GLOBAL HEALTH LAW DISRUPTED: COVID-19 AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
ROYAL NETHERLANDS SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
ON FRIDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2021 AT 13:30 HRS CET
VENUE: THE HAGUE HUMANITY HUB
FLUWELEN BURGWAL 58, 2511 CJ THE HAGUE
(AND ACCESSIBLE ONLINE VIA ZOOM)
The COVID-19 pandemic painfully demonstrated that protecting health is of the utmost importance to humankind. Governments everywhere are struggling to deal with the pandemic, alongside their fight against persistent diseases such as malaria and against climate change, whose effects on health conditions are undeniable.
This year, the KNVIR focuses on several major issues in the area of global health law, a field of international law that has developed over a period of 70 years, with the World Health Organization as centrepiece.
At the annual meeting four reports will be presented, addressing the status of global health law, and some of its achievements and challenges. These will be discussed in the context of human rights law, international economic law and environmental law, making it clear that the concerns raised cannot be addressed separately. There may be lessons to be learned for the discipline of international law at large.
SPEAKERS:
PROF.MR DR BIRGIT C.A. TOEBES AND MEAGHAN BEYER, LL.M.
The Origins and Scope of Global Health Law
DR KATRINA PEREHUDOFF AND DR JENNIFER SELLIN
Innovation and Access to Medicines
MARLIES HESSELMAN, LL.M.
Climate Change as a Global Health Threat in International Climate Law and Human Rights Law
DR PEDRO VILLARREAL
International Health Law and Pandemics – Will COVID-19 be a Watershed?
At 13:30 hrs CET the Annual General Meeting of the KNVIR will be held, to which only members are admitted.
At 14:00 hrs CET the presentation of the reports will start, at which members and non-members are welcome.
The presentations and discussion will be held in English.
The printed version of the Collected Papers, containing the reports, has been published by T.M.C. Asser Press and may be ordered by non-members by applying to ln.re1728190294ssa@s1728190294serp1728190294 (price € 25.00 + p.&.p.). Members have received or will receive a copy of the Collected Papers via regular mail.
PLEASE NOTE: If you wish to attend the meeting, you are required to register by sending a message to gro.r1728190294ivnk@1728190294tcatn1728190294oc1728190294 no later than Monday 1 November 2021. When you register, please indicate whether you wish to attend in person – at The Hague Humanity Hub – or on-line.