Cluster: Geopolitics

Switzerland to lead UN Human Rights Council in 2025

This content was published on Dec 11, 2024 Swiss Ambassador Jürg Lauber has been chosen by the United Nations Human Rights Council as its president for 2025.

Agribusiness

Child labour is not just the chocolate industry’s problem

This content was published on Dec 11, 2024 There’s a dirty secret lurking behind the rich aroma of a morning coffee, the shine on gold jewellery, and the wafting smoke of a lit cigarette.

International Geneva

2024: UN correspondents look back

This content was published on Dec 10, 2024 What has stood out in 2024? Our Inside Geneva podcast looks back at the year.

Reporters photographers and TV reporters are pictured, during the opening of the 57th session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland

International Geneva

Inside Geneva: how has the world changed in 2024?

This content was published on Dec 10, 2024 In this week’s Inside Geneva podcast episode, journalists at the United Nations in Geneva and New York look back at 2024.

SEM suspends asylum procedure for asylum seekers from Syria

Foreign Affairs

Swiss suspend decisions on asylum-seekers from Syria

This content was published on Dec 10, 2024 Asylum procedures and decisions for asylum-seekers from Syria will be suspended with immediate effect until the situation can be reassessed, the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) said.

Max Schneeberger in the kitchen of the "Tilendieva" clubhouse in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Global elections

Swiss entrepreneur Max Schneeberger pursues cultural mission in Almaty

This content was published on Dec 10, 2024 Since taking early retirement, the Swiss national has made a new career giving a boost to democracy in his adopted country of Kazakhstan.

Jürg Lauber becomes new Chairman of the UN Human Rights Council

International Geneva

Jürg Lauber elected president of UN Human Rights Council

This content was published on Dec 10, 2024 Jürg Lauber will be the first Swiss to chair the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva in 2025.

Berset: "democracy is taking steps backward in several countries"

Foreign Affairs

Berset: ‘Democracy is regressing in several countries’

This content was published on Dec 9, 2024 Democracy is backsliding in a number of nations and needs to be strengthened, says Alain Berset, secretary general of the Council of Europe.

Foreign Affairs

Syrians in Switzerland celebrate ousting of Assad

This content was published on Dec 9, 2024 The Syrian exile community in Switzerland has reacted with joy to the fall of the Assad regime.

Assad's fall: Switzerland calls for reconciliation in Syria

Foreign Affairs

Fall of Assad: Switzerland calls for reconciliation in Syria

This content was published on Dec 9, 2024 Following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, the Swiss foreign ministry has called on all parties to protect civilians and respect international humanitarian law.

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