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WEBINAR | W.H.O. and the Perils of the PABS System

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The WHO’s Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (“PABS”) System is scheduled to be voted upon at the World Health Assembly in Geneva from May 18 to 23, 2026 – less than a month from now.

The stated purpose of the PABS System is to “promot[e] the rapid and timely sharing of ‘materials and sequence information on pathogens with pandemic potential.’”  (Article 12 of the Pandemic Treaty). This system threatens to concentrate the world’s most deadly pathogens into the hands of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats under the influence of the pharmaceutical industry.  The WHO may then share these pathogens with labs all over the world, ostensibly to develop vaccines, diagnostics and other therapeutics.

This system risks escalating the chances of pandemics caused by lab leaks, as well as bio-terrorist attacks. These in turn will likely increase the profits of the pharmaceutical industry and will give governments so inclined the pretext to keep people under lockdown and deprive them of their human rights.  In addition, the PABS Annex contains no restriction against dangerous gain-of-function research.

Our panel of experts has set forth the definitive briefing on the dangers of PABS, the reason that the System as it is presently designed is “legally indefensible,” and the way that the PABS System functions in a multinational biohub architecture.

  • Reggie Littlejohn, Panelist and Moderator, J.D., M.Div, is an attorney from the U.S.  She is founder and president of Anti-Globalist International and Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, as well as co-founder of the Sovereignty Coalition.
  • Silvia Behrendt, Ph.D., Panelist, is an Austrian legal scholar specializing in international health law and the International Health Regulations (IHR), with both academic and practical experience at the World Health Organization (WHO). She is currently director of the Global Health Responsibility Agency (GHRA), Salzburg, Austria; former legal consultant to IHR Secretariat at WHO.
  • Astrid Stuckelberger, Ph.D., Panelist, is a Swiss public health scientist and author specializing in ageing, longevity, and international health policy, with over three decades of research experience linked to WHO and UN agencies.  A former Privat-Docent at the University of Geneva’s Faculty of Medicine, she has published numerous books and some 180–200 scientific and policy papers.

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