UN laments US withdrawal from educational and cultural agency

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UN laments US withdrawal from educational and cultural agency

The United States is once again set to leave the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a move that has drawn strong expressions of regret from senior UN officials and revived a long-running dispute between Washington and the Paris-based cultural body. UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said she “deeply regrets” the decision by President […]

WHO chief laments most disruptive cuts to global health funding ‘in living memory’

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WHO chief laments most disruptive cuts to global health funding ‘in living memory’

“We are living through the greatest disruption to global health financing in memory,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He cautioned that abrupt withdrawals of funding are jeopardising hard-won medical progress, including efforts to combat tropical diseases, which are now re-emerging in some regions. “This is just the tip of the iceberg,” he told […]