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• 👮🏻‍♂️UN security officers stage sick-out to protest planned benefit cuts. Several security posts were empty in New York headquarters on Monday as officers claimed sick leave in protest of proposals to modify working conditions, like cutting break time by half and ending overtime pay provisions.
  PassBlue (EN)
• 🧫WHO member states get skeleton draft on pathogen sharing ahead of text-based negotiations. Next week, countries will meet again to tackle the final sticking point in the pandemic treaty — a system designed to ensure companies share the benefits they gain from using pathogen data collected by governments elsewhere.
  Health Policy Watch (EN)
• 🌀Red Cross warns 1.5 million at risk as strongest-ever hurricane hits Jamaica. As the Caribbean island braces for Hurricane Melissa, UN agencies and Red Cross responders launched plans to assist island communities preparing to face the worst hurricane of the century, bringing risks of destructive winds, flash floods, landslides and surge storms.
  Anadolu Agency (EN)
• 💥Russian drone attacks on civilians in Ukraine are war crimes, UN report concludes. The Human Rights Council-backed commission of inquiry on Ukraine found the strikes were intentionally targeting civilians and their homes, gathering points, humanitarian distribution points, and as well as critical infrastructure.
  The Guardian (EN)
• 📋UN: Global climate plans falling short of the goal. Less than a third of countries have updated their domestic commitments to reduce emissions, putting the world on track to cut 10 per cent of emissions by 2035 – a sixth of what’s needed to avoid breaching the 1.5°C limit.
  Politico (EN)
• 🎧Inside Geneva: taking the pulse of the UN at 80. Analysts and figures from Geneva's humanitarian world weigh in on the multilateral system’s crisis and why all hope is not lost.
  Swissinfo (EN)