The treaty takes aim at the huge inequalities in health care and access to products that the COVID-19 pandemic brought into sharp focus.
GENEVA (AN) – Negotiators hammered out language towards a new draft of the World Health Organization's proposed pandemic treaty, but it remains far from ratification.
The meeting report approved on Friday after several days of talks, including portions conducted behind closed doors, calls for further "informal intercessional work" among parties that have a stake in the process. After lengthy debate about whether to call for input from "proponents" or "experts," text to that effect was deleted.
Record heat and rightward political shifts toward nationalist self-interest undermine efforts to cut fossil fuel dependence.
WHO's emergency moves follow months of warnings the U.N. health agency faces severe impacts if U.S. funding dries up.
The process of forcing the United States to withdraw from the Paris climate treaty and WHO will take a year to complete.
The U.N. weather agency says the Paris Agreement's long-term temperature goal is "not yet dead but in grave danger."
The Trump administration's erosion of U.S. policy as Europe's main protector played out in a series of U.N. votes on Ukraine.
The coalition Merz forms will greatly influence his ability to govern the country or to strengthen multilateral institutions.
Trump's embrace of Putin and contempt for long-established transatlantic ties is an existential crisis for Europe and NATO.
More than 30 years later, Ukraine is fighting for its survival as it laments the Budapest Memorandum's broken promises.
