The World Health Organization (WHO) is shutting down major parts of its operation as it continues to run out of funds. The WHO will be shutting down the Department of Policy, Law, and Human Rights. The WHO and its surrogates continue to appeal to nation-states to rescue it before it’s too late, but so far, there are no takers to that challenge.
Facing Existential Challenges, WHO Shuts Down its Policy, Law, and Human Rights Unit – madinamerica.com
“The Department of Policy, Law, and Human Rights at the World Health Organization is officially closed,” mental health podcaster and pianist Chad Lawson said in a video posted to Instagram on February 11. “Let that sit for a second.”
Lawson posted the video in response to an email announcing the closure from WHO unit staff Dr. Michelle Funk and Natalie Drew, which began circulating on February 10. The announcement prompted an outpouring of diverse responses from activists, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers around the world.
“I am not sure why I was shocked to see the WHO human rights unit shutting down,” Sera Davidow, co-founder of Roots Up, and who has provided guidance on rights-based support to the United Nations and WHO, told Mad in America via text message. “Yet shock was indeed my first reaction.”