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Good morning, this is Michelle. Gavi’s board has a new face that could provide clues as to the United States' plans for the vaccine alliance’s financial future.

The UN human rights chief qualified the killings of dozens of Palestinians seeking aid as a breach of international law. And do climate refugees need a new legal status to protect them?

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Michelle Langrand

04.06.2025


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💉Trump administration official Mark Kevin Lloyd joins Gavi board. His appointment comes at a time of widespread uncertainty over the United States’ funding of the organisation.

Devex (EN)

🌽Wilful restriction on Gaza food aid may constitute war crime, says UN rights office. The head of the agency, Volker Türk, urged a prompt and impartial investigation into each of these attacks, and for those responsible to be held to account.

Reuters (EN)

🌪️Climate refugees left in legal limbo. The creation of a specific status for climate refugees has proved elusive so far, even as more people are forced to leave their homes due to unliveable conditions.

Swissinfo (EN)

💥More than four million refugees have fled Sudan civil war. The UN’s refugee agency said the number of people who have fled into neighbouring Chad has more than tripled in just two years of the war.

Reuters (EN)

😶In Geneva, an unspoken retreat is underway. Geneva’s role as a global diplomatic hub is crumbling, and Switzerland seems ill-equipped to halt the trend, writes the journalist Alain Jourdan.

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