 Hello and welcome to today's episode of the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the top stories from around the world. Let's take a look at today's headlines. World Health Assembly to form Global Pandemic Treaty, El Salvador Responsible for Death of Women, Jailed for Miscarriage, European Union Funding, Migrant Detentions in Libya, and Israel and Morocco signed $22 million arms deal. In our first story, the World Health Assembly has agreed to form a global treaty to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. The World Health Organization's governing body held a special session between November 29 and December 1. An intergovernmental negotiating body will be set up which must meet by March 2022. Negotiators will be required to present the outcome of the discussions by May 2024. The global treaty would include issues like sharing data, virus samples and any medicines or vaccines derived from research. The WHO has already signed a landmark global licensing agreement for technology used to test COVID-19 antibodies. The Spanish National Research Council's serological test will be provided royalty-free to poor countries to expand manufacturing. However, the WHO's pandemic treaty will have a much broader mandate and countries like the U.S. have already refused any legally binding commitments. Global North countries continue to pursue an individualized and discriminatory pandemic response. In the case of the Omicron variant, Botswana and South Africa were simply the first countries to report the variant. However, this was wrongfully translated to the variant having originated there. Global North countries then proceeded to impose a racist blanket travel ban on most southern African countries. This is taking place alongside the global vaccine apartheid under which the U.S. and Europe have vaccinated 58% of their population. Meanwhile, the figure of the entire African continent is 7.3%. Incidentally, South Africa has been one of the countries leading the push for a trips waiver on vaccine patents since October 2020. We now take a look at El Salvador, which has been held internationally responsible in a 13-year-old case related to its severe abortion loss. In 2008, an El Salvadoran court sentenced a woman named Manuela to 30 years in prison. A few months prior, she had gone to a public hospital after undergoing a miscarriage. However, a doctor filed a complaint against her accusing her of having an abortion. Police raided Manuela's home on February 28 and found the body of an infant in a septic tank. She was convicted of aggravated homicide in August. While serving her sentence, Manuela was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma and died in 2010. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has ruled that El Salvador was responsible for violating her rights. These include personal liberty, equality before law, the right to life, personal integrity and health. The court stated that an obstetric emergency was a medical condition and as such could not lead to a criminal sanction. The ruling noted that the investigation into Manuela's case was based on prejudices and she had been left defenseless during the judicial process. The court also ruled that Manuela's death in 2010 was caused by late and irregular medical care. She suffered severe violations during this time including being handcuffed to a hospital bed. El Salvador has now been ordered to pay compensation to Manuela's children. It will also be required to publicly recognize international responsibility and develop a protocol for care in cases of obstetric emergencies. There is a total ban on abortions in El Salvador. An estimated 181 women have been prosecuted for obstetric emergencies in the last 20 years. The European Union has been training and funding Libya's brutal migrant detention system. Led by Italy, it has trained and equipped the Libyan coast guard to stop asylum seekers from reaching Europe. The European Union's border agency Frontex surveils the Mediterranean for migrant rafts. This information is then shared with Libya where the coast guard proceeds to capture asylum seekers. Tens of thousands of such people are then transferred to profit making and militia and detention centers. These findings are part of a report by journalist Ian Urbina in partnership with the Outlaw Ocean Project. In the past 10 months, over 27,000 people have been captured from the Mediterranean Sea and returned to Libya. This is double the number from 2020 and the highest ever on record. The Libyan coast guard is known to have open fire on migrant boats. The UN has also tied it to human trafficking and murder. Despite this, the EU lobbied the UN to expand the coast guard's access to a wider search and rescue zone. It also provided speedboats and shipping containers which served as port offices. 20,000 migrants reached Europe between January and July 2021. The numbers for the same period in 2016 were 70,000. The EU has also diverted funds for so-called humanitarian assistance in detention centers. Severe abuse, unhygienic conditions and overcrowding has been documented in these facilities. At least six migrants were shot and killed while trying to escape from the Mabani detention center in October. Hundreds of people gathered outside the UN office in Tripoli for weeks seeking help to leave the country. And for our final story, we look at a recent arms deal between Israel and Morocco. The state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries received $22 million in 2021 for the sale of armed kamikaze drones. The deal was reported by Israeli newspaper Haritz on November 30. According to defense news, the deal also included the manufacturing of the Harub kamikaze drones in Morocco. The Harub is an unmanned suicide drone. It can fly up to 1,000 kilometers while carrying 20 kilograms of explosives. Reports of the deal followed days after Morocco and Israel signed a memorandum of understanding in Rabat last week. The agreement included arms sales, intelligence sharing, and security cooperation. Hundreds of Moroccans held protests against the relations with Israel on November 29, the day marked the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people. Protests were held in cities including Ujda, Burkani, Penimalal, and Ullatima. A major protest planned in Rabat was banned by authorities. People demanded an end to normalization with Israel and expressed their support for the Palestinian cause. Morocco established relations with Israel under the US-mediated Abraham Accords in 2020. In exchange, the US recognized Morocco's claims over Western Sahara. Morocco's occupation of the region is not internationally recognized. Sahara activists have also accused the Moroccan military of committing war crimes and rights violations including missile attacks. And that's all for today. For more such stories, visit our website at www.peoplesdispatch.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thank you for watching.