L’Appel de Genève demande la libération de Julian Assange
C’est au nom des valeurs humanitaires enracinées à Genève, Cité de paix, du dialogue et des droits de l’Homme que cet appel...
Focus on Afghanistan: How the Afghan president helped his brother secure lucrative mining deals...
A longer version of this article was originally published by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
Sh’ma Yisrael – A Mort Report Extra
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport.
Photo...
Nepal’s Covid Doctors
Politics are feeding the fire. For the second time in five months, Nepal’s government was dissolved on 22 May 2021, furthering bureaucratic...
Philip and Sadruddin: Two extraordinary visionaries
PERSONAL VIEW
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, 27th January, 2017
Dear Ms.Willday,
The Duke of...
A Swiss initiative to redo the Internet: crypto scepticism abounds
You may have caught a whiff of last month’s explosive climb into cryptocurrencies' top 10 valuations by a mammoth Swiss-based project to...
Christine Brooke-Rose: International Geneva’s invisible author
Christine Brooke-Rose (1923-2012), born in Geneva but in retirement a long-time resident of Lou Jas in Les Maquignons (The Horsedealers), near Avignon...
Understanding Nagorno Karabakh
A recent speech by Russian politician and former President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has again provoked active debate on social networks....
Switzerland stumbles again in COVID’s ‘third wave’
Update 5 March 2021: Swiss government to offer free coronavirus tests for all (LINK). First published 3 March 2021.
SPECIAL YOUTH WRITES: Dealing with COVID – Ideas, experiences, studies, sports,...
The following has been compiled by Global Geneva Group's Youth Writes initiative with ideas and suggestions aimed mainly young people, but...
Navalny’s Gambit: Can the imprisoned opposition leader have a role in...
Editor's Note: Alexei Navalny, who returned to Russia from Germany in late January 2021 was jailed for three and a half...
Amanda Gorman: The vital power of youth and words
A Rock, a River, a Tree Hosts of species long departed Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried tokens Of their...
Business as usual: no longer acceptable for young people
For my 20 year-old son, who is studying finance at Edinburgh University, engaging with business investment and social entrepreneurship is what matters....
Focus on Afghanistan: How the Afghan president helped his brother secure...
A longer version of this article was originally published by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
Nepal’s Covid Doctors
Politics are feeding the fire. For the second time in five months, Nepal’s government was dissolved on 22 May 2021, furthering bureaucratic...
The Last Great Coral Reef Wilderness
In the middle of the Indian Ocean lies the Chagos Archipelago, a collection of atolls and submerged banks where the reefs have...
The Ethiopian-Tigray Conflict: View of a worsening situation from the other...
Fleeing violence in Tigray, Ethiopia, more than 61,000 people have registered as refugees after crossing the border into Sudan since November 2020....
Afghanistan: the abandonment of a nation
In autumn 2001, having returned from Afghanistan just prior to the 9 September assassination by Al Qaeda of northern Afghan resistance commander...
Rencontre Biden et Poutine: une bonne chose pour Genève
« La rencontre entre les présidents des Etats-Unis et de la Russie est la meilleure chose qui pouvait arriver à Genève et à ...
Philip and Sadruddin: Two extraordinary visionaries
PERSONAL VIEW
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, 27th January, 2017
Dear Ms.Willday,
The Duke of...
Une étude soutenue par l’ONU et un livre pour expliquer l’Histoire...
Peut-on classer le bonheur des citoyens vivant des réalités diverses dans des Nations aux situations parfois diamétralement opposées ? Affirmatif, estime une étude...
Urgence climatique : piqûre de rappel du Secrétaire général de l’ONU...
Dans une déclaration publiée le 26 févier 2021, le Secrétaire général de l’ONU António Guterres a tiré une nouvelle fois la sonnette...
International Switzerland’s gold mine of knowledge: an unexploited global asset
Despite the promise, Switzerland is doing relatively little about getting the rest of the world to understand what this incredible community of international...
The case for letting go of humanitarian reform
While there’s consensus that the humanitarian system is under stress, successive waves of reform over the past couple of decades have failed....
A Swiss initiative to redo the Internet: crypto scepticism abounds
You may have caught a whiff of last month’s explosive climb into cryptocurrencies' top 10 valuations by a mammoth Swiss-based project to...
Christine Brooke-Rose: International Geneva’s invisible author
Christine Brooke-Rose (1923-2012), born in Geneva but in retirement a long-time resident of Lou Jas in Les Maquignons (The Horsedealers), near Avignon...
Basel’s uneasy cross-border relationship with Nazi Germany 1933-1945
As a baby boomer of Swiss origin born in the United States, I was always fascinated by Switzerland’s survival role as a...
Murder in Room 117: How the assassination of one of America’s...
As a young foreign correspondent, I undertook my first reporting assignment to Kabul in October 1979, seven months after the killing of...
Tackling poverty and ageism post-COVID, if you can’t join Nomadland
We don't all have the courage to join Bob Wells, founder of the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous and CheapRVLiving. And sociologically, the film...
Steve McCurry (Part II): The complications of photography
Feature Photo: Copyright Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry has earned fame as a
photographer who produced some of the most exquisitely...
