Individual representatives of 130 countries totalling 610 million people can change the IHR's – small countries have more than 12 times the voting leverage as large ones

The World Health Assembly consists of 194 member States.

The World Health Assembly sets a budget, instructs the Executive to implement its decisions and appoints the Director General of the WHO.

Some details here: World Health Assembly (who.int)

The World Health Assembly is one member state/country = one vote with a two thirds majority required to ratify a decision.

Two thirds of 184 member states/countries = 130 votes.

Here’s a link to its Constitution and the relevant Articles. :

basic-documents-constitution-of-who.pdf

Taking population data per country from Worldometer, dropping off the smallest countries so that 194 countries remain (37 of the smallest countries/states dropped off) we can construct a proxy for the 194 voting member stats/countries.

There is no detail on what constitutes a quorum, so it could be that just a dozen members present – just 8 votes in favour and “wham, bam, thank-you ma’am” the Assembly of 194 has voted.

The number of member countries required for a two thirds majority is 130 votes.

The smallest 130 countries have a population that totals around 610 million people. The largest of these countries in this bottom 66% is 17 million or so; The average country size is just 4.7 million people.

How can it be that 610 million people can outvote the other 7.4 billion people on planet earth?

The United Nations and its organs, like the WHO, pride themselves on equity.

Smaller nations have more than 12 times the voting leverage as large countries based on population equity. Certainly, would be far from a single country to get their way by “buying” the votes of 130 smaller countries – or form blocs that do the same. The WHO does this itself by organizing I regional blocs.

From here:

World Health Assembly re-elects Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to second term as WHO Director-General

“WHO Member States today re-elected Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to serve a second five-year term as Director-General of the world’s leading public health agency. Dr Tedros was first elected in 2017.

His re-election was confirmed during the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva. He was the sole candidate.”

Uh huh. Out of all the people in all the world without a medical degree, Tadros was the sole candidate.

In what electoral system, other than a dictatorship does this happen?

Onwards!!!

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