Just months ago, we watched as the pandemic treaty failed to cross the finish line and was punted to the World Health Assembly (WHA) in May 2024. But we all knew the game wasn’t over. Globalists have gone into overtime – and into overdrive. The U.S. elections on Tuesday, November 5 will determine who sits in the White House in January, and the WHO wants a pandemic treaty agreement by then. Remember, Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the WHO, and the Biden-Harris administration put us right back in – and then championed the treaty and IHR amendments.
On one hand, it matters who’s in the White House when it comes to globalist goals. On the other hand, it doesn’t matter, because our rights don’t come from the White House. Our local community leaders, our governors, and our attorneys general are the ones who hold the line to protect our God-given rights.
Where do treaty negotiations stand now?
The Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) is set to meet again November 4-15, 2024. Their agenda includes “agreement on the proposed WHO Pandemic Agreement.”1 The blog Geneva Health Files (a boots-on-the-ground reporter who has been vigilant in the global health trenches) has sources saying there may be a special session of the World Health Assembly on December 18-20, 2024, to adopt the treaty.2 Under the rules of procedure, the meeting should be confirmed by November 12, 2024.
Treaty Refresh
When agreement wasn’t reached at the World Health Assembly in May 2024, it was decided to continue negotiations for a year until the next WHA, with an agreement sooner if possible. WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus welcomed the INB back to session after the May WHA by encouraging a fast agreement. He said they could reach consensus quickly if they “prioritize public health over other considerations.”
Let’s dig into that statement a little because it’s an acknowledgement that the WHO is overstepping its bounds. What “other considerations” are appropriate for the WHO to oversee? There have been major disagreements under the umbrella of “equity” about financing, about manufacturing, and about sharing pathogens and research on pandemic products.
Also, it turns out the One Health approach is a fly in the ointment for many countries and is holding up the treaty. In short, there’s a tug of war over what the One Health bucket can hold and when that will be revealed. There’s now a push for countries to reach an agreement and to fill in the One Health details later by adding an annex. This is the blank check we predicted in May. We can expect the pandemic treaty to have a lot of gaps.
Why is this happening? Why is there a push to get a legally binding agreement as quickly as possible and with so many holes? In short, it’s much harder to defeat something that’s already in place than it is to stop something from being adopted.
U.N. General Assembly 79 and the Pact for the Future
We cannot forget the World Health Organization is an arm of the United Nations. And the parent organization had a backup plan when the treaty failed to pass in short order. Nestled into the plans for its annual Sustainable Development Goals meetings in New York in September was an ace in the hole called the Pact for the Future. Plans for this agreement have been in the works for about three years now and culminated as an agreement by “consensus” in September 2024, “despite a last-minute proposal for an amendment by some countries,” according to the U.N.3
Some people are calling the Pact for the Future an end-run around the treaty. It covers more than health but is relevant to global health because it includes data sharing and surveillance provisions, censorship, and an “emergency platform” for “complex global shocks” that would include health-related declarations.4 The words “health” or “healthy” are mentioned 24 times in the 56-page document. The Global Digital Compact annex envisions a “digital future for all,” which is complimentary to the U.N.’s push for digital identities as a human right and its “legal identity agenda” (in its own words).5 They’ve also promised to accelerate financing of the Sustainable Development Goals, and 14 of the 17 goals relate to vaccination.
G20
Leaders from around the globe will meet in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 18-19,2024. The president of the host country has expressed hope that the leaders will agree on two watershed declarations: One Health and Climate, and local vaccines and medicines production.6
What’s the significance of the G20 meeting? The meeting is not binding; it does not create law. But the leaders making these nonbinding handshake deals in this forum are also sitting across from each other in places like the United Nations and the World Health Organization. Will they come up with different policies there if they’ve got a “gentleman’s agreement” in the G20? It looks like there is a goal among the G20 to support a global governance through the United Nations. G20 leaders met in New York during the U.N. General Assembly, and they did so as a symbolic statement of support for the U.N. at the “heart of the multilateral system.”7
Stand for Health Freedom wrote about the G20 in 2022, in Who’s calling the shots? when President Biden agreed to the Bali Declaration, which called for vaccine passports for international travel, against the will of the American people.
Working toward global governance with the U.N. at the center is one of three pillars that currently guide the G20 as a whole.8
They’re not even trying to hide it, folks. Brazilian president Luiz Lula, head of the country hosting the G20 this year, declared the Pact for the Future is an “important step” in reestablishing trust that will put the U.N. “at the center of global governance.”
Conclusion
These are just some of the highlights of globalist gatherings and plans related to a health-based surveillance state. Stand for Health Freedom will be watching the upcoming COP29, the 29th annual Conference of the Parties on climate policy for the U.N., which is slated to have its second-ever Health Day and launch a new coalition aimed at “embedding health into climate action on a permanent basis.”9
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References
- “TWELFTH MEETING OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL NEGOTIATING BODY TO DRAFT AND NEGOTIATE A WHO CONVENTION, AGREEMENT OR OTHER INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENT ON PANDEMIC PREVENTION, PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE.” World Health Organization, (2024). https://apps.who.int/gb/inb/pdf_files/inb12/A_inb12_1-en.pdf. ↩︎
- Patnaik, Priti . “Renewed Push for A December Deadline To Conclude The Pandemic Agreement.” Geneva Health Files, (2024). https://genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/renewed-push-for-december-deadline-pandemic-agreement-world-health-organization-inb-geneva-2024-tedros-africa-group-pabs-ip-tech-transfer-world-health-assembky-special-session. ↩︎
- Mishra, Vibhu. “Pact for the Future: World Leaders Pledge Action for Peace, Sustainable Development.” UN News, (2024). https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1154671. ↩︎
- “The Pact for the Future.” U.N. General Assembly 79, (2024). (Action 54) https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ltd/n24/252/89/pdf/n2425289.pdf. ↩︎
- “United Nations Legal Identity Agenda.” U.N. Statistics Division. https://unstats.un.org/legal-identity-agenda/ ↩︎
- Fletcher, Elaine R. “Brazil Aims for G20 Declarations on Climate & One Health and Local Medicines Production at Rio Summit.” Health Policy Watch, (2024). https://healthpolicy-watch.news/brazil-leading-g20-declarations-on-climate-one-health-and-local-medicines-production-for-rio-summit/. ↩︎
- “Lula Urges G20 to Lead on Hunger, Climate Change, New Global Governance.” Government of Brazil, (2024). https://www.gov.br/planalto/en/latest-news/2024/09/lula-urges-g20-to-lead-on-hunger-climate-change-new-global-governance. ↩︎
- “Lula Urges G20 to Lead on Hunger, Climate Change, New Global Governance.” Government of Brazil, (2024). https://www.gov.br/planalto/en/latest-news/2024/09/lula-urges-g20-to-lead-on-hunger-climate-change-new-global-governance. ↩︎
- “Health at COP29.” World Health Organization, (2024). https://www.who.int/teams/environment-climate-change-and-health/climate-change-and-health/advocacy-partnerships/talks/health-at-cop29/. ↩︎