Countries must act fast to save the Sustainable Development Goals
25/6/2025: The 4th International Conference for Financing for Development will take place from 30 June to 3 July in Seville, Spain. It provides a unique opportunity to address financing challenges to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Years of underinvestment by all states mean the majority of the SDGs are way off track from their 2030 target.
Source: Amnesty International
Price of first malaria vaccine to be slashed by more than half
25/6/2025: The price charged by drugmakers Bharat Biotech and GSK for the world’s first malaria vaccine, RTS,S, will be reduced to less than $5 per dose in endemic countries by 2028. In low income countries supported by GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, prices will be cut even further.
Source: Devex
FEWS NET is back online
25/6/2025: The Famine Early Warning Systems Network is officially back, having been halted as the Trump administration slashed nearly all US foreign aid. Widely regarded as the world’s most reliable early warning system for food insecurity, FEWS NET is expected to shift fully to the US State Department in the coming weeks.
Source: Devex
Oxfam warns global development is “abysmally off track”
25/6/2025: A new Oxfam report contrasts the growing wealth of the world's richest 1% with the largest cuts to foreign aid since records began. Oxfam calls on governments to band together in new coalitions to oppose extreme inequality
Source: Oxfam International
Decades of progress on poverty at risk, warns UN poverty expert
25/6/2025: The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights has warned that unprecedented cuts to global aid and intensifying attacks on multilateralism are undermining decades of progress. Official development assistance fell in 2024 for the first time in six years, with predictions estimating a drop of almost 20% for 2025.
Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
UN Refugee Agency estimates 2.5 million people need resettlement
24/6/2025: For 2026, the international community has set itself a goal to resettle 120,000 refugees, a small fraction of the 2.5 million refugees worldwide that need to be resettled. The largest groups are Afghans and Syrians.
Source: UN Refugee Agency
Eritrea bids to end scrutiny of Human Rights Council
24/6/2025: The government of Eritrea is trying to end the mandate of the UN special rapporteur on the country's human rights record. At the same time, Eritrea has proved unwilling to improve its dismal rights record and blocked the special rapporteur’s access to the country.
Source: Human Rights Watch
Why Spain is holding firm on aid spending
24/6/2025: At a time when much of Europe is caving in to populist anti-aid narratives, Spain is increasing its financial support for the global south and put ambitious goals for 2030 into law. By promoting multilateralism and international cooperation Spain has become an outlier in the new world disorder.
Source: The Guardian
US again blocks appointments to resolve global trade disputes
24/6/2025: For the 88th time, the US has blocked a proposal for expeditiously filling all seven vacancies in the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization. As the system for settling trade disputes remains broken, multilateral rules and the rule of law appear to be the major casualty.
Source: Third World Network
Campaigners call for reforms to rescue UN climate process
23/6/2025: More than 200 climate campaign groups have issued a joint call for UN climate decisions to be adopted by majority voting rather than requiring consensus. At COP29 last year, developed countries watered down ambition on a new climate finance goal.
Source: Climate Home News