Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
President Cyril Ramaphosa South Africa-Mozambique Bi-National Commission Welcome Ceremony in Maputo.
UK Watch live: Lords debates Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Bill
Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
The key purpose and principles of the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Bill is up for debate today, Tuesday 2 December.
Find out more, including who’s taking part: https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2025/nov-2025/biodiversity-beyond-national-jurisdiction-bill-second-reading/
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POV: A ✨snapshot✨ of a day as a trainee in our banking supervision teams 📸
Source: European Central Bank (video statements)
We’re recruiting more than 💯 trainees – there’s less than two weeks left to apply!
Apply by 15 December ➡️ link.europa.eu/3DXdBH
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📷 by ECB
UK Is working from home working?
Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
The House of Lords Home-based Working Committee says home working could support the government’s plans to get people back into work.
In its new report published today, the committee calls on the government to support effective remote and hybrid working, alongside existing back to work initiatives.
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UK Education Committee questions the Secretary of State for Education – Education Committee
Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)
The Education Committee questions the Secretary of State for Education, Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson MP. Topics include:
– How the Government will fund special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
– The threat of insolvency facing universities
– Ofsted’s new report cards for schools
– Efforts to recruit and retain school teachers
World AIDS Day report 2025 -Transforming the AIDS response | Press Conference | United Nations
Source: United Nations (video statements)
Press Conference by Cesar Nunez, Director of the UNAIDS New York Office, on the launch of the World AIDS Day report, Overcoming Disruption: Transforming the AIDS response.
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“The HIV epidemic is not over, and our previous progress is at risk,” warned César Antonio Núñez, Director of the UNAIDS New York Office, as the UN marked World AIDS Day with an assessment of shrinking global resources.
Briefing reporters at UN headquarters, Núñez said the findings of UNAIDS’ new Global Report: Overcoming disruption, transforming the response, point to mounting threats driven by a sharp decline in international funding. The report, launched last week in Geneva, underscores “the importance of overcoming the current disruption in the financing of the AIDS response.”
He highlighted severe pressures on countries already struggling to maintain services. “OECD projects that external health aid will drop by 30 to 40 per cent in 2025 compared to 2023,” he said, adding that the cuts are “causing immediate and severe disruption to health services in low- and middle-income countries.”
Núñez said the downturn is hitting prevention and community programs first. “The resources, the response and prevention, has kind of flatlined,” he said. Treatment uptake, once rising steadily, “has also been reduced,” with consequences for “prevention programs for young people and key populations.”
These setbacks carry long-term risks, he cautioned. Without urgent corrective action, “that will take us back, 3.9 million people newly acquiring HIV by 2030, in excess of what we would have hoped to be the end of AIDS as a public health threat.”
While some governments have rushed to close gaps, Núñez said the efforts could be insufficient. “Will the funding sources that still remain and the countries filling in the gaps be enough? Not necessarily,” he said.
Countries will have to make sharper strategic choices. “Prioritization will be essential,” Núñez said.
He added, “Evidently, we point to prevention because we need to reduce the number of new infections in order to address…the growing epidemic.”
UK Lords urgent question on industrial action in the NHS
Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
Coming up this afternoon, members will quiz the government on the effects of upcoming industrial action in the NHS in an urgent question from Lord Kamall, granted by the Lord Speaker. Watch from 3.15pm.
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Making sense of geopolitics in 2025
Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
As geopolitics shifts, three experts on international relations answer fundamental questions, including: Why do humans have wars? What are the new challenges facing peacemakers and peacekeepers? And what has changed for the Global South?
Guests:
Monica Toft, Professor and Director, Center for Strategic Studies; Academic Dean, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Happymon Jacob, Founder and Director, Council for Strategic and Defense Research (CSDR)
Aparna Bharadwaj Managing Director and Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
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Global Future Council on Geopolitics: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council-on-geopolitics
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After 2025’s ‘seismic’ shock, what’s next for development and aid: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/development-aid-devex/
Superpower rivalry and geopolitics in Trump 2.0: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/geopolitics-lynn-kuok-the-national/
We have entered the age of "persistent disruption" – Visa’s Wayne Best on the Chief Economists Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-visa-wayne-best/
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UK Treasury Committee questions the Office for Budget Responsibility – Treasury Committee
Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)
Treasury will hold the first session of its inquiry into the 2025 Budget. Officials from the Office for Budget Responsibility will answer questions on their economic and fiscal forecasts, as well as the premature upload of Budget documents to their website.
South Africa: Minister Buthelezi briefs media on Public Service Integrity and Anti-Corruption measures
Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
The Minister for the Public Service and Administration, Inkosi Mzamo Buthelezi, accompanied by the Deputy Minister for the Public Service and Administration, Ms Pinky Kekana, host a media briefing to outline key reforms aimed at strengthening integrity, accountability, and ethical governance across the public service.