Call to strengthen global rules to protect gig workers
14/11/2025: Human Rights Watch has called on governments negotiating a new global treaty on gig work to strengthen the draft text to protect workers from exploitative management. Too many digital platform workers are being denied their human rights, including pay below the minimum wage and the use of unaccountable algorithms to evade employer responsibilities.
Source: Human Rights Watch
Seven charts showing how the $100bn climate-finance goal was met
14/11/2025: A group of nations, including much of Europe, the US and Japan, is obliged under the 2015 Paris Agreement to provide international “climate finance” to developing countries, with a target of $100bn a year by 2020. The target was finally met in 2022 although analysis shows that donors have relied substantially on loans and private finance to meet their obligations.
Source: Carbon Brief
Global gains in tuberculosis response endangered by funding challenges
12/11/2025: Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers, claiming over 1.2 million lives and affecting an estimated 10.7 million people in 2024, despite being preventable and curable. Cuts to international donor funding could result in up to 2 million additional deaths and 10 million people falling ill with TB between 2025 and 2035.
Source: World Health Organization
Without truth, there can be no climate justice
12/11/2025: The Union of Concerned Scientists has warned that widespread dissemination of climate disinformation impacts public health, undermines democracy, and weakens the effectiveness of climate policies. Scientists have called out major platforms, including Meta, X, and TikTok, for actively spreading misinformation, disinformation, or false information.
Source: Inter Press Service
Novartis’ new malaria treatment shows promise against resistant parasites
12/11/2025: GanLum, a new malaria treatment developed by Novartis, has shown promise in blocking transmission. Experts have expressed excitement over the results, as there have been concerns about the lack of new drug treatments to overcome parasite resistance to artemisinin, introduced more than two decades ago.
Source: Devex
India’s toxic air demands action
12/11/2025: According to a Lancet Countdown report, more than 1.7 million people in India died from outdoor PM2.5 air pollution in 2022, more than double the figure for 2020. Such losses undermine development goals and deepen inequalities, as poorer communities suffer the worst exposure while having the least means to adapt.
Source: Devex
Oxfam delivers million-signature ‘Make Rich Polluters Pay’ petition to COP30
12/11/2025: Oxfam and its activist partners at COP30 have delivered a petition demanding that the super-rich pay for climate damages. The petition is part of a global civil society campaign, which calls on governments to tax those who hold outsized responsibility for driving carbon emissions.
Source: Oxfam International
Smart policies, not more dependence, will boost Africa’s health financing
11/11/2025: Abrupt cuts in foreign aid have exposed vulnerable health systems across Africa. But these seismic shifts are also a unique opportunity. There are multiple levers that governments can pull to secure the sustained financing that is needed for health care.
Source: Devex
Millions of lives at risk of famine, warn UN food agencies
11/11/2025: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme have issued a warning of a major hunger emergency, with acute food insecurity set to worsen in 16 countries and territories. Conflict and violence are the leading cause in 14 of the 16 hotspots.
Source: UN Food and Agriculture Organization
Why Congolese see little hope in M23 peace talks
10/11/2025: Little progress has been reported since the June signing of a US-brokered peace deal between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, and a separate July ceasefire agreed in Doha between Kinshasa and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels. Congolese civil society remain sceptical of deals they view as externally imposed and part of a long-term pattern of exploitation.
Source: The New Humanitarian