Illustration: Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
These agreements provide models for global health diplomacy, advancing WHO's historic normative mission ( figure Each instrument is grounded in a different constitutional function: Article 19 (Conventions), Article 21 (Regulations), and Article 23 (Recommendations). 2 Although WHO principally exercises normative authority through soft law (codes of practice, action plans, and recommendations), the organisation oversees three major international legal instruments: The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), International Health Regulations (IHR), and the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework. The WHO Constitution grants the organisation extensive normative authority ( panel 1 New governance strategies would assure the instruments' success, providing an essential roadmap for the new WHO Director-General.
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Here, as a prelude to the Commission's full report, we examine and offer reforms for this global health law trilogy. The Lancet-O'Neill Institute, Georgetown University Commission on Global Health and the Law aims to demonstrate the power of law to achieve global health with justice.