Ebola, WHO, and the United Nations: Convergence of Global Public Health and International Peace and Security
Ebola as an Unprecedented Threat to Peace and Security
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Health
Gulf War Reparations and the UN Compensation Commission: Environmental Liability
The right to humanitarian assistance (ASIL 2010)
The Regulation of Genetically Modified Foods
I. Introduction
The latest trade battle between the U.S. and the EU concerns genetically modified food (GMF), specifically plants and foods made from plants which have been genetically modified by the addition of genes from unrelated organisms. Plants used for food production have long been genetically modified in some manner. First through genetic evolution and later through selective breeding, both nature and man have altered the plants used in the food supply so that they have favorable growing and nutritional characteristics.
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Developments involving SARS, International Law, and Infectious Disease Control at the Fifty-Sixth Meeting of the World Health Assembly
Introduction
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8
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SARS and International Law
The outbreak of a new infectious disease-Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-in Asia and its spread to many countries in the Asian region and beyond raise many public health and policy questions and challenges for governments, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations. The SARS outbreak also implicates international law, and this Insight briefly discusses three areas of international law affected by SARS and the efforts to contain the spread of the disease.
Basic Information on the SARS Epidemic
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