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The World Health Organization has been campaigning again.
This time the issue is obesity. According to the WHO, governments should tackle the problem by restricting the marketing of unhealthy food, taxing sugary drinks, encouraging walking and cycling, and teaching children healthier habits from a young age.
Some of this is simply common sense. Most people would agree that exercise matters, that unhealthy food and drink should be enjoyed in moderation, and that parents play the central role in teaching children healthy habits.
But that is not really the point.
What the WHO is doing here is lobbying governments to adopt specific tax and regulatory policies. Decisions about taxation, advertising rules and public policy are matters for sovereign countries and their elected governments.
Yet this has become routine behaviour for the WHO as it increasingly uses its platform and its funding to campaign for countries to adopt particular policy outcomes.
Even after the United States took the sovereign decision to leave the WHO, the organisation has continued to work around that decision. Recently, it allowed the US state of Wisconsin to join the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), alongside other Democrat-controlled states such as Illinois, California and New York, as well as New York City.
The WHO often insists it is “member-state led”, but when a member state makes a decision it does not like, the organisation seems perfectly happy to sidestep that government.
Dr Tedros likes to call it “your WHO”, but in reality, it belongs to the global elite!