Cluster: Geopolitics

WHO assembly in Geneva plans global pandemic pact

This content was published on Dec 1, 2021 The 194 member nations of the World Health Organisation, including Switzerland, have pledged to open talks on a new global deal to better deal with pandemics.

International Geneva

Omicron exposes our pandemic failures

This content was published on Nov 30, 2021 Responses to the new Omicron Covid-19 variant leave an uncomfortable feeling that we might be about to make the same mistakes all over again.

International Geneva

Inside Geneva Podcast: Do we need a pandemic treaty?

This content was published on Nov 30, 2021 Vaccines have been developed in record time, yet nearly half the world’s population has not received a single dose. What has gone wrong?

Workers dismantle infrastructure for WTO s 12th Ministerial Conference in Geneva.

International Geneva

Some quiet relief as Covid aborts the WTO ministerial

This content was published on Nov 30, 2021 Several of the World Trade Organization’s big member states will now avoid being put on the spot.

Opinion

International Geneva

How can we address future health threats?

This content was published on Nov 29, 2021 International disaster law offers valuable insights for pandemic treaty negotiations, argue researchers at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

Ignazio Cassis and Wang Yi shaking hands at an earlier meeting in Bern in 2019.

Foreign Affairs

Plane fault cancels Swiss foreign minister’s trip to China

This content was published on Nov 27, 2021 Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis cancels meeting with Chinese Wang Yi after a technical fault on his government jet.

Protesters disrupt the Schweiz-Europa Forum in Lucerne.

Foreign Affairs

Switzerland and China to hold strategic talks on Saturday

This content was published on Nov 26, 2021 Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis, is set to fly to China to “pursue bilateral dialogue” with his Chinese counterpart.

Protest against Geneva visit by Eric Zemmour.

Foreign Affairs

Protest held against Zemmour visit to Geneva

This content was published on Nov 25, 2021 Around 1,000 people protested in Geneva on Wednesday against a visit by the French far-right commentator Eric Zemmour.

International Geneva

Red Cross elects first female president

This content was published on Nov 25, 2021 The Swiss-run International Committee of the Red Cross has elected Mirjana Spoljaric Egger as its next president.

Passersby in front of posters for Beijing Winter Olympics

Foreign Affairs

Pressure builds for a diplomatic boycott of Beijing Games

This content was published on Nov 25, 2021 Switzerland will struggle to defy calls to skip the Winter Olympics, if other democratic states decide to stage a diplomatic boycott of Beijing 2022.

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