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• WHO aims for Ebola serum in weeks and vaccine tests in Africa by January

  22 Oct 2014: Details given of two vaccines being fast-tracked for trial on 20,000 health workers and antibody serum planned for Liberia

• Cambodia to give Nauru refugees 'realistic' picture of resettlement

  21 Oct 2014: Phnom Penh media is reporting officials will travel to Australia and Nauru as soon as this week to present options to refugees

• UN climate debt swap is 'fundamentally unjust', say development agencies

  Guardian Professional, 21 Oct 2014: A proposal offering small island states debt relief to pay for climate change adaptation merges legitimate and illegitimate debt, writes Karl Mathiesen

• South Sudan sexual violence ‘rampant’, says UN envoy

  21 Oct 2014: UN representative accuses both sides of targeted rapes on basis of ethnicity, after two-year-old attacked

• ‘She’ for ‘He’ in children's books

  21 Oct 2014: Emma Watson is a strong female character in fiction as Hermione and in the real world – author Cate Sampson calls for more portrayals in children’s and teen books that reflect how women really are

• 'Build bridges for Lima climate talks'

  20 Oct 2014: UN climate chief Christiana Figueres urges delegates to work towards achieving a historic pact in Paris in 2015

• Getting a nutrition goal is great, but we need a more ambitious target

  Guardian Professional, 20 Oct 2014: Nutrition was neglected in the millennium development goals, so we need tougher targets to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030 writes Glen Tarman
  

• Oxfam calls for troops in Africa as criticism of ‘inadequate’ Ebola response mounts

  18 Oct 2014: Charity says there are two months to curb outbreak as World Health Organisation is accused of missing chance to halt its spread

• Ebola risk: 'we must not kid ourselves', says John Kerry - video

  Video (1min 09sec), 18 Oct 2014:

  The US secretary of state warns the Ebola outbreak could become a 'scourge like HIV or polio' if the international community does not intensify its response

• Reflecting on 'collective failure': is the United Nations still relevant?

  Guardian Professional, 17 Oct 2014: In 2014, is a multilateral body formed in 1946 still fit for purpose? Join the live Q&A 23 October, 1-3pm BST to discuss

• UN gets tough on Ebola shirkers

  17 Oct 2014: Ban Ki-moon blasts some of the world’s biggest players for failing to pull their weight in fight against potentially global threat

• Venezuela elected to UN security council

  16 Oct 2014: Angola, Malaysia and New Zealand also successful, and Turkey and Spain face new round of voting for last available seat

• More Ebola funds called for as disease’s spread rapidly outpaces aid

  15 Oct 2014: Funds, personnel and equipment arriving too late or not at all as WHO warns of hefty shortfall in global aid response to Ebola

• Mass internet surveillance threatens international law, UN report claims

  15 Oct 2014: Actions of intelligence agencies are ‘corrosive of online privacy’, Ben Emmerson says in report responding to Edward Snowden leaks

• UN agency cuts Afghanistan food rations as donations dry up

  14 Oct 2014: World Food Programme says cuts will affect up to one million of the 3.7 million Afghans it helps to feed

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