WHO Negotiations To Continue On Non-State Actors 21/07/2015 by Intellectual Property Watch, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) The views expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and are not associated with Intellectual Property Watch. IP-Watch expressly disclaims and refuses any responsibility or liability for the content, style or form of any posts made to this forum, which remain solely the responsibility of their authors. Third World Network reports: New Delhi, 20 July (K M Gopakumar) – Member States of the World Health Organization have decided to continue the negotiations on a Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors (FENSA) as several key issues remain unresolved. The second Open-ended Intergovernmental Meeting (OEIGM) was held 8-10 July at the WHO’s Headquarters in Geneva. The 68th World Health Assembly in May 2015 through a resolution requested the Director-General “to convene as soon as possible, and no later than October 15, an open-ended intergovernmental meeting to finalize the draft framework of engagement with non-State actors on the basis of progress made during the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly.” For the full story, see here. ————————— TWN Info Service on Health Issues (Jul15/02) 17 July 2015 WHO: Concerns that “official relations” are used for promoting business interests Geneva, 16 July (TWN) – The collaboration work plan that the World Health Organization (WHO) entered into with some non-State actors reveals that it will be used to pursue business interests. This work plan is necessary to establish an official relationship with the WHO. Until recently collaboration work plans between non-governmental organisations and WHO were not available in the public domain. Only in 2015 did WHO remove the restricted status of the documentation submitted for the consideration of the Standing Committee on Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) on the basis of a proposal made at the 134th session of the Executive Board. This is in paragraph 28 of EB 134 /8: http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB134/B134_8-en.pdf). For the full story, see here. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Related Intellectual Property Watch may be reached at info@ip-watch.org."WHO Negotiations To Continue On Non-State Actors" by Intellectual Property Watch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.