Switzerland and the pandemic: Does the economy matter more?
UPDATED 9 December, 2020: Unlike most Europeans and North Americans, East Asians take their masks seriously. From China, Taiwan and Thailand to Singapore, people have tended traditionally to wear face gear in...
The ex-monk and the Thai sex mafia: helping victims find another way
We have selected Hartanto Gunawan as one of our Global Genevans. These are inspired individuals, such as French water wizard Alain Gachet, Danish environmentalist Inger Andersen or Swiss ornithologist Luc Hoffmann,...
Philip and Sadruddin: Two extraordinary visionaries
PERSONAL VIEW
BUCKINGHAM PALACE, 27th January, 2017
Dear Ms.Willday,
The Duke of Edinburgh has asked me to write and thank you for...
Switzerland’s proposed responsible business reforms: no great expectations
Agent Provocateur is Global Geneva’s oped section.
The campaigners for the initiative were attempting to end the impunity of Swiss multinational corporations against human rights abuses and environmental...
America’s – and NATO’s – Afghanistan disaster: Still a possible peace solution with a...
By Edward Girardet & Peter Jouvenal
The following article was shortlisted but not finally selected by the Geneva-based Oslo Forum as part of its 2021 Peace Writer Prize. A...
Internships: My experience with a human rights foundation
I still remember that day about a year ago when the Communication Manager from the Martin Ennals Foundation (MEF) called me to tell me that I was hired for the internship. I...
International Switzerland’s gold mine of knowledge: an unexploited global asset
Despite the promise, Switzerland is doing relatively little about getting the rest of the world to understand what this incredible community of international aid workers, academics, entrepreneurs, researchers, policymakers and advocates has to...
Chappatte plonge ‘Au cĹ“ur de la vague du coronavirus’
EDITION FRANCAISE: La deuxième vague de Covid-19 frappe de plein fouet des millions de citoyens sur tous les continents. À l’incrédulité ressentie depuis mars dernier a succédé l’angoisse. Pour tenter de comprendre...
Switzerland stumbles again in COVID’s ‘third wave’
For a wealthy country boasting a leading pharmaceutical and medical research hub, Switzerland has dealt poorly with the corona crisis.
Update...
‘Roger Federer, welcome home!’
Finally he did it. The dreaded moment of his retirement, much anticipated over the past decade.
It came just after midnight on 24 September...
Eliminating nuclear weapons before they eliminate us
Last month on 24 October 2020, the Treaty
on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW),
adopted in July 2017 by 122 states at the United Nations, reached 50
ratifications. This triggered the treaty's entry into...
Focus on Afghanistan: The country’s ‘Businesswoman of the Year’ escapes from Kabul.
Like a Horror Movie
It is Monday, 16 August 2021. Hassina Syed, who is 41, is in central Kabul when her mobile phone rings. Her friend screams, shouting into...
Chappatte: Plunging into the depths of the Coronavirus wave
ENGLISH VERSION:
The second wave of Covid-19 has hit millions hard on all continents. The disbelief felt since last March has been succeeded by the anguish many of...
2020 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature: Mia Couto
The Jan Michalski Foundation jury noted the “exceptional quality of the writing, which subtlely mixes orality and narrative, letters, tales, fables, dreams and beliefs, all in the heart of a historical reality,...
Agenda 2021: a youth cure for the UN
Any new hire entering the United Nations these days must be struck by the fact that not only is the institution showing its age, but its top management is too. The UN...
COVID-19: Anti-vaccine paranoia, disinformation and disregard for others undermine end to pandemic
The refusal by so many to vaccinate is not only endangering lives but also subverting global efforts to turn the pandemic around. As the World Health Organization, GAVI, UNICEF and a host...
Geneva and Afghanistan: War and peace in the time of COVID-19
For most people around the world, 2020 will be remembered as the year of COVID-19. A period that redefined anxiety, isolation, and abandonment and rekindled the spirit of community, connections, and solidarity...
Focus on Afghanistan: The Essential Field Guide to Afghanistan. 4th fully-revised edition. (2014) –...
See additional articles on Afghanistan in Global Insights Magazine (search www.global-geneva.com) plus our specialised updated collection of good pieces on Afghanistan by other media. (See Nusereal link: https://www.nusereal.com/afghan.php)
Swiss crypto: what comes next and why you should care about it
You may have no interest in cryptocurrencies or consider them a Ponzi rip-off like Nouriel Roubini or Nobel Economics Prizewinner Paul Krugman, i.e. you don't want to be the last crypto holder...
Le droit au retour des réfugiés et déplacés palestiniens rend-il impossible la paix entre...
Le chaud et le froid. La situation au
Moyen-Orient connaîtra-t-elle un nouvel élan après le départ de Donald Trump,
soutien inconditionnel du Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahou, l’arrivée
de Joe Biden à la présidence des...
Cent ans de multilatéralisme actif à Genève
EDITION FRANCAISE: L’éditrice Suzanne Hurter déclare dans un message filmé de présentation : « J’ai eu envie de réaliser cet ouvrage, lorsque j’ai appris que la Société des Nations fêtait son centième anniversaire. Il...
The 2021 Martin Ennals Award: Yu Wensheng of China
Updated: 1850 Hours. Thursday, 11 February, 2021. The Awards ceremony, including profile videos of the three finalists, can be watched HERE.
Agent Provocateur is Global Geneva’s op-ed column for quality...
Building Bridges for Geneva and the world: Breaking the silos
On the face of it,
what International Switzerland has to offer is exceptional in the way of
knowledge, expertise and diplomacy, particularly with regard to the UN’s
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But unless more appropriate...
Focus on Afghanistan: Jaw-Jaw is the only Solution
Agent Provocateur is Global Insights' op-ed section.
A moment of truth is in the offing for Afghanistan’s estimated 35 million people, plus the 5-6 million in the diaspora...
Une étude soutenue par l’ONU et un livre pour expliquer l’Histoire mondiale du bonheur
Peut-on classer le bonheur des citoyens vivant des réalités diverses dans des Nations aux situations parfois diamétralement opposées ? Affirmatif, estime une étude compilée sous l’égide de l’Organisation des Nations Unies, publiée le...
Looking at Davos: the how-to of successful virtual meetings
The coronavirus pandemic has promoted a lot of new thinking as to how one can produce an inciteful and competitive online gathering that will draw both participants and audiences. Many people are...
Covid-19 : l’électrochoc pour un rééquilibrage entre environnement, être humain et économie (French edition)
L’élection à la présidence et vice-présidence des Etats-Unis du duo Joe Biden-Kamala Harris permettra-t-elle de faire avancer le dossier de l’engagement des Etats en faveur du climat, après la signature de l’Accord...
The UN must not fail the people of Myanmar…again.
Earlier this month on 12 July, 2021, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution on Myanmar, the latest of a series of resolutions by UN bodies since the military coup...
Podcast interviews: STEP into a Better World – A call to action (9-10 December,...
As media partner with Impact17 for the STEP into a Better World conference in Geneva, Global Insights Magazine and Global Geneva Group have co-hosted a number of pod interviews (available below) with...
L’Appel de Genève demande la libération de Julian Assange
C’est au nom des valeurs humanitaires enracinées à Genève, Cité de paix, du dialogue et des droits de l’Homme que cet appel est lancé, affirment les signataires. Julian Assange, dont la santé...
Urgence climatique : piqûre de rappel du Secrétaire général de l’ONU et livre pour...
Dans une déclaration publiée le 26 févier 2021, le Secrétaire général de l’ONU António Guterres a tiré une nouvelle fois la sonnette d’alarme : Le moment est venu. La coalition mondiale engagée à ...
The Public-Relations Industry Grabs a Foothold in the UN
The following article was first published by Passblue.com, an independent, women-led journalism site based in New York that closely covers the US-UN relationship, women’s issues, human rights, peacekeeping and other key...
The case for letting go of humanitarian reform
While there’s consensus that the humanitarian system is under stress, successive waves of reform over the past couple of decades have failed. Five years after a laundry list of changes were agreed...
Frozen Afghan Funds: The need for urgent UN Security Council action
The following article is offered on an oped basis.
United Against Inhumanity (UAI)launched a campaign on 8th March to challenge the decision by some governments to freeze Afghan national reserves that...
Dealing with new realities: Cities must adapt to climate change
Agent Provocateur is Global Insights oped section. This is being republished in English with the kind permission of El Pais on the occasion of World Cities Day, 31 October 2021. The...
‘Your brain is hazardous to your wealth’ — warns investing whiz Patrick Geddes
Patrick’s only partly joking. Co-founder and former CEO of the Aperio Group, an asset management pioneer with $42 billion under management at the end of 2020 when it was acquired by BlackRock,...
The poor are everywhere: what can one person do?
Agent Provocateur is Global Insights’ op-ed section.
Over the past
year and a half, the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened hunger and poverty in many
parts of the world. According to the World...
To Be or Not to Be: Russia’s UN political appointees on the spot.
William Dowell’s regular Tom’s Paine column.
See update at bottom
How do you act when you are supposed to represent the world’s leading international organization...
Focus on Afghanistan: Terror attacks and the guilt of leaving.
GENEVA: What everyone feared has happened. A suicide bomber attacked in the midst of the chaos of panicked people at the airport in Kabul. More than 100 dead and over 150 injured,...
Outgrowing capitalism: a Geneva expert shows how and why we should do it
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is definitely part of the answer Marco Dondi proposes for the multiple crises facing developed as well as developing countries. But the management specialist worries that setting the...
Dominique Ziegler rejoint Miss Marple à l’hôtel Beltram
Toutes illustrations Dominique Ziegler.
Après avoir brillamment écrit et mis en scène des pièces de théâtre évoquant des instants de vie de personnages historiques comme Jaurès, Lénine, Rousseau, Calvin,...
Preparing for the worst
"Essentially we are playing Russian roulette,” says Andrew Leigh. And the biggest threat is the political groundswell known as 'populism'. "We need to move quickly to take that bullet out of...
La veuve de Lokman Slim demande une enquête indépendante sur l’assassinat de son mari
Quel
est le but de votre visite en Suisse ?
Je suis en Suisse pour activer, avec un groupe d’amis, Umam Switzerland, petite sœur suisse de l’association
que nous avons fondée au...
Rencontre Biden et Poutine: une bonne chose pour Genève
« La rencontre entre les présidents des Etats-Unis et de la Russie est la meilleure chose qui pouvait arriver à Genève et à la Genève internationale » Le Président du Conseil d’État de Genève
GENEVA BUILDING BRIDGES EVENT: Leveraging International Switzerland to the World
From systemic failure to systems rebirth - Reinforcing and Leveraging the existing Geneva / Swiss Bridge to the World for larger commercial and social impact - A physical event of the...
Geneva Press Club Panel on Water: weapon of war or instrument of peace?
In 2017, the IPU’s Committee on Middle East Questions held two round tables on the question of water in the region. You will participate in a panel concerning water security and...
Avraham Burg: A federal system for Israel
“I would like to explore the possibility of introducing the federal system in Israel” Avraham Burg
In a lecture at the Global Studies Institute
(GSI) you explained why the...
Montreux et Vevey, une atmosphère de dolce vita en Suisse
Montreux, ville de musique, avec le Festival de jazz le plus célèbre du monde. Vevey, ville d’images, Corsier-sur-Vevey et son captivant Chaplin’s World élu meilleur musée d’Europe en 2018 par l'Académie européenne...
Good journalism is not enough. The real issue is how to fund it.
The following article is one of a series examining the role of independent journalism as a crucial component for disseminating solutions-based information in the public interest, particularly youth. If you like...
Virtual/hybrid conferences: Has there been an event reset since COVID?
Agent Provocateur is Global Insights’ oped section
In my small world of moderating at events, however, nothing much has changed – unfortunately. I had hoped that some of the best...
