Here's what else is happening

Philippe Lazzarini, the commission-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (Unrwa), speaking at a briefing for journalists in Geneva, Switzerland, 16 November, 2023. (Geneva Solutions/Paula Dupraz-Dobias)

• 🆘 UN agency chiefs align efforts in appeal to avert chaos in Gaza. United Nations aid and humanitarian agency chiefs presented a common front this week in Geneva amid a rapidly deteriorating situation in the Middle East.
  Geneva Solutions (EN)
• 🤰🏽UN highlights harrowing conditions for pregnant women in Gaza. An average of 180 births a day can be expected amid the harrowing, life-threatening conditions created by the war between Israel and Hamas, according to the United Nations agency for women’s health.
  New York Times (EN)
• ⚕️WHO declares loneliness a ‘global public health concern’. The World Health Organization has launched an international commission on loneliness, which can be as bad for people’s health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
  The Guardian (EN)
• 💧An appeal to stop the weaponisation of water. Is water misery or dignity; life, or death? The incessant denial and destruction of water systems in Gaza obliges an answer. Let us use water to extinguish the flames, write members of the Geneva Water Hub.
  The Geneva Observer (EN)
• ⚛️ Emmanuel Macron pays a visit to Cern's accelerator. The French president ended his two-day visit to Switzerland with a meeting with Fabiola Gianotti, the director general of Cern (European Organization for Nuclear Research) and a visit to the LHC, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world.
  Radio Lac (FR)