(Extended deadline: 30 September, 2020) – Global Geneva launches 2nd edition Youth Writes Awards...
"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in." Robert Louis Stevenson
Updated...
‘People, planet, profit can be the new norm, with a COVID-19 sense of urgency’
What is there good to say about the COVID-19 crisis? Dimitri de Vreeze, co-CEO of DSM, a big Dutch company producing health,...
Law and Disorder in the U.S.: Time for a rethink
After hundreds of
incidents in which African Americans were killed by police, mostly over trivial
infractions, or shot by overzealous neighbors, it should be...
SWISS Air still refusing to social distance on flights posing a severe risk to...
UPDATE 18 June 2020: Earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially changed its guidelines maintaining that masks be worn at...
Paul Ress: A word master is gone
Many PR bureaucrats in the United Nations
and even NGOs could not understand why or how Paul was so phenomenally
successful as an information...
On Young Dogs and Old Tricks
TUCSON, Arizona — I used to say the only difference between 23 and dead is all in the mind. Now, a lot...
Pandemics, climate change and UN reform
These past few months of COVID-19 have proven both brutal and sobering. But the lessons are clear....
(Extended deadline: 30 September, 2020) – Global Geneva launches 2nd edition...
"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in." Robert Louis Stevenson
Updated...
The first Youth Writes information & young leadership webinar
Welcome to this first in our series of information webcasts and video specials focusing on quality journalism, compelling writing, photojournalism, videography, cartooning,...
A chance for high school students worldwide to get published
Years ago, as an aspiring writer just out of university, I received my first job as a...
Internships of a lifetime
This article is part of Global Geneva’s Youth
Writes Focus on Internships, a series of articles and other access
options designed to help young...
Mountain Biking Blasts in the Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc Region
This outdoors feature is part of Global Geneva's 'Youth Writes' initiative.
I began riding as a kid in the south of England before joining a...
One expat recruit’s experience in Switzerland’s militia
This article is part of Global Geneva's 'Youth Writes' initiative encouraging young people to write, but also better understand the role of quality journalism. The...
The Continuing Battle for Okinawa
Despite opposition by many Okinawans, the U.S. is holding on to its military power in these nominally Japanese islands. Once resistance to...
Coronavirus Stories: Letter from London. On the NHS Frontline with COVID...
Working in healthcare is never easy; but working through the Covid-19 pandemic takes all the usual stresses, strains and anxieties and amplifies...
Coronavirus Stories: Lessons from the roller coaster life of an Italian...
Tears do not roll easily from the eyes of veteran journalists who have covered death and destruction in many parts of...
Botswana’s rhino poaching crisis: COVID-19 increases the pressure
Any thought that the coronavirus outbreak and supposed clampdowns in China and other East Asia countries on illegal wildlife trade and markets...
Coronavirus Stories: When uncomfortable becomes comfortable
I am a city boy. Call that a curse or a blessing. But I also want to have my cake and...
Coronavirus Stories: My Verbier Covid-19 Experience
It all started with a get-together in the 1,500 metre-high Swiss alpine resort of Verbier. Perhaps it started even before then; I will...
HELVETICA: Swiss Style and 60 years of font war
"The Swiss were good," admits the authoritative design magazine Print. What it meant was the post-1945 artistic movement from Switzerland launched...
Rachel et les siens : le roman de Metin Arditi qui...
Metin Arditi est l’un des écrivains francophones les plus lus. Parmi la douzaine de romans qu’il a signés figurent également Victoria-Hall, La...
‘People, planet, profit can be the new norm, with a COVID-19...
What is there good to say about the COVID-19 crisis? Dimitri de Vreeze, co-CEO of DSM, a big Dutch company producing health,...
Zooming in on the circular economy
First, the circular economy is not just about recycling. Lynda Mansson, Director General of the Mava Foundation (created by Swiss environmentalist and...
Michael Merne Photo Essay: Genevans keep one step ahead of COVID-19
You look at the photographs in today’s electronic and print media and you’re forced to say: “That’s how it is.” But with...
Utopia3 podcasts from the world’s human rights capital
Launched in Geneva at the end of May, 2020, utopia3’s first season of eight podcasts has already been made available with three...
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Métropole horlogère et ville de culture
Le visiteur prend le train ou la route de la Vue des Alpes pour arriver à La Chaux-de-Fonds. La Métropole horlogère, sise...
The Artistic World of Betsabeé Romero in Mexico
Betsabeé Romero is now listening to the suddenly silent streets of Mexico City, North America’s largest city. From her little street house...
Cinematic Street Photography: The definitive guide
What is cinematic street photography?
Cinematic Street Photography is a street shot that looks like a frame from a...
Moving together: jazz from a funky Swiss philosopher
Philosophers’ ideas for music are rarely fun. Among the Swiss, Friedrich Nietzsche's music is nobody's idea of a good time. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's...
Running an English bookstore in the time of the pandemic
Matthew Wake with Clare O'Dea, author of The Naked Irish. (Photo: Books, Books, Books)
A pandemic swept through my bookshop ten...
Rural Rock: Queen, Oasis and the Ridge Farm Story
When some 30 police officers raided both Ridge Farm, one of England’s earliest rural rock recording studios, and the nearby Plough Pub,...
