Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report on Thursday accusing Eritrean troops and Tigrayan militia of raping and killing Eritrean refugees living in northern Ethiopia.
Rich countries with large supplies of coronavirus vaccines should refrain from offering booster shots through the end of the year and make the doses available for poorer countries, the head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
Hans Kluge, European regional director for the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), said Monday that booster shots for already vaccinated people are an important tool for protecting the most vulnerable from the Chinese coronavirus.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday urged the international community to delay rollouts of Chinese coronavirus booster shots in an effort to save the global vaccine supply for poorer nations.
A “shocked” China launched an unprecedented stream of invective against the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Thursday after the U.N. subsidiary confirmed it will enact plans to audit Chinese labs as part of further investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
A proposal from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) for a new audit of Chinese laboratories previously linked to the first outbreaks of the coronavirus was rejected Monday by Beijing. Instead China claimed the U.S. poses greater dangers and should be the source of future lines of inquiry.
China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday reported that over half a million “Chinese netizens” have signed a petition calling on the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) to investigate the U.S. Army Medical Research institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Ft. Detrick as a potential origin location of the Chinese coronavirus.
The director-general of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) begged China on Thursday to cooperate with the second phase of the investigation into the origins of coronavirus.
The global death toll attributed to the coronavirus pandemic has topped four million and is still climbing, according to figures released Thursday by Johns Hopkins University.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology did keep live bats on its premises, a report by Sky News Australia revealed Sunday, contradicting the World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) which has always maintained such suggestions are a conspiracy.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced the debut Monday of what it claimed to be a “simple, easy to say and remember” system for naming variants of the Chinese coronavirus, currently referred to by their origin countries.
Despite declining infection rates there is no time for the world to relax its fight against the coronavirus, leaders at the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and in the U.S. warned Monday.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who hails from the troubled Tigray region of Ethiopia, on Monday denounced the situation in his home country as “very horrific” due to “rampant” starvation, violence, population displacement, and rape.
The Associated Press reported on Friday that donors to the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and diplomats from member nations are voicing “serious concerns” about sexual abuse allegations emanating from W.H.O.’s mission to fight the 2018-2019 Ebola epidemic in the Congo.
ROME (AP) – A top World Health Organization official has strongly denied making false statements to Italian prosecutors about a spiked UN report into Italy’s coronavirus response, doubling down on his assertions in court documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned on Thursday remarks by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro suggesting that “chemical, bacterial, and radiological warfare” could explain the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, appearing to accuse Beijing of launching an attack.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and the man behind the U.N. agency’s stumbling response to the coronavirus pandemic, is ready to seek another five-year leadership term.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday attacked World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for urging further investigation into the possibility that a laboratory leak in Wuhan was the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg condemned “high-income countries” in remarks before the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Monday for vaccinating young, healthy citizens against Chinese coronavirus rather than donating vaccine doses to at-risk populations abroad.
Dr. Francesco Zambon, formerly a senior employee of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), accused W.H.O. on Wednesday of forcing him to change a report on Italy’s early response to the coronavirus pandemic.
A Chinese “expert” told state media Wednesday that a laboratory leak in the United States was a potential “likely” explanation for the origin of the Chinese coronavirus, a conspiracy theory the Chinese Foreign Ministry has promoted for months without evidence.
An editorial in the Chinese government-run propaganda publication Global Times condemned World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday after Tedros urged a more thorough investigation into the theory the Chinese coronavirus escaped from a laboratory.
On the same day the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) finally released its report into the origins of coronavirus and posited the theory China may not be responsible, the organization’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus revived a claim it could have leaked from a lab in Wuhan as all options remain open.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday said a W.H.O. investigation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, published in a report on Tuesday, was not “extensive enough.”
Former New York City mayor and failed 2020 Democratic Party presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg has a new title: as of Wednesday he can once more boast of the approval of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) as one of its specially chosen “Global Ambassadors.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked Britain to pause vaccinations once at-risk groups are inoculated, so doses can be “fairly distributed” overseas.
A host of U.N. agencies lined up Thursday to applaud Joe Biden’s ascension to the White House, scarcely suppressing their glee that U.S. taxpayer dollars will once more be flowing their way.
China and the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) were slow and ineffective in their response to the first stages of the coronavirus outbreak, an damning interim report released Tuesday concludes.
The world must share coronavirus vaccines more equally rather than risk taking the planet to the “brink of a catastrophic moral failure” through abhorrent “vaccine nationalism,” the chief of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) lamented Monday.
Twelve months ago today the World Health Organisation (WHO) reassured the world on the then-new coronavirus outbreak.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday he was “very disappointed” in China’s refusal to grant access for a ten-member team of experts to investigate the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus, even though China previously agreed to the mission and several of the members are already in transit.
A “top level” mission to China to determine the exact origins of the coronavirus pandemic has ended before it began, with the head of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) complaining Beijing is refusing entry to investigators.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and its workers were warmly applauded by chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a video message Thursday, with the career Ethiopian bureaucrat specifically offering “holiday” rather than “Christmas” season greetings throughout.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) confirmed on Wednesday that it would send a team to Wuhan, China, in January to investigate the origins of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic – eight months after the Communist Party of China admitted it had destroyed all the evidence it had collected there.
The head of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus faces a call for prosecution over his alleged involvement in directing security forces in his Ethiopian homeland.
“Will & Grace” star and LGBTQ advocate Debra Messing aimed a gay insult at President Donald Trump in a recent tweet, saying that she hopes he goes to jail where he will become “the most popular boyfriend” among the inmates.
The chief of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is willing to publicly receive a coronavirus vaccination, joining former U.S. Presidents George Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a display of trust in the process.
Six months after the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) trumpeted a “full, thorough and transparent probe” into the origins of the coronavirus, China on Monday pledged cooperation with the official investigation team – when it finally gains entry to the country.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issued a statement on Thursday denying allegations from the government of Ethiopia that he is secretly backing the Tigray rebels in his home country’s steadily escalating civil war.
Ethiopian Army Chief of Staff Berhanu Jula gave a televised address on Wednesday in which he denounced Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a longtime member of the Ethiopian government but currently head of the World Health Organization (WHO), as a “criminal” for supporting the Tigray separatists who are fighting against the government in Addis Ababa. Berhanu called on Tedros to step down from his position at WHO, which did not immediately respond to his allegations.