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Outgoing Swiss ambassador praises WHO role during pandemic

World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva.

This content was published on Jun 15, 2020 The impact of the coronavirus pandemic could have been much worse without the WHO, according to Swiss ambassador Valentin Zellweger.

view of the ceiling of the human rights council and the seats of the US delegation

International Geneva

Rights Council in Geneva to debate racism and police violence

This content was published on Jun 15, 2020 The UN Human Rights Council is to hold a debate about racism and following worldwide outrage about police violence in the US.

A US marine searches an Afghan man in Helmand Province (2009).

Foreign Affairs

Switzerland ‘regrets’ US sanctions against ICC employees

This content was published on Jun 13, 2020 Switzerland urges the United States to lift sanctions against ICC staff investigating whether US forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan.

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Government agrees Swiss soldiers can support UN humanitarian demining

This content was published on Jun 12, 2020 A group of four Swiss army officers is set to help a United Nations agency in Geneva with its humanitarian demining activities.

International Geneva

Swiss-Egyptian lawyer in contention for the top post at the WTO

This content was published on Jun 9, 2020 Hamid Mamdouh, a Geneva-based Swiss-Egyptian lawyer, has been officially nominated by Egypt to become the next WTO director general.

Foreign Affairs

Guatemalan ex-police chief appeals to European Court of Human Rights

This content was published on Jun 9, 2020 Erwin Sperisen, the former head of Guatemala’s police force, has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)

International Geneva

US withdrawal from the WHO ‘hasn’t been fully thought through’

This content was published on Jun 8, 2020 Global health specialist Ilona Kickbusch explains the implications of the Donald Trump's decision to end the US relationship with the WHO.

Foreign Affairs

Swiss torture rapporteur denounces US ‘racial terror’

This content was published on Jun 5, 2020 The UN’s special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, has called for independent investigations into excessive force used by police against Afro-Americans.

International Geneva

Geneva water jet, stopped by Covid-19, to spout again with ceremony

This content was published on Jun 5, 2020 Geneva’s famous “jet d’eau” is to start up again next Thursday, after being shut down since March 20 to protect its maintenance workers from Covid-19. The shutdown was also meant to “incarnate” the authorities’ health recommendations against the virus, according to a statement on Friday from Geneva canton’s presidential office. Relaunch of the lakeshore water…

International Geneva

China flexes its muscles at the United Nations

Flaunting its role as a great power, China is wielding expanding influence in a UN weakened by the battering from the Trump administration.

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