The Stellenbosch Consensus on the International Legal Obligation to Collaborate and Assist in Addressing Pandemics

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International Organizations Law Review Pub Date : 2020-12-02 DOI:10.1163/15723747-2020024

Margherita M. Cinà, S. Hoffman, G. Burci, T. C. D. Campos, Danwood Chirwa, Stéphanie Dagron, Mark Eccleston-Turner, L. Forman, L. Gostin, Roojin Habibi, B. Meier, S. Negri, G. Ooms, S. Sekalala, Allyn L. Taylor, A. Yamin

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Abstract

The International Health Regulations (ihr), of which the World Health Organization is custodian, govern how countries collectively promote global health security, including prevention, detection, and response to potential global health emergencies such as the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. While Article 44 of this binding legal instrument requires countries to collaborate and assist each other in meeting their respective obligations, recent events demonstrate that the precise nature and scope of these legal obligations are ill-understood. A shared understanding of the level and type of collaboration legally required by the ihr is a necessary step in ensuring these obligations can be acted upon and fully realized, and in fostering global solidarity and resilience in the face of future pandemics. In this consensus statement, public international law scholars specializing in global health consider the legal meaning of Article 44 using the interpretive framework of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

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关于合作和协助应对流行病的国际法律义务的斯泰伦博斯共识

由世界卫生组织管理的《国际卫生条例》规定了各国如何共同促进全球卫生安全，包括预防、发现和应对潜在的全球卫生突发事件，如正在发生的covid-19大流行。虽然这项具有约束力的法律文书第44条要求各国在履行各自义务方面相互合作和协助，但最近的事件表明，人们对这些法律义务的确切性质和范围并不了解。对《国际卫生条例》法律要求的协作水平和类型的共同理解，是确保能够履行和充分履行这些义务，以及在面对未来大流行病时促进全球团结和复原力的必要步骤。在这份协商一致声明中，专门研究全球卫生问题的国际公法学者利用《维也纳条约法公约》的解释框架审议了第44条的法律含义。

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期刊介绍： After the Second World War in particular, the law of international organizations developed as a discipline within public international law. Separate, but not separable. The International Organizations Law Review purports to function as a discussion forum for academics and practitioners active in the field of the law of international organizations. It is based on two pillars; one is based in the world of scholarship, the other in the world of practice. In the first dimension, the Journal focuses on general developments in international institutional law.