New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the United Nations Ambassador, testifies during a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing for her pending confirmation on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, 21 January, 2025, in Washington. (Keystone/AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

🇺🇳Trump’s UN nominee pinpoints agencies to support — and to walk away from. Speaking during her Senate confirmation hearing, Elise Stefanik said the World Food Programme and Unicef merit US support because they are the kinds of United Nations agencies that advance the country's national security interests, unlike the Palestinian refugee agency and the World Health Organization.

⚖️Trump may face lawsuit over US withdrawal from WHO. Lawrence Gostin, a law professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC who also leads the WHO Center on Global Health Law, said that he was considering filing a lawsuit over Donald Trump's decision, arguing that it required approval from Congress.

🧳IOM chief talks about the realities of migration and deportation. Amy Pope, head of the International Organization for Migration, said mass deportations on the scale that Donald Trump has pledged are not doable or productive. Setting up a legal, orderly system is key to curbing irregular migration, she told Devex at Davos.

🇹🇭Questions grow over UNHCR inaction as Uyghurs in Thailand face deportation threat. As Thailand faces calls from rights groups and UN experts not to deport a group of Uyghur asylum seekers to China, further questions have surfaced about the approach of the UN’s refugee agency, including why it withdrew asylum seeker status from two of the men.

🕊️What makes a good peace deal? After the ceasefire began in Gaza on Sunday, this week’s Inside Geneva podcast examines what makes a good, sustainable peace agreement. How easy or challenging is it to craft a really solid peace treaty? Laurent Goetschel of Swiss Peace and Katia Papagianni of the Geneva Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue share their views.