WTO: Broad support for Bangladesh, Colombia, India on TRIPS NVSC issue (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Yerevan)
Several countries on 24 April appeared to throw their support behind Bangladesh, Colombia, and India regarding a key agenda item at a TRIPS Council meeting on "Reflections on MC14 and the Issue of Non-Violation and Situation Complaints [NVSCs]" - specifically, the argument that NVSCs are not applicable under the TRIPS Agreement, according to participants familiar with the development.

UN: Global hunger crisis deepens, concentrated in just ten hard-hit nations (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
Acute food insecurity and malnutrition levels remain deeply entrenched and increasingly concentrated, with just ten countries accounting for two-thirds of all people facing high levels of acute hunger, according to a United Nations report.

UN: Food & nutrition aid plunges by 59% even as global hunger surges (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
Humanitarian funding for food, agriculture, and nutrition assistance fell sharply in 2025, plunging by an estimated 59 percent compared to 2022, even as global acute food insecurity remained persistently high, according to a United Nations report.