Geopolitics

How a top Swiss university is screening Chinese students

People walk in front of the main building of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and the sculpture "The Convalescent" by Otto Charles Baenninger, in Zurich, on November 30, 2024.

This content was published on Dec 12, 2024 ETH Zurich has revealed security screening measures it routinely carries out on some foreign students – provoking fear and anger.

SEM: suspension of asylum procedures affects 500 Syrians in Switzerland

Foreign Affairs

About 500 Syrians affected by Swiss asylum freeze

This content was published on Dec 11, 2024 The suspension of asylum procedures decided Monday following the fall of Bashar al-Assad affects 500 Syrian applicants in Switzerland.

Foreign Affairs

Switzerland has frozen CHF99 million in Syrian funds

This content was published on Dec 11, 2024 Switzerland has frozen Syrian assets worth around CHF 99 million ($112 million).

International Geneva

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.

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