Call for Ireland’s UN team to reject WHO’s ‘pandemic treaty’

Geoff Ward
3 min readFeb 21, 2024

Ireland’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Noel White, along with World Health Organisation negotiators, are being urged to reject the WHO’s ‘pandemic treaty’ over fears of a global ‘power grab’ and loss of established freedoms.

This comes as a new book, China, the Super Predator, warns that China, with its ruling Communist Party, is the controlling force behind the WHO.

A petition run by the conservative advocacy group CitizenGO, addressed to Mr White, as well as to delegates to the WHO’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB), states that the petition ‘comes from a place of deep concern for the future of global health governance and the preservation of individual freedoms and national sovereignty’, and has 420,000 signatures to date.

CitizenGO warns that WHO proposals, if approved, will allow enhanced control over countries, doctors, hospitals and other groups, impacting their decision-making, and reduce each country’s sovereignty and the individual’s right to decide on health. An ability to declare a pandemic would lead to controls on travel, communication, assembly and the workplace, while treaty measures to combat so-called misinformation would curb free speech.

Currently, the INB is in session until March 1 with the aim of pushing through key amendments to…

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Geoff Ward
Geoff Ward

Written by Geoff Ward

Writer, journalist, book editor, poet, musician and tutor in literature and creative writing (MA and BA Hons degrees in English literature).