Here's what else is happening

• 🪑UN plastics treaty chair to step down with process in turmoil. The Ecuadorian diplomat Luis Vayas Valdivieso cited personal and professional reasons, denying his decision was motivated by reported pressures from the UN Environment Programme’s secretariat.
  The Guardian (EN)
• 🕊️Trump administration to unlock hundreds of millions for UN peacekeeping. After withholding $400 million in peacekeeping dues, the US wants to bankroll select missions – including in Congo and Haiti – as it moves to fund only what it deems worthwhile.
  Devex (EN)
• ➥‘Return, or prison’: Inside IOM and Greece’s failing migrant return scheme. The International Organization for Migration has been accused of resorting to questionable tactics to get asylum seekers to enrol in its voluntary return and reintegration programme in an effort to meet ambitious targets.
  The New Humanitarian (EN)
• 🏗️Geneva staff furious over increase of Palais des Nations renovation costs. After eight years of renovation works, the project is behind schedule and is set to cost nearly CHF90 million more than expected. The news has not gone down well with staff, at a time when UN finances are already under strain.
  RTS (FR)
• 🗳️Unesco nominates Egyptian as its new director following US withdrawal. If confirmed by the UN science and culture agency’s general assembly next month, Egypt’s former tourism and antiquities minister, Khaled el-Anani, would become its first head from the Arab world.
  Associated Press (EN)
• 🇾🇪Yemen’s Houthi rebels detain nine more UN staff as part of a crackdown. The latest crackdown brings the number of detained UN workers to 53 since 2021, the UN’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement on Monday.
  Associated Press (EN)