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How Did Human Rights Fare in Amendments to the International Health Regulations?

Essays, Reflections, and Commentary

How Did Human Rights Fare in Amendments to the International Health Regulations, 52 J. L. Med. & Ethics 907-921 (2024) (with Lisa Forman, Judith Bueno de Mesquita, Luciano Bottini Filho, and Benjamin Mason Meier) (peer review)

In this article, we examine the relationship between the World Health  Organization International Health Regulations (IHR) and human rights and  its implications for IHR reform, considering the evolution of human  rights in the 2005 IHR, the role of human rights in IHR reforms and the  implications of these reforms in key domains including equity and  solidarity, medical countermeasures, core capacities, travel  restrictions, vaccine certificates, social measures, accountability, and  financing.

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