WTO: DG backs contentious reform agenda, sidesteps dispute settlement (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation has defended the three controversial reform issues - amending the consensus-based decision-making process, revising special and differential treatment for developing countries based on a self-designation framework, and introducing level- playing field issues - while remaining conspicuously silent on the core reform issue of restoring the two-tier dispute settlement system, as well as addressing the unresolved mandated issues.

PABS: South seeks stronger text on contracts, data governance, benefit sharing (PRIV)
(Rajnia di Vito, Geneva)
Developing countries called for strengthening the Bureau's negotiating text on the PABS Annex, particularly with regard to contracts, data governance, and benefit-sharing, on the first day of the Fifth Meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG 5).

UN: Fatal shootings in Minneapolis may amount to extrajudicial killing (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
United Nations human rights experts on 11 February warned that the lethal force used by United States immigration enforcement officers in Minneapolis may constitute an arbitrary deprivation of life and potentially an extrajudicial killing.