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Climate refugees left in legal limbo

This content was published on Jun 3, 2025 “Climate refugees” are not recognised by international law. Should a new status be created to protect them?

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Over 50 former diplomats blast Switzerland for ‘silence’ on Israel

This content was published on Jun 1, 2025 In a joint letter, 55 former diplomats have expressed their shock at Switzerland’s “silence and passivity” regarding Israel’s “war crimes” in Gaza.

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From pandemics to climate change, can we work together?

This content was published on May 27, 2025 Inside Geneva looks at what collaboration can look like as US pulls out of WHO and climate talks.

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What is the cost for killing humanitarians?

This content was published on May 26, 2025 Médecins Sans Frontières calls for respect of international law and the end of attacks on humanitarian aid workers.

Children react as Palestinians wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, April 24, 2025.

International Geneva

A Geneva-based NGO is Israel’s answer to aid in Gaza

This content was published on May 21, 2025 The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an NGO backed by Israel and the US, will privatise aid into Gaza. The UN has strongly opposed the plan.

President John F. Kennedy signed the Foreign Assistance Act on 3 November 1961. It served as the legal basis for the creation of USAID that same month.

International Geneva

How the United States used humanitarian aid for influence

This content was published on May 20, 2025 By dismantling USAID and weakening a pillar of US diplomacy, Washington risks running counter to its own interests.

Is there a future for the humanitarian sector? What should it look like?

With key donors cutting aid budgets, the humanitarian sector faces a crisis. What strategies can organisations adopt to navigate this challenge?

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Workers unload humanitarian aid and relief goods for Sudan floods victims that were sent from UAE's emirate of Dubai, September 7, 2022.

International Geneva

Who will come to the aid of a humanitarian system left behind by the West?

This content was published on May 14, 2025 Emerging players such as China and the Gulf states could step up their financial contributions – but are likely to bypass the UN system.

An Ethiopian man carries a USAID donated sack of wheat on his shoulders to be distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, in May 2021.

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Trump’s aid cuts plunge humanitarian sector into existential crisis

This content was published on May 8, 2025 US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House has come with sweeping cuts to humanitarian aid.

Illustration depicting the break of USAID and Geneva, Switzerland.

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Is Geneva prepared for Trump’s – and others’ – cuts to foreign aid?

This content was published on Mar 22, 2025 US cuts to foreign aid will have implications reaching around the world. For Geneva, home to thousands of NGOs, a lot is at stake.

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