Makeshift shelters and tents of internally displaced Palestinians, who fled from the northern Gaza Strip and Rafah city, along the beach of Deir Al Balah, central Gaza, 6 September 2024. (Keystone/EPA/Mohammed Saber)

✂️Joseph Deiss deplors Swiss cuts to UNRWA. The former Swiss federal councillor criticises the National Council's vote abolishing aid to the UN agency for palestinian refugees, arguing it goes against Switzerland's interests and the defence of international law.

🎧The WTO, global trade, and why we need ‘re-globalisation’. What does the World Trade Organization do nowadays and is it still even relevant? The podcast explores the future of the trade body amid rising protectionism and a backdrop of waning enthusiasm for multilateralism.

📋Countries sink teeth into the form of a pandemic agreement. After a few weeks’ break, WHO member states are gathering once again to try and finalise a pandemic agreement at the 11th meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body. Here’s what has happened so far.

👩🏽States criticise Taliban’s new morality law. Members of the Human Rights Council on Tuesday denounced the denial of the human and fundamental rights of Afghan women by the Taliban, amounting to more than 70 decisions and declarations since the regime took power three years ago.

🙏Religious groups ‘spending billions to counter gender-equality education’. A report by the UK-based Overseas Development Institute finds that extreme religious groups and political parties are targeting schools around the world as part of a coordinated and well-funded attack on gender equality.