WTO director general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at the Public Forum, September 2024. ©WTO/Tomas Cesalek BAP Services

🪶 What Shakespeare thinks about the WTO. The World Trade Organizations’ annual open doors event had enthusiasm and “cerebral dazzle” but lacked ideas when it came to how to get negotiations moving again, writes John Clarke, former director of international relations at the European Commission, drawing on Shakespeare’s poetical musings.

⚽FIFA teams up with UN health agency for campaign to educate world soccer about concussion. The campaign with the World Health Organization aims to raise awareness and educate the soccer industry about the risks of concussion injuries.

🇺🇳Why I still love UNGA after all these years. “Don’t fall for the cynics: good stuff still happens at the UN,” says journalist Marc Leon Goldberg, giving some of his highlights to look out for at this year’s General Assembly currently underway.

😷Slow progress as schism continues between countries on pandemic agreement. As WHO member states dig their heels on some of the trickiest elements of a new pandemic agreement, here are some of the provisions being debated.

📅The problem with aid coordination meetings. “Excluded and unheard”. That’s how many participants attending humanitarian country meetings admitted feeling to the authors of a report by the International Council of Voluntary Agencies.