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The World Health Organization (https://www.who.int/) — the UN agency responsible for international public health. Incidents involve U.S. withdrawal from or defunding of WHO, undermining global pandemic preparedness and health coordination.
3 incidents
Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation
Repeated strikes near an operating reactor in a city of 250,000 raise serious concerns under the customary duty to take particular care around installations containing dangerous forces (ICRC Rule 42). Imagery places the April impacts on an anti-aircraft site outside the plant fence; attribution of each strike is not independently confirmed, and no body has found that the plant itself was targeted.
Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
A sustained pattern of strikes on Iranian hospitals, ambulances, and medical infrastructure has killed healthcare workers and forced the evacuation of six hospitals. The WHO verified 18 attacks on health sites through mid-March 2026, documenting systematic damage to protected medical facilities including Gandhi Hospital and Iranian Red Crescent centers. WHO counted 21 attacks on health workers and facilities by late March, with 17 Red Crescent centres struck and nearly 100 ambulances damaged or destroyed.
Grade 2 of 5: Major Abuse of Power
The US left the WHO on January 22, 2026 without paying what it owed for 2024 and 2025, about $260–270 million according to the WHO and the UN. The 1948 joint resolution that authorized US membership makes the right to withdraw conditional on meeting US financial obligations for the WHO's current fiscal year. HHS says the US is under no obligation to pay.