WTO : US seeks to terminate litigation of disputes involving security exceptions (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, New Delhi)
The United States on 11 December said that "litigating matters of essential security at the WTO undermines the foundations of the WTO by dragging the Organization into debating inherently political matters."

WHO : Pandemic Agreement - INB Bureau pushes developing countries to agree (PRIV)
(Nithin Ramakrishnan and Sangeeta Shashikant, Geneva)
On the final day of the resumed 12th session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB), the INB Bureau manoeuvred the process to pressure WHO Member States - particularly developing countries - into dropping their objections to the financing provisions of the Pandemic Agreement.

UN : Urgent need for torture prevention mechanism in the DRC (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
The United Nations Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture has called for urgent action to establish a torture prevention mechanism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).