Here's what else is happening

• 🧾UN presses for clarity on nearly $4 billion owed by US as financial crisis looms. The world body said on Monday it’s still waiting to hear how much of the amount owed it can expect to receive and when, following this weekend’s remarks from the US ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz.
  France 24 (EN)
• 👩🏻‍💻Services boom fails to deliver better jobs in poorest countries: UN report. While services are a major source of growth and employment in least developed countries, they have yet to yield higher incomes and greater productivity, with new jobs remaininginformal and coming with low wages, the Geneva-based UN trade and development agency warns.
  Down to Earth (EN)
• 🚸‘That’s when I stopped feeling human’: I’ve seen what Australia’s practices are doing to incarcerated children. Australia’s former youth representative to the UN, Satara Uthayakumaran, writes about how children as young as 10 are jailed in her country and subjected to controversial practices like spit hoods, an issue that has drawn condemnation at a UN human rights review in Geneva.
  ABC (EN)
• 💥Fatal drone strikes on civilians persist in Sudan's Kordofan, UN says. Civilians are still being killed in the region, where the army said it has broken months-long sieges by the RSF, but strikes from both sides continue, the UN rights chief Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council on Monday.
  Reuters (EN)
• 🌱‘Coca leaf is life itself’: Andean growers’ hopes fade as WHO upholds global ban. The sacred Indigenous remedy, used to relieve tiredness, headaches and altitude sickness, remains under strict international controls akin to heroin or fentanyl after a decision taken by the health agency in December.
  The Guardian (EN)