ILO headquarters in Geneva, March 16 2022. (Keystone/Martial Trezzini)

✂️UN labour agency to cut 73 jobs as US withholds funding. The International Labour Organization has approved further job cuts expected to save $22 million amid a deepening liquidity crisis.

🤖UN rights chief pushes AI ‘red lines’ as nations vie to shape global rules. Volker Türk called on Monday for independent verification of AI safety as states push to debate AI’s human rights implications at the UN Human Rights Council.

⛔Deadlock over UN succession could leave a vacuum. Confidential documents seen by the Saudi-owned magazine show that Washington is against extending António Guterres’ tenure if no candidate secures the necessary support to succeed him as secretary general by 31 December.

🕹️States reach agreement at autonomous weapons talks in Geneva. The 128 states party to the UN’s Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons agreed on a document on Saturday, after negotiations stretched late into the night amid opposition from Russia, the United States and others. Though not legally binding, the text is a major step towards creating international rules, after more than a decade of talks on so-called “killer robots".

,🚜Israeli rubble-clearing in Gaza could erase 'atrocity crimes' evidence: UN expert. Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, stressed in a statement that “Gaza’s rubble contains human remains and physical evidence relevant to the investigation of alleged international crimes, including genocide”.

🔥Wildfires, heat waves threaten to undermine air quality, UN weather agency says. In a new report, the World Meteorological Organization said yesterday that climate change and health are inextricably linked, pointing to particulate ​matter from wildfires carrying a mix of toxic chemicals that can trigger body‑wide inflammation and contribute to pulmonary and cardiovascular disease.