Geneva Solutions • 24th April 2025

WHO’s elusive plans to scale back fray nerves

Just weeks before the annual World Health Assembly, the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed its latest proposals to slim the nearly 10,000 staff-strong organisation, as donor cuts weigh heavily on the UN agency.

Geneva Solutions • 14th April 2025

Autocrats in Azerbaijan and elsewhere emboldened by Trump’s disdain for multilateralism

As the US government veers away from its engagements with multilateral organisations and redefines rights and social protection at home, Azerbaijan is one of several authoritarian governments taking note, to set new limits on impunity.

SWI swissinfo.ch • 10th April 2025

What’s behind Switzerland’s caution over unfreezing Russian assets to aid Ukraine?

Calls are mounting on both sides of the Atlantic for frozen Russian assets to be released to fund Ukraine’s war and reconstruction costs. Switzerland is under pressure to do more. But it’s not that simple.

Climate Home News • 10th April 2025

African teens' mental health suffers on the climate frontlines

Teaching climate-resilient farming to young people in rural Global South communities and encouraging them to stay in school could help ward off mental health problems triggered by worsening climate change impacts, according to new research in Africa.

Le Temps SA • 4th April 2025

Kenneth Roth, trente ans de lutte pour les droits de l’homme: «La Chine est le seul pays qui veut les réécrire»

L’Américain Kenneth Roth a dirigé l’organisation Human Rights Watch pendant trois décennies. Il explique sa stratégie, décrypte comment elle pourrait fonctionner sur Donald Trump et pourquoi la Chine est à ses yeux la plus grande menace.

Geneva Solutions • 30th March 2025

Kenneth Roth, three decades of ‘naming and shaming’ autocrats

After leading Human Rights Watch for three decades, Kenneth Roth stepped down in 2022 to write a memoir about his mission to uphold rights and pressure governments that violate them to change their policies. He tells Geneva Solutions how he made that happen and why he thinks China is the biggest threat to the human rights system.

SWI swissinfo.ch • 24th March 2025

UAE vs. Switzerland: rivalry or synergy in commodity trade?

Dubai has positioned itself as a key commodities hub. But that’s not necessarily at the expense of Switzerland.

Geneva Solutions • 9th March 2025

Meet the organisation behind Eurovision and its fight for trusted journalism

Ahead of the annual Eurovision song contest, the head of its organising body unpacks the politics that often accompany the event while defending fact-based journalism as governments and big tech feed the rise of disinformation.

Le Temps SA • 25th February 2025

La politique de Donald Trump pourrait bouleverser la science du climat à l’échelle mondiale

Après que les Etats-Unis ont annoncé leur retrait de l’Accord de Paris, une série de décrets émis par la Maison-Blanche alarment les experts. Ces décisions risquent de défaire le réseau établi de coopération scientifique mondiale sur le climat

Geneva Solutions • 20th February 2025

How Trump policy could unravel global climate science

Since the United States announced it was exiting the Paris agreement, a flurry of subsequent decrees from the White House risk unravelling a carefully woven web of global scientific cooperation on climate, experts warn.

Geneva Solutions • 9th February 2025

Trump orders push humanitarians to brink of ‘aid politicisation’, alerts aid chief Jamie Munn

As the aid sector scrambles to adapt to the sudden disruption in US donor funding, the director of a Geneva-based network of humanitarian organisations warns of political leaders commanding aid at the expense of vulnerable communities.

Geneva Solutions • 27th January 2025

Trump Paris deal exit – what it means for climate finance

In the days since Donald Trump U-turned US climate policy, global leaders and experts are trying to gauge where climate finance will come from after one of the world’s largest donors exits the Paris agreement.

Geneva Solutions • 20th January 2025

Global health groups brace for funding fallout ahead of Trump’s comeback

As Donald Trump is sworn in for the second time as US president, international health organisations in Geneva and millions of the world’s neediest risk being left out in the cold.

Geneva Solutions • 16th January 2025

ILO warns of climate strains on workers as corporations drop ESG goals

Days before the business elite descends on Davos, the United Nations labour agency says climate change presents both threats and opportunities as corporations lose their appetite for sustainability goals.

Geneva Solutions • 16th December 2024

Wealthy nations refuse to foot the climate bill. Can a UN-private sector initiative help bridge the gap?

Two weeks after climate talks in Baku ended with a new climate finance target that fell short of demands, a UN initiative working with private financial institutions convened in Geneva. Its role in shoring up the funding gap is expected to become more relevant than ever.

Geneva Solutions • 2nd December 2024

In Cop29’s shadows, disabled activist’s detention decried as ‘worst’ case of Azerbaijani repression

A disabled critic of the government in Baku extends his hunger strike in protest of detention conditions and wrongful charges. Famil Khalilov’s wife tells Geneva Solutions about his long campaign for justice.

Geneva Solutions • 29th November 2024

Journalists in Azerbaijan ‘are operating on cruise control’, says formerly imprisoned media boss

Over the past year, over a dozen independent journalists have been detained in Azerbaijan for covering stories critical of the government. Classified by Reporters Without Borders as one of the worst countries for press freedom, providing objective news and analysis comes with major risks, as the head of a leading independent news outlet explains.

Geneva Solutions • 29th November 2024

Whispers, self-censorship and crackdowns on free speech prevailed at Cop29

For civil society organisations and media, including representatives of local independent outlets, Azerbaijan’s hosting took restrictions on freedom of expression to a whole new level, leaving questions to be asked about the organisation’s duties to uphold rights at the event.

Chemical & Engineering News • 26th November 2024

The push to mine gold without mercury

UN-backed group helps small-scale miners in the Philippines find a safer alternative–often sodium cyanide

SWI swissinfo.ch • 26th November 2024

What do new rules on carbon offsets mean for dealmaker Switzerland?

Dominated by deep divisions over finance to developing countries and efforts to mitigate global warming, the COP29 climate talks in Baku nonetheless offered a relatively smooth passage for rules on a controversial method to reduce carbon emissions. Switzerland, which is highly reliant on carbon offsets, celebrated the agreement.