# NuseReal

IOM: Pacific Climate Mobility Programme receives 2026 Human Security Award, recognizing their leadership in addressing climate mobility through rights-based and human-centred approaches (LINK) — 26 June 2026

IOM has called for greater investment in people, community participation and sustainable return pathways as essential pillars of Ukraine's recovery during the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC 2026) in Gdansk (LINK) — 26 June 2026

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U.S. Supreme Court deals a serious blow to the Make America Healthy Again movement by restricting Americans' ability to sue pesticide makers over alleged health harms stemming from their products. (LINK) — 25 June 2026

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PassBlue: Can the Pact for the Future restore UN confidence quickly? (LINK) — 25 June 2026

— Our comprehensive review found that more than half of assessed sub-action indicators showed some level of progress. From 452 indicators in 40 Pact "actions", we found substantive progress in 132, minimal progress on 120, no progress on 136 and regression on 64.

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World Economic Forum: China's 15th Five-Year Plan priorities span innovation, domestic consumption, industrial upgrading, green energy and continued opening to the global economy, speakers said at the World Economic Forum's 17th Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian (LINK) — 25 June 2026

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UN nuclear chief says Iran inspections will happen, Tehran says after deal (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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Trump cancels signing of bipartisan housing bill until his SAVE America Act is passed (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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Russian opposition leader jailed for 7 years over anti-war social media posts in 2022 (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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U.S.: Judge permanently blocks Trump EO requiring proof of citizenship to vote (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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China says it has a right to target people overseas who contravene it new ethnic unity law (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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Bill Gates gives Epstein testimony about blackmail fears: newly-published transcript of Gates' testimony to Congressional panel on June 10 (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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'If AI is to help build a better future, it must be honest about what it costs us now': UN Secretary-General António Guterres urges AI giants to reveal full extent of environmental damage (LINK) — 24 June 2026

— "By 2030, they could use ?more power than all but five countries — and enough water to meet the basic needs ?of all 1.3 billion residents of sub-Saharan Africa for an entire year," he said. His speech (via Reuters) also included the launch of the UN's AI Environmental Transparency Initiative, which offers AI companies the opportunity to publicly disclose water, the environmental impacts of their water usage, carbon emissions, and land use.

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New global rules clear the road for driverless vehicles (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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UN Working Group calls for action to ensure AI serves equality, not discrimination (LINK) — 24 June 2026

— The Working Group on discrimination against women and girls today warned that the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) and related digital technologies absent meaningful regulation may deepen existing gender inequalities and create new risks for the human rights of women and girls worldwide.

— "AI and digital technologies are reshaping the conditions under which women and girls exercise their rights," the Working Group said. "Without deliberate, gender-responsive governance, these systems risk amplifying exclusion, reinforcing harmful stereotypes, and exacerbating structural inequalities."

— The Working Group identified three urgent preconditions for achieving substantive gender equality in the digital age: closing the digital divide, harnessing AI and digital technologies to bolster rather than undermine women's and girls' human rights, and promoting their meaningful participation and leadership in public and political life. The experts also echoed calls for multilateral dialogue on AI redlines. They expressed alarm about some of the most extreme harms, including the gendered impact of AI in armed conflict and lethal autonomous weapons, climate change, mass surveillance and technology-facilitated gender-based violence. "These harms are not hypothetical, they are already being felt around the world," the Working Group said, stressing that intersecting forms of marginalisation are regularly mirrored and exacerbated by AI.

— They also underscored the potential of AI to advance gender equality, including by expanding access to education, healthcare, financial services, and justice — if developed responsibly and inclusively.

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UN Women: Five reasons why the care economy is one of the most transformative investments of our time (LINK) — 24 June 2026

• An estimated 350 million children require childcare services globally.
• If given a monetary value, unpaid care work would account for up to 40 per cent of GDP in some countries
• Investments in care sectors can create two to three times more jobs than investments in the construction sector.
• Women and girls spend 2.5 times more hours per day on unpaid care work than men.
• Globally, 45 per cent of working-age women (708 million women) are outside the labour market because of unpaid care responsibilities, compared with just 5 per cent of men.
• Women make up 80 per cent of paid domestic workers globally. Yet 90 per cent of domestic workers lack social protection and social security coverage.
• In crisis settings, women spend nearly four times more hours on unpaid care work than men.For example, in Ukraine, women spend 16 more hours per week on unpaid care work than men, resulting in an estimated USD 72.5 billion loss to the economy.
• Investments in care services could create nearly 300 million new decent jobs by 2035.
• Investing in care sectors has the potential to be 30 per cent less polluting than investing in the construction industry.
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— UN Women's Transform Care Initiative aims to strengthen care systems in over 50 countries. By 2035, the initiative has the potential to contribute to:

• Reaching 2.9 billion women and girls;
• Creating 260 million decent jobs for women;
• Freeing up 10 trillion hours of women's and girls' time by 2035.

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U.S. White House condemns 'targeted sabotage' of reflecting pool as repairs pushed past July 4 celebration (LINK) — 26 June 2026

— Court document says damage included sealant cut with a sharp knife and approximately 70 fence post tops thrown into water.

CNN: Trump's false and unproven claims about the Reflecting Pool (LINK) — 24 June 2026

— There has been no extended period since the pool was refilled in early June when it looked pristine. Algae was visible within days of the refilling, and it kept appearing even after the Trump administration declared that the water had been made "crystal clear".

— Trump said at a Monday event that after a two-year repair project under former President Barack Obama, the pool "never even opened"; he similarly said in a Monday post that the pool was "rarely open due to leaks and 'stench'" under Obama and former President Joe Biden. In reality, the pool reopened in August 2012 and has been open for the vast majority of the days since.

— Trump has also continued to exaggerate Obama's spending on the reflecting pool, saying at the Monday event that the two-year project cost "over $100 million". The contract was actually for about $35 million. The president has also repeatedly exaggerated the length of the reflecting pool: "almost-2,500-foot-long" and "taller than any building in the world, actually." It is 2,028 feet long, according to a page that was on the National Park Service website as of late May. The world's tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is more than 2,700 feet tall.

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U.K.: massive data centre cooks nearby residents alive amidst deadly heatwave: local residents liken the experience to something "pinching your body and burning your skin" (LINK) — 26 June 2026

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Mistrial declared in federal arson case related to California Palisades wildfires: accused detained until his retrial begins on October 19. (LINK) — 26 June 2026

— Out of 12 jurors, 10 believed that the suspect, Jonathan Rinderknecht, was innocent. A juror told The Associated Press that it seemed unfair to assign the accused man blame for the fires, given the negligence of other parties. Prosecutors allege that the accused used a barbecue lighter to light a fire on January 1, 2025. The government did not offer direct proof that the man lit the initial blaze, arguing that he had been in the area where it took place and portraying him as an aggrieved individual who sought to take out his anger on society through arson. Fire led to the deaths of 12 people and destroyed entire neighbourhoods along the coast north of Los Angeles.

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U.S.: prosecutors drop Harvey Weinstein rape charge after two juries deadlocked (LINK) — 25 June 2026

— In a statement, the D.A.'s office said that the accuser, Jessica Mann, did not wish to testify at a fourth trial.

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U.S.: FEMA official who says he teleported to Waffle House has been zapped out of job (LINK) — 25 June 2026

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King Charles III will not live at Buckingham Palace after completion of costly, decade-long refurbishment (LINK) — 25 June 2026

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Median annual salary in Switzerland for a full-time job rose to CHF87,000 in 2025, CHF5K more than in 2024 (LINK) — 25 June 2026

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Filmmakers and archaeologists say they have found the first shipwrecks linked to the pirates who once operated from Nassau in The Bahamas (LINK) — 25 June 2026

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Smarter waste sorting with AI from WasteFlow by EPFL students, Lausanne: "Our system can currently identify 66 different categories of waste, with accuracy rates reaching 98% for some plastics including PET, HDPE and LDPE," says co-founder Théophile Agresti. The company estimates that facilities using its technology could recycle around 6% more material, thus reducing the amount of waste that ends up being incinerated (LINK) — 25 June 2026

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Indigenous cultural practices are a climate solution, Conservation International report finds (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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Swiss study finds fewer job ads for career starters as AI reshapes entry-level work (LINK) — 24 June 2026

— An analysis of 7.3 million job advertisements shows entry-level postings down sharply since the years before generative AI, with the steepest declines in roles the tools can most readily take on. The number of Swiss job advertisements aimed at career starters in 2025 was just under a third lower than the average for the period before generative AI arrived, according to a study published on Wednesday by the recruitment portal Jobs.ch.

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AI loses out to human wealth managers when the money actually moves, HSBC finds: survey of nearly 10,000 wealthy investors finds AI doing the research and a human adviser making the final call (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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After 'circling the drain' Trump's DJT stock finally plops in (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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Anthropic sends Congress letter accusing China's Alibaba of illicitly accessing AI models (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks, separated for 400 years, reunited and put online (LINK) — 24 June 2026

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The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers: human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry (LINK) — 23 June 2026

Catchup: AI solution to an 80-year-old problem: the first major mathematical open problem solved with AI with minimal human intervention beyond the initial prompt (LINK) — 26 May 2026

Global Dialogue on AI Governance: PalExpo 6-7 July 2026: convened by the United Nations General Assembly (LINK)

AI for Good Global Summit 2026 and the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance: 7 to 10 July at Geneva's Palexpo convention centre (LINK)

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25 to 27 October 2026: UNCTAD World Investment Forum 9: in Doha (LINK) — 22 January 2026

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Road to the First International Conference of the Global Framework on Chemicals being held in Geneva on 16 to 20 November 2026 (LINK) — 11 February 2026

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11 to 15 July 2027: International AIDS Society announces Geneva as host city for IAS 2027:: Around 5,000 people from more than 130 countries are expected to attend. Registration for IAS 2027 will open in November 2026 (LINK) — 22 January 2026

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