Geneva Solutions • 24th September 2026

Uncertainties and leadership change overshadow reform drive at UN

NEW YORK – As New York buzzes with UNGA week diplomacy, a looming leadership race and questions about an ongoing reform process underlie uncertainties about the future of the global organisation, with Geneva also at risk.

Geneva Solutions • 18th September 2026

Who wants to lead the WHO? Four candidates jostle for top job as deadline nears

As the nomination deadline nears for the global health body, some candidates may be better placed than others to win support from key member states amid the agency’s geopolitical realignment.

Geneva Solutions • 18th September 2026

UN leadership straw poll still fails to reveal clear front-runner

The ongoing search for the next leader of the United Nations continues after a third straw poll failed to yield a candidate seemingly capable of braving veto-wielding opposition in the Security Council.

Geneva Solutions • 17th September 2026

UN General Assembly: reform, rivalries and Trump's shadow

It’s that time of year again when world leaders descend on New York for the United Nations’ annual general assembly. In this special podcast episode, Dulcie Leimbach, editor-in-chief of PassBlue, and Paula Dupraz-Dobias, journalist at Geneva Solutions, sit down to discuss some of the critical issues at stake for the multilateral organisation.

Geneva Solutions • 1st September 2026

Peru nominates far-right political careerist as latest candidate to lead ILO

As the deadline closed for ILO leadership nominees, a former Peruvian foreign minister joined Spain’s labour minister and the incumbent director general in a race to head the financially embattled UN agency. Experts consider what the new candidate may bring to the contest.

Geneva Solutions • 20th August 2026

Trump aid creeps back, setting the sector to a new tune

After steep aid cuts in 2025, the US has resumed funding to the UN and other organisations responding to mounting humanitarian crises. But conditions attached reveal a selective approach, and there is concern that other donors are not filling the gaps.

Geneva Solutions • 5th August 2026

Despite Infantino scrutiny, UN agencies in Geneva don’t disavow collaborations with Fifa

Amid the ongoing fallout from Fifa’s governance crisis, international agencies are not saying much about how this reflects on cooperation deals signed in recent years as the football organisation sought international legitimacy, including some that have come under fire.

Geneva Solutions • 31st July 2026

UN trade and development chief leads informal poll in UN chief race

Informal voting to select the next UN leader kicked off Thursday in the Security Council, with former Costa Rican vice-president Rebeca Grynspan emerging as the early favourite. It remains to be seen who the five veto-yielding powers will back, in a process veiled in secrecy.

Geneva Solutions • 29th July 2026

UN refugee agency in talks with US following reports of departure threats

UN refugee chief Barham Salih downplayed a crisis within the UN refugee agency following media reports that Washington was considering ditching the agency and stripping it of its key financial support.

Geneva Solutions • 27th July 2026

'You end up feeling caged’: Refugee convention turns 75 as states redraw asylum rules

Adopted in the turbulent years after World War II to address the massive displacement in Europe, the UN Refugee Convention marks its 75-year history as governments twist the principles of protection to serve political purposes. For refugees like Peter Kidi, it has real effects.

Geneva Solutions • 26th July 2026

Race for UN's top job enters final, murkiest stretch

This week, the UN Security Council will begin straw-polling for the next secretary general. Sources with inside knowledge of the process say that despite measures adopted to make it more transparent, opacity will prevail.

PassBlue • 13th July 2026

NGOs Allege Rights Abuses by Western States Amid Pandemic Pact Talks

More than a year after the Pandemic Agreement was adopted, talks drag on at the World Health Organization in Geneva this week over a key annex that would ensure health equity and allow developing countries to share pathogen materials with the understanding that resulting treatments will be shared with them.

Geneva Solutions • 13th July 2026

NGOs allege rights abuses by Western countries in deadlocked pandemic agreement talks

Civil society groups are calling on a UN human rights expert to investigate alleged foot-dragging by pharma-intensive countries at ongoing pandemic treaty talks, but will the motion have teeth?

Geneva Solutions • 7th July 2026

UN reform chief admits structural changes ‘difficult’, rules out further budget cuts

Guy Ryder, who is leading UN chief António Guterres’s reform push, says controversial merger proposals were to assess the merits of fusing organisations, not to force decisions on member states.

Geneva Solutions • 1st July 2026

‘Iranian people are barely visible’ in US-Iran deal, says UN rights expert Mai Sato

An initial deal struck between the US and Iran, aimed at de-escalating tensions and paving the way for further talks, fails to address human rights issues, an issue that worries Mai Sato, the UN rights expert on Iran.

Geneva Solutions • 23rd June 2026

Hard work lies ahead for US-Iran negotiators after Bürgenstock talks

Iran’s ambassador in Geneva confirmed that the initial conditions for a peace process agreed with the US had been met. But there is little doubt that much can still go wrong in talks, with both parties disagreeing on what was agreed to regarding UN nuclear inspections.

Geneva Solutions • 18th June 2026

Iran wants to charge ‘fees’ on Hormuz passage. What impacts could that have?

As Iran and the US unveil a preliminary agreement signed on Wednesday, shrouded in political nuances, experts consider what the deal may mean if Tehran imposes fees on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

Geneva Solutions • 15th June 2026

What we know about the US-Iran deal to be inked in Geneva

Geneva may provide the stage this Friday for the greatest breakthrough yet towards ending the US-Israeli war against Iran. But long-held divergences and Trump’s unpredictability make an actual peace agreement still elusive.

Le Temps SA • 7th June 2026

Pékin et Washington, les ombres géantes qui planent sur le destin des Péruviens appelés aux urnes dimanche

Washington veut que Lima reconsidère ses relations commerciales avec Pékin, qui construit à Chancay le plus grand port d’Amérique latine. Un enjeu majeur pour le Pérou, pays instable depuis une décennie qui choisira dimanche un nouveau président

Geneva Solutions • 17th May 2026

How serious is the UN’s warning of imminent bankruptcy?

Amid warnings that UN funding may run out by mid-summer, a member state finance committee has the option to change an outdated rule that has made the organisation’s budget crisis a lot worse.