US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Health Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, 24 June 2025. (Keystone/EPA/Shawn Thew)

💉RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort. In a recorded message delivered at Gavi’s pledging summit in Brussels yesterday, the US health secretary said his country will not contribute to the vaccine organisation anymore “until it has re-earnt public trust”.

📜Former Swiss president joins international call for defence of ‘massacred’ UN Charter. Hundreds of former UN officials and heads of state have made an urgent plea to reclaim the values ​​of the founding UN document, which was signed on this day 80 years ago, and denounced “the systematic dismantling of the rule of law”.

🇪🇷Eritrea seeks to end mandate of UN expert investigating abuses, document shows. The country showed up with a large delegation to Geneva on Monday at Human Rights Council negotiations in a bid to end the mandate of the special rapporteur on Eritrea, who is backed by western states.

⚙️Opinion: In defence of reformed multilateralism. “Against a backdrop of divisive politics and mistrust among major powers, the Pact for the Future can be a proxy for the defence of reformed multilateralism,” write two experts from the US think tank Stimson Center.