Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), delivers his statement, during the opening of the 77th World Health Assembly (WHA77) at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 27, 2024
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Meanwhile, Poland strips Zelensky of its highest honour over naming of military unit after WWII far-right paramilitaries
THE World Health Organisation’s (WHO) annual assembly kicked off on Monday with hopes of improving global readiness for deadly outbreaks like Covid-19, after an ambitious “pandemic treaty” stalled last week.
Health officials are racing to get the world to agree to new ways to prepare for and fight an inevitable future pandemic.
Covid-19 is fading into memory as elections and crises like climate change and war compete for the public’s attention.
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Cypriot lawyer and former central committee member of the Progressive Working People’s Party (Akel) TOUMAZOS TSIELEPIS discusses the case for expelling the British military from Cyprus
IAN SINCLAIR recommends an important and timely book for climate politics right now and in the future
The UN is not only in need of structural change, a fundamental mindset revolution is also required – and it’s China that points the way with its Global Governance Initiative, argues ROGER McKENZIE