Cluster: Geopolitics

Human Rights Council: Fundamental or fundamentally flawed?

This content was published on Jun 30, 2021 The Human Rights Council, convening in Geneva, is mired in US-China rivalry, while the Council also faces criticism from developing countries.

International Geneva

How China is redefining human rights at a global level

This content was published on Jun 30, 2021 As it marks its 15th anniversary the UN Human Rights Council has become a battlefield for a showdown between the interests of the West and China.

International Geneva

The long path to justice for war crimes victims

This content was published on Jun 29, 2021 Why is it so hard to prosecute those who commit war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity?

International Geneva

War crimes: holding perpetrators to account

This content was published on Jun 29, 2021 How do we bring war criminals to justice? Who can bring prosecutions? The country where the crimes took place?

Foreign Affairs

Switzerland looks to California to achieve climate goals

This content was published on Jun 25, 2021 SWI swissinfo.ch talked to Environment Minister Simonetta Sommaruga about her first virtual visit overseas, digital diplomacy and climate change.

Foreign Affairs

EU remains cagey but firm about future Swiss approach

This content was published on Jun 23, 2021 The Vice-President of the European Commission has said that a general framework remains important. More details of the EU approach will come in autumn.

Foreign Affairs

Switzerland supports UN-led Xinjiang investigation

This content was published on Jun 22, 2021 The UN wants to look into reports that over a million people have been unlawfully detained, with some subjected to torture or forced labour.

People move the body of a polio vaccination worker who was killed in Jalalabad.

Foreign Affairs

Switzerland to return rejected asylum-seekers to Afghanistan

This content was published on Jun 21, 2021 Switzerland has decided to resume the deportation of rejected asylum-seekers to Afghanistan, it has been confirmed.

US President Bill Clinton, right, shakes hands with Syrian President Hafez Assad.

International Geneva

Diplomatic back channels: years of USA-Syria talks in Geneva

This content was published on Jun 21, 2021 The situation at the end of the 1960s in the Middle East is tense. Israel and the Arab states are at war. Syria clashes against Israel over occupied territories in the Golan Heights. The US hopes to stabilise the region by strengthening ties with Arab nations. It is in Geneva that presidents Hafez al-Assad and Jimmy Carter meet in 1977 for peace negotiations. The talks are unsuccessful. In 1990, president George H. W. Bush meets Assad in Geneva again. The context is tense, and only a few weeks…

International Geneva

Swiss gave Putin and Biden watches at Geneva summit

This content was published on Jun 20, 2021 Switzerland gave watches to US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at this week’s historic summit in Geneva.

Cluster: Geopolitics

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