Three candidates vying for the top job pitched their plans on Wednesday to haul the ailing UN labour agency out of crisis-mode. ➡️ https://l.genevasolutions.news/5i

As New York buzzes with UNGA week diplomacy, a looming leadership race and questions about an ongoing reform process underlie uncertainties about the future of the global organisation, with Geneva also at risk. ➡️ https://l.genevasolutions.news/zJ

OPINION The “fog of war”, “special operation”, a ministry of “war” replacing the ministry of “defense”: words speak volumes – and their absence too, writes international law professor Andrew Clapham, who asks why “pacifism” is no longer discussed.

❝Waging war with words: how language normalises violence - Geneva Solutions

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Reporting to the Human Rights Council this week on the Kremlin’s widening crackdown on Russian critics overseas, Maria Katzarova urged states to create a binding international instrument to put a stop to authoritarian governments reaching across borders. 

UN rights expert calls out Moscow’s intensified repression of opponents outside Russia - Geneva Solutions

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OPINION. Competition for scarce resources, widening inequalities, mounting demographic pressures – with tech weapons increasingly accessible, the world is growing ever more dangerous, writes Keith Krause, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding director. ➡️https://l.genevasolutions.news/k5

It’s that time of year again when world leaders descend on New York for the UN General Assembly. In this special podcast episode, PassBlue's Dulcie Leimbach and Geneva Solution's Paula Dupraz-Dobias sit down to discuss some of the critical issues at stake. ➡️ https://l.genevasolutions.news/oR

OPINION. As the boundaries between war and peace blur and rapid advances in artificial intelligence give way to new “narrative wars”, contextualising what is happening is becoming even more critical to the future of our world order, writes Geneva Graduate Institute director Marie-Laure Salles.

❝Reflecting on war to better reinvent peace - Geneva Solutions

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The ICRC president calls for a paradigm shift as the organisation must now engage directly with heads of state. She deplores the the international community’s moral failure in addressing the crisis in Gaza.

Mirjana Spoljaric Egger: ‘Switzerland and the ICRC shouldn’t mix their distinct forms of neutrality’ - Geneva Solutions

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The ongoing search for the next leader of the United Nations continues after a third straw poll failed to yield a candidate seemingly capable of braving veto-wielding opposition in the Security Council. ➡️ https://l.genevasolutions.news/xM

As the nomination deadline nears for the global health body, some candidates may be better placed than others to win support from key member states amid the agency’s geopolitical realignment.

Who wants to lead the WHO? Four candidates jostle for top job as deadline nears - Geneva Solutions

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Helping investors see which companies are resilient enough to withstand climate change is Emmanuel Faber’s driving principle. The chair of the International Sustainability Standards Board, which plans to set up shop in Geneva next year, talks about the move and why ESG has fallen out of fashion.

ISSB chair Emmanuel Faber: ‘There’s global demand for a unified accounting language’ - Geneva Solutions

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Freshly appointed by the Human Rights Council to monitor the human rights impacts of hazardous substances and waste, ecotoxicologist Bethanie Carney Almroth calls on states to prevent chemical pollution before it causes irreversible damage.

UN expert on toxic chemicals: ‘We shouldn’t allow exposure of entire populations and the planet before acting’ - Geneva Solutions

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Nations will gather in Laos this week to assess progress on a convention banning cluster munitions, just as new figures show that 2025 counted one of the highest annual numbers of casualties on record. Campaigners are calling for renewed international condemnation of the weapons.

Cluster munitions treaty put to the test as 2025 casualties hit near-record high - Geneva Solutions

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The UN Human Rights Council condemned the role of external support in fueling hostilities in Sudan after a UN-backed inquiry named, for the first time, parts of the vast, complex network behind it. ➡️ https://l.genevasolutions.news/Kb

The International Labour Organization has approved further job cuts expected to save $22 million amid a deepening liquidity crisis. ➡️ https://l.genevasolutions.news/ZI

Squeezed financially and politically, the Geneva rights body opens this week with another ambitious and wide-ranging agenda. Here’s a breakdown of some of the issues on the table. ➡️ https://l.genevasolutions.news/kx

After two decades of work, a treaty could see the light of day next year, sketching out the rules for how countries help each other when disaster strikes. But they still have to overcome old divides over its implications for sovereignty and human rights.

States are writing the first global rulebook for when disasters strike - Geneva Solutions

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With no specific vaccine against the strain, chains of Ebola transmission are multiplying in a region devastated by three decades of conflict and little access to primary care.

Ebola epidemic in the DRC is deadliest on record, with more than 3,000 deaths - Geneva Solutions

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As the deadline closed for ILO leadership nominees, a former Peruvian foreign minister joined Spain’s labour minister and the incumbent director general in a race to head the financially embattled UN agency. Experts wonder what the new candidate may bring to the contest.

Peru nominates far-right political careerist as latest candidate to lead ILO - Geneva Solutions

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States will meet in Geneva this week to discuss new rules to rein in the development and use of lethal autonomous weapons, amid mounting concerns that humans could soon become the target of “killer robots”.

Killer robots close to breaching ‘moral red line’, warn UN and ICRC amid renewed push for treaty - Geneva Solutions

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A 48-page comic book, titled Critical Code, aims to educate students about the importance of multilateral cooperation. It has been distributed in Geneva’s secondary schools and across 15 other Swiss cantons.

A comic book aims to teach Swiss students about AI and the role international Geneva - Geneva Solutions

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The race to find the next UN chief is well underway, with no clear favourite yet. The impasse has laid bare rifts within the Security Council, stoked concerns of closed-door horse-trading and raised the prospect of more mystery candidates entering the fray. ➡️ https://l.genevasolutions.news/XD

A month before a vote on tightening Swiss neutrality, diplomats, humanitarians and academics are joining the campaign. Whether for or against the proposal, all agree that the outcome on 27 September will be pivotal.

Civil society split over vote to tighten Swiss neutrality - Geneva Solutions

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On World Humanitarian Day, a public artwork next to Geneva University Hospitals exposes the fragility of protections afforded to aid and healthcare workers in war zones. ➡️ https://l.genevasolutions.news/rT

After steep aid cuts in 2025, the US has resumed funding to the UN and other organisations responding to mounting humanitarian crises. But conditions attached reveal a selective approach, and there is concern that other donors are not filling the gaps.

Trump aid creeps back, setting the sector to a new tune - Geneva Solutions

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World Health Organization experts warned that the Ebola outbreak in DRC is still far from contained, as the number of infections exceeded 5,000 on Tuesday. ➡️ https://l.genevasolutions.news/Id

Leading British scientist Jeremy Farrar is set to leave his leadership role at the UN health agency at the end of September. ➡️ https://l.genevasolutions.news/mj

OPINION. Rather than obsessing over the ethics of AI being used to generate text, we should instead focus on how to shape the future of writing to preserve cognitive thinking in the age of AI, writes Jovan Kurbalija, executive director of DiploFoundation. ➡️ https://l.genevasolutions.news/5k

The race to develop a vaccine to help stem the Ebola outbreak is intensifying as it becomes the world’s second-largest on record and the fastest-spreading. Aurélia Nguyen, deputy CEO of Cepi, the non-profit leading vaccine efforts, appears nonetheless optimistic.

The race to develop a vaccine for world’s fastest spreading Ebola - Geneva Solutions

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As AI promises to accelerate global development, the race for dominance risks leaving most countries as bystanders with no choice but to accept a future they had no say in. AI expert Martin Wahlisch argues Geneva must change that – at next year’s global AI summit. ➡️ https://l.genevasolutions.news/Hp