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📋UN expert says world has given Israel ‘licence to torture Palestinians’. Francesca Albanese, the UN’s expert on the occupied Palestinian territories, said “torture has effectively become state policy” in Israel and called its prison system “a laboratory of calculated cruelty”, in her latest report to the Human Rights Council. Israel rejected the report.
Al Jazeera (EN)
🦠Pandemic treaty faces last test as equity fight stalls final annex. As the supposed last round of talks to finalise the pandemic treaty annex on pathogen access and benefit-sharing got underway in Geneva, the head of the World Health Organization urged negotiators to make good on the “only chance” remaining to seal the deal.
Arete News (EN)
🫁WHO rolls out new tuberculosis diagnostic tools as undetected crisis plagues Europe. Surveillance data gathered by the health body shows that widespread undetected tuberculosis is leaving one in five patients across the European region without crucial care.
Health Policy Watch (EN)
✈️ International Geneva crisis and war in the Middle East weigh on airport results. Presenting its annual results yesterday, Geneva airport’s director Jean-François de Saussure said that while the number of international conferences remained the same, travel by international officials decreased by 13 per cent last year.
Tribune de Genève (FR)

Hi there, this is Michelle. The Human Rights Council is bracing for duelling emergency meetings on Iran’s Gulf strikes and US school bombing – a politically charged framing that doesn’t serve accountability, according to NGOs.