The World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, 27 August, 2014. (Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

💊Exclusive: Pharma industry seeks ‘expert’ role pandemic treaty annex talks. Pharmaceutical companies want their industry to wade in as a designated expert in the negotiations on pathogen access and benefit sharing, seeking to reverse a decision to exclude them over conflicts of interest.

🗣️Opinion: China and the US are dining and dashing at the UN: it’s time to stop them. The two powerful nations have quietly been reaping the benefits of their status at the United Nations while holding back their dues, writes Phil Lynch, executive director of Geneva-based NGO, the International Service for Human Rights.

🇬🇧Countries ask if Britain’s US trade deal is WTO compliant, document shows. At its first trade policy review since leaving the European Union, the UK was questioned over whether its deal struck in May met the trade body’s Most Favoured Nations terms, which require members to treat each other equally.

🛠️UN80 reform initiative ‘too little, too late’. Michael Møller, former director general of the UN Office at Geneva, laments the dismantling of the international ecosystem built over the last 80 years and the repercussions on lives across the planet.

⚖️Exclusive: Navi Pillay on Israel's Gaza genocide and global complicity. As the UN’s top investigator of abuses in the Occupied Palestinian Territories prepares to step down, she reflects on her findings that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and the mounting pressure on the international law architecture.