Here are Copwatch’s #FCTCCOP11 articles, listed with the most recent first.
COP Live Day Five #COP11
Our observations and impressions from day five. Tick tock on the COP11 agenda, EU controversy, 800% budget increase, Kazakhstan gets too real, farewell and thank you to Good COP2.0
COP Live Day Four #COP11
Our observations and impressions from day four: Decisions, decisions!, pharma friends, helping #COP11 delegates quit smoking, inconvenient truths, and more.
COP Live Day Three #COP11
Our observations and impressions from day three: the chutzpah of GATC, Parties stand up for themselves, science denialism, what’s really in the documents, and more.
COP Live Day Two #COP11
Welcome back to Copwatch’s COP Live reporting on FCTCCOP11. Here we bring you our observations and impressions from day two.
COP Live Day One #COP11
Welcome to Copwatch’s COP Live reporting on FCTCCOP11. Here we bring you our observations and impressions on day one.
Copwatch’s preliminary journal #FCTCCOP11
Our readership, however, is mostly people who are denied entry to the official proceedings. So, here is Copwatch’s preliminary journal, with useful information for unofficial COP observers like us.
Philanthro-Colonialism to Be On Display at COP11
If the WHO FCTC truly values equity and participation, it must recognize the hypocrisy of allowing billionaire-backed NGOs to dominate the conversation while Indigenous voices are tokenized and marginalized. Harm reduction, when guided by communities rather than donors, is not an industry tool, it is liberation.
Dubiously Funded NGOs Queue Up to Mislead COP11 Delegates
The FCTC Secretariat has published the schedule for side events to be held during breaks at COP11 (It is downloadable at esta página). As you might expect, they promise to be a masterclass in manipulation.
Desperate FCTC Grandees Now Following the Anti-Vaxxer Playbook
The echo chamber becomes ever more enclosed
As the next Conference of the Parties meeting (COP11) approaches next week, planned activities arranged by the FCTC Secretariat are becoming increasingly unhinged.
The saga of Articles 9 and 10
Articles 9 and 10 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control cover the regulation of contents and disclosure of tobacco products. This will be discussed at the upcoming COP11 under agenda item 4.4. This article looks at some of the documents associated with this thorny agenda item, seeking enlightenment on why there has been so little progress.
FCTC bureaucrats have decided national delegations just get in the way
Unfortunately, when it comes to COP11 agenda item 4.4 concerning “Regulation of contents and disclosure of tobacco products” (Articles 9 & 10), the FCTC Secretariat seems to have forgotten that fundamental principle of the treaty.
The expert group with little expertise
Our attention was drawn to a rather unusual expert group convened to provide recommendations for COP agenda item 4.3 concerning “Protection of the environment and the health of persons.”
The Convention is not a ceiling! #FCTCCOP11
At COP10 it was decided to establish an expert group on ‘forward-looking’ tobacco control measures, to prepare a report to be submitted to COP11. The report will be discussed at the COP11 meeting in Geneva in November, at item 4.1 en el Provisional agenda.
Panama Doubles Down On Its COP10 Failure
There are many ways to embarrass your country on the world stage. You can forget an ally’s name at a press conference. You can mistake one country for another. Or, if you’re Dr. Roa, the incoming President of the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Secretariat no less, you can accuse the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of being under the thumb of Big Tobacco
#COP11 documents
Agenda item 4.5 signals that the FCTC Secretariat is doubling down on their opposition to harm reduction for smoking:
146 Conflicts of Interest
Copwatchers need only glance at the lists of accredited observers to COP10 to see that Bloomberg funded organizations dominate. At the same time, not one group representing people who smoke or who consume nicotine is allowed any access to delegations to put their case.
¿A la OMS le importa? Al parecer, no a la Organización Mundial de la Salud
Hablemos de Saima Wazed que actualmente preside actos oficiales como Director Regional de la OMS para Asia Sudoriental. Es impresionante. Sobre todo teniendo en cuenta que en Bangladesh, su país de origen, la Comisión Anticorrupción (ACC) no ha presentado ni una sola denuncia, pero dos casos contra ella por fraude, falsificación y abuso de poder, todo ello relacionado con su campaña para ese mismo cargo de la OMS.
La prohibición gana premios
La semana pasada, durante un acto paralelo a la Asamblea Mundial de la Salud, la Organización Mundial de la Salud repartió gongs to countries in honor of World No Tobacco Day 2025.
El Dr. Tedros admite que el Tratado CMCT tiene un "problema sistémico"
O lo haría, si fuera coherente.
Durante una rueda de prensa celebrada la semana pasada en la sede de la OMS, el Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, estuvo a punto de identificar un gran problema con el Convenio Marco para el Control del Tabaco.
La primera regla del recorte de gastos de la OMS es no hablar del recorte de gastos de la OMS
El último post de COPWatch informaba de cómo el Director General de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, el Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, se había embarcado recientemente en un régimen de recorte de gastos. Lamentablemente, sólo recortaba los gastos que él mismo se había impuesto. casi duplicando el número de Directores altamente remunerados desde su elección en 2017.
El Dr. Tedros intenta resolver un problema de su propia cosecha
Desde el anuncio del presidente Trump de que Estados Unidos retira toda su financiación a la Organización Mundial de la Salud, la máquina de dar vueltas de la OMS ha estado trabajando horas extras para mejorar su imagen.
"Dejar las cosas claras" sobre la desinformación de la OMS
Eso estaría muy bien si la OMS no hubiera sido pillada por el sistema de Notas Comunitarias de X mintiendo la grande en al menos dieciséis ocasiones diferentes sobre el vapeo.