Human rights

Swiss refugee policy for Ukrainians leaves many questions unanswered

This content was published on Jan 17, 2025 Proposed changes to the special status for Ukrainian refugees are drawing criticism and raising doubts about their practical and humanitarian implications.

Kitty (Cornelia Catharina) Ponse, Sumatra 1897 - Geneva 1982, was the last Ponse to live in Geneva (from 1904/05), where she became a professor at the University of Geneva in the Section of Biology - Genetics & Evolution

International Geneva

Ten women who made International Geneva

This content was published on Jan 15, 2025 Profiles of women who have shaped Geneva's humanitarian, scientific, educational and artistic heritage.

The feminist association l’Escouade partnered with the city of Geneva to give more visibility to women in public spaces.

International Geneva

The hard battle for women’s visibility in the streets of Geneva

This content was published on Jan 15, 2025 In 2019, the city of Geneva decided to give women more visibility in public spaces. What it didn't expect was so much backlash.

"It is impossible to fully go back, neither physically nor as a person," says Chris/Nadia Brönimann.

Switzerland’s most renowned trans person no longer wants to be a woman

This content was published on Jan 12, 2025 Chris Brönimann became Nadia just before the turn of the millennium. Now Switzerland's most famous transgender figure is publicly grappling with regret over that choice.

Actor Tilda Swinton in a scene from The Room Next Door.

Assisted suicide

How film and literature have influenced the acceptance of assisted suicide

This content was published on Jan 6, 2025 Powerful stories of assisted dying are etched in our collective memory. Now, a research project from Switzerland is gathering artistic works on the subject.

International cooperation

Escaping poverty through education: child labour in Bangladesh

This content was published on Dec 17, 2024 Bangladesh's progress in combating child labour is under threat. A report from a coastal town in the south of the country.

Residents of Kiritimati, a Pacific atoll, build a stone seawall to rising sea levels resulting from the climate crisis.

Climate solutions

A ‘crucial moment’ for climate justice is unfolding in The Hague

This content was published on Dec 12, 2024 A climate case before the World Court may spell out what countries are legally required to do to combat climate change.

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.

Swiss diplomacy

How a top Swiss university is screening Chinese students

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.

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.

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