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
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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
Twelve years after the Yazidi genocide perpetrated by Isis, survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad condemns the lack of justice for the victims. To date, at least 2,000 women and children remain missing.
‘We’re still fighting to be seen as human beings,’ says Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad - Geneva Solutions
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Amid the ongoing fallout from Fifa’s governance crisis, international agencies are not saying much about how this reflects on cooperation deals signed in recent years as the football organisation sought international legitimacy, including some that have come under fire.
Despite Infantino scrutiny, UN agencies in Geneva don’t disavow collaborations with Fifa - Geneva Solutions
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Informal voting to select the next UN leader kicked off Thursday in the Security Council, with former Costa Rican vice-president Rebeca Grynspan emerging as the early favourite. It remains to be seen who the five veto-yielding powers will back, in a process veiled in secrecy.
UN trade and development chief leads informal poll in UN chief race - Geneva Solutions
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UN refugee chief Barham Salih downplayed a crisis within the UN refugee agency following media reports that Washington was considering ditching the agency and stripping it of its key financial support. ➡️ https://l.genevasolutions.news/M3
Despite a Supreme Court ruling, Israel has spent more than two years refusing prison visits by the International Committee of the Red Cross – and continues to manoeuvre politically to keep it that way. ➡️ https://l.genevasolutions.news/rK
Adopted in the turbulent years after World War II to address the massive displacement in Europe, the UN Refugee Convention marks its 75-year history as governments twist the principles of protection to serve political purposes. For refugees like Peter Kidi, it has real effects.
'You end up feeling caged’: Refugee convention turns 75 as states redraw asylum rules - Geneva Solutions
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This week, the UN Security Council will begin straw-polling for the next secretary general. Sources with inside knowledge of the process say that despite measures adopted to make it more transparent, opacity will prevail.
Race for UN's top job enters final, murkiest stretch - Geneva Solutions
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The head of the UN’s academic arm, Tshilidzi Marwala, says lawmakers do not need to become AI engineers to oversee regulations. But he warns that without some foundational knowledge, they will struggle to keep up.
UN University rector Tshilidzi Marwala: You can’t regulate AI without fully understanding it - Geneva Solutions
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In 2006, the Human Rights Council was created to fix the failures of its predecessor. Its first president tells of the clever – at times sneaky – diplomacy it took to get it off the ground and why it still struggles with the same problems.
20 years on, the Human Rights Council wrestles with old dilemmas - Geneva Solutions
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Between allegations of harassment, a contested inquiry and judges' findings brushed aside by diplomats, the proceedings against ICC prosecutor Karim Khan have drawn fierce criticism as US sanctions and arrest warrants against Israeli leaders provide a politically charged backdrop.
How the ICC got lost in its own maze - Geneva Solutions
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OPINION. In June, Swiss parliament extended the deadline for drafting a bill to specifically criminalise torture. Four decades after ratifying a global treaty banning the offence, there’s no more excuse for stalling, writes Etienne Cottier, head of advocacy at human rights NGO ACAT-Switzerland.
❝Switzerland helped shape international rules on torture – it must now close the gap at home - Geneva Solutions
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Governments and other stakeholders need to agree on “common rules of the road” for artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t have to come at the cost of innovation, says the boss of the non-profit advocating for responsible AI, at last week’s UN gathering in Geneva.
We need to measure progress in good AI, says Partnership on AI CEO Rebecca Finlay - Geneva Solutions
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Civil society groups are calling on a UN human rights expert to investigate alleged foot-dragging by pharma-intensive countries at ongoing pandemic treaty talks, but will the motion have teeth?
NGOs allege rights abuses by Western countries in deadlocked pandemic agreement talks - Geneva Solutions
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