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cord-024885-6gsnmegj	Eccleston-Turner, Mark	The Law of Responsibility and the World Health Organisation: A Case Study on the West African Ebola Outbreak	2020-05-16		.txt	text/plain	9010	420	50	In the meantime, we present four claims: first, that the WHO is a distinct legal actor on the international stage capable of incurring responsibility for its actions; second, that the WHO does not merely have the power to declare a PHEIC, but also 11 See 'Foreword' and Article 2 World Health Organisation, 'International Health Regulations' (2005) . The first element of this obligation to declare may have been eventually fulfilled but (as we will argue in a moment), the failure to declare the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak a PHEIC in a timely fashion was not, and therefore constitutes an internationally wrongful act, for which responsibility ought to arise on the part of the Organisation. Rather, numerous obligations are identified within the Constitution of the World Health Organisation, in particular Articles 2(v), (a) and (g) of the Functions, and an external agreement with the African Congress, which when taken together would create the legal obligation pursuant upon the WHO to declare the West African Ebola outbreak PHEIC and, secondly, to do so in a timely fashion.	./cache/cord-024885-6gsnmegj.txt	./txt/cord-024885-6gsnmegj.txt