Cluster: Geopolitics

Can Switzerland steer a safe course to AI innovation?

AI and humans are coming into closer contact.

This content was published on Feb 14, 2025 Switzerland announces AI strategy as global sentiment shifts from guardrails to a scramble for competitive advantage.

Switzerland releases three million francs for humanitarian aid in the DRC

Foreign Affairs

Switzerland pledges CHF3m humanitarian aid for the DRC

This content was published on Feb 14, 2025 Switzerland is providing CHF3 million for humanitarian aid in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

International Geneva

Geneva plans to pay NGO wages after US foreign aid freeze

This content was published on Feb 14, 2025 Geneva is planning to pay CHF10 million of NGO worker wages following the United States decision to freeze humanitarian aid.

Meta ended its US fact-checking programmes in January and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said he would work with US President Donald Trump to push back on censorship around the world, including in Europe.

International Geneva

How Meta’s fact-checking shift threatens human rights

This content was published on Feb 14, 2025 By scrapping its fact-checking programme, Meta risks harming already marginalised populations.

Switzerland is planning to ban international adoptions, following revelations of shady practices in the past. Other countries banning international adoptions claim they are doing it for the child’s welfare, but sometimes it’s just about power politics.

International cooperation

Why countries are banning international adoptions

This content was published on Feb 14, 2025 Countries banning international adoptions claim they are doing it for the child’s welfare, but sometimes it’s just about power politics.

Foreign Affairs

China rejects report on Tibetans and Uyghurs in Switzerland

This content was published on Feb 13, 2025 The Chinese foreign ministry on Thursday rejected a Swiss government report suggesting that China has been cracking down on Tibetans and Uighurs living in Switzerland.

USAID shutdown: aid agencies call on Cassis to act

Foreign Affairs

USAID funding: Swiss aid groups urge foreign minister to act

This content was published on Feb 13, 2025 Swiss aid agencies and churches have urged Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis to take action following the freeze to funds disbursed by USAID.

A worker in a protective suit pokes a metal rod to tap slag from a smelting furnace at PT Vale Indonesia's nickel processing plant in Sorowako, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. As demand for materials needed for batteries, solar panels and other components vital for cutting global emissions rises, carbon emissions by miners and refiners will likewise rise unless companies actively work to decarbonize. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

International Geneva

Can Indonesia reply to global nickel demand without destroying its environment?

This content was published on Feb 13, 2025 Indonesia's nickel industry is thriving on the back of global demand for electric vehicules. But this comes at the cost of its environment.

Swiss diplomacy

New country, old fear: an overview of Syria’s realities

This content was published on Feb 13, 2025 What role will democracy and secularism play in Syria? An analysis through the eyes of a Syrian living in Switzerland.

A Swiss mercenary dies on the front in Ukraine - a first

Foreign Affairs

First Swiss mercenary dies fighting in Ukraine

This content was published on Feb 12, 2025 For the first time since the start of the Russian invasion in 2022, a Swiss combatant has died on the front in Ukraine.

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