WHO's chief warned that 'a torrent of mis- and disinformation' affects pandemic treaty negotiations restarting this week.
GENEVA (AN) — Negotiators are under pressure at their ninth round of talks on a proposed global pandemic treaty: the deadline for gaining its approval from the 194-nation World Health Assembly is two months away.
The latest round of talks opened on Monday as part of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body created by the World Health Organization in Dec. 2021, after the COVID-19 pandemic had nearly reached the two-year mark.
Climate scientists have warned for decades about bleaching of coral reefs, which are nurseries for commercial fisheries.
This year and next mark the countdown to a 2025 deadline for governments to strengthen their carbon-cutting plans.
The France-based court was created to uphold the European Convention on Human Rights, which took effect in 1953.
Negotiators and officials aim to wrap up so that May's 77th World Health Assembly can consider a proposed text.
Fourteen cases remain under investigation by U.N. investigators, who have met with authorities in Israel.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity has increased every year since 2019.
The group of organizations that reviewed the U.N. agency recommends several ways of strengthening its neutrality.
