US rights ambassador Michèle Taylor speaks to journalists following a Human Rights Council session in Geneva in 2023. (US diplomatic mission)

🇺🇸Trump should be active on UN rights body to counter China, US envoy says. Michèle Taylor, Washington's ambassador to the Human Rights Council under Joe Biden, urged the president-elect's team to stay engaged with the Geneva-based body, partly to counter what she described as China's “dangerous” influence.

💼 Labour organisation: International migrants play crucial role in global economy. Accounting for 4.7 per cent of the world’s economic workforce, they generally bring a net economic benefit to the countries they arrive in and the ones they leave behind through remittances.

💥‘It’s like Israel is shooting directly at us’: Doctors Without Borders members trapped in Gaza. The humanitarian group said 12 staff and their families were stranded in their offices amid intense shelling in the Al-Mawasi area.

🦋Scientists from 57 countries want to end siloed decision-making on climate and biodiversity. A UN panel released a report arguing it is more cost effective to tackle two or more environmental issues at once, including climate change, biodiversity, food, human health and water.

🇮🇱UN torture expert visits Israeli scenes of Oct 7 Hamas attack. Alice Jill Edwards, the UN-backed special rapporteur on torture, visited for the first time Israeli kibbutz communities attacked last year by Hamas.