Here's what else is happening

• 🚨UN rights council to hold emergency session on Iran, document shows. On Tuesday, Iceland, Germany, the UK, Moldova and North Macedonia formally requested the Geneva-based body to organise a special session to address Iran’s crackdown on protesters as the death toll rises to 5,000. The meeting has been scheduled for Friday afternoon.
  Reuters (EN)
• 🤧UN chief cancels planned trip to Davos summit. António Guterres was due to speak today at gathering, but will have to skip it due to a "bad cold", according to his spokesperson.
  Anadolu Agency (EN)
• 💰UN pension review raises concerns among staff and retirees. The General Assembly adopted a resolution in December, inviting the UN Pension Board to review its retirement scheme, including changing its contribution model and exploring ways to “lower contributions”.
  PassBlue (EN)
• 🦾 Inside Geneva: Can a science and diplomacy partnership save the world? Podcast host Imogen Foulkes looks at a group in Geneva pushing for science and politics to come together to address the unavoidable challenges posed by the tech frenzy.
  Swissinfo (EN)
• 📦UN development programme to move 400 New York-based staff to Europe. The US-headquartered agency said about ‍300 positions would be transferred to Bonn, Germany, and roughly 100 to Madrid, Spain, over the next two years. The announcement follows years of steep aid cuts from the US and other Western donors.
  Reuters via Alarabiya (EN)
• ,🚜Israel bulldozes UN agency for Palestinian refugees. Operations to demolish UNRWA's compound in East Jerusalem began in the early hours of Tuesday, with its head, Phillipe Lazzarini, calling it “a new level of open and deliberate defiance of international law”.
  Financial Times (EN)