NGOs express concern over growing corporate influence at the UN health body
More than 50 Civil Society Organizations have sent an open letter to the World Health Organization's Executive Board, meeting at the end of January in Geneva, to express their fears of a 'corporate takeover'. A proposed 'Framework for Engagement with Non-State Actors', which would set the rules for who can and can't contribute to WHO policy, has been under negotiation for several years now, and CSOs are unhappy with progress, which they say risks entrenching corporate influence. They say the WHO must decide whether it should stick to its mandate to work for people, or serve private-sector interests.
Published Friday 29 January 2016
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