Sonia Guajajara, Brazil’s Indigenous affairs minister in the Cop30 Blue Zone, 18 November 2025 (Geneva Solutions/Paula Dupraz-Dobias)

🌳Indigenous groups say big forest funds don’t cut it for them. The UN’s first Amazonian climate conference has put a spotlight on primary rainforests and the need to support their preservation. But Indigenous groups have their own proposals.

✂️WHO to shed over 2,000 jobs by mid-2026, document shows. The Geneva-based organisation, hit by the withdrawal of its biggest donor, the United States, projects it will lose 2,371 staff by June 2026 out of 9,401 in January 2025 due to cuts, retirements and departures.

🏁The ultimate guide for the upcoming UN secretary general race. As the United Nations gears up to select the next person to lead the organisation from 2027, here’s all you need to know about the rules and conventions underpinning the election process.

♀️840 million women have faced violence during their lifetime, WHO estimates. In the last 12 months alone, 11.4 per cent of women over the age of 15 who have ever been married or had a partner were subjected to physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner, according to the landmark report.

🇨🇭Christine Schraner Burgener: Refugee camps unfit for refugees. Christine Schraner Burgener, Switzerland’s state minister for migration, has set her sights on becoming only the second woman to lead the United Nations’ refugee agency. One of 13 candidates to have entered the race, she says she has “a good sense for realpolitik”.