Dr Mike Ryan, WHO deputy director general and emergencies director who helped steer the organisation through the Covid pandemic, is among those leaving the leadership team. (Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

👔World Health Organization announces leadership shake-up. The global health body has dramatically reduced the number of leaders, with some well-known figures, including Mike Ryan, the deputy director general and emergencies director, among those stepping down.

🪖German foreign minister warns countries can't fill gap if US pulls UN peacekeeping funding. Countries are gathered in Berlin for a high-level forum to discuss the future of blue helmet missions, which the US has suggested entirely defunding. Meanwhile, China has promised to present new peacekeeping commitments.

☢️Toxic masculinity and the rollback of women’s rights. Thirty years have passed since UN member states gathered in Beijing and backed a resolution promoting a set of principles concerning the equality of men and women. But progress made since is now under threat.

💰Opinion: Can the UN’s migration and refugee agencies become one? The long-floated idea of a merger between International Organization for Migration and the UN refugee agency has become a more real possibility as the UN looks for ways to dramatically reduce its costs.

🏃🚪UNDP's Achim Steiner on the 'chronic erosion' of development. As the head of the UN’s development agency prepares to step down, he looks back on his eight years at the helm and reflects on the impact on US cuts on the organisation’s work.