ; Martinus Nijhoff Publishers | |||||||||
ISSN: | 1572-3739 | |||||||||
Official Date: | 2 December 2020 | |||||||||
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Page Range: | pp. 1-30 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.1163/15723747-2020024 | |||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 November 2021 | |||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 November 2021 | |||||||||
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