Mario Botta : confidences entre livre sur l’architecture, tombe et bains thermaux
Toutes les photos: Courtoisie du Bureau d'architectes Mario Botta. Le Fortyseven Spa à Baden, a été inauguré le 21 novembre 2021. Que représente ce projet ? Ce...
Steve McCurry (Part II): The complications of photography
Feature Photo: Copyright Steve McCurry Steve McCurry has earned fame as a
photographer who produced some of the most exquisitely beautiful colour images
in the past several decades. McCurry’s critics, and...
Jimmy and Joe
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport. Global Insights Magazine/Global Geneva Group are supporting Mort’s insightful and frank reporting from different parts of...
Murder in Room 117: How the assassination of one of America’s top diplomats helped...
As a young foreign correspondent, I undertook my first reporting assignment to Kabul in October 1979, seven months after the killing of Adolph ‘Spike’ Dubs, America’s ambassador to Afghanistan, and two months...
Switzerland’s re-opening: Everyone for themselves
Agent Provocateur is Global Insight Magazine's oped component. This is open to invited writers or those organizations that contribute to Global Geneva Group. All content, however, must meet our editorial standards.
2020 World Press Photo of the Year
Straight Voice - Yasuyoshi Chiba, Japan, Agence France-Presse Yasuyoshi Chiba said: “The place was a total blackout. Then, unexpectedly, people started clapping hands in the dark. People held...
IRAN-USA: The Sound and the Fury – An outrage too far?
The following is part of William Dowell's regular Tom's Paine column. Global Geneva makes its content available for free in the public interest. If you like our...
María de Buenos Aires, un opéra-tango époustouflant
EDITION FRANCAISE: Né à la fin du XIXe siècle dans la région du Rio de la Plata, à l’embouchure de l’Océan Atlantique qui sépare l’Argentine de l’Uruguay, le tango résumait en musique...
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...
The Last Great Coral Reef Wilderness
In the middle of the Indian Ocean lies the Chagos Archipelago, a collection of atolls and submerged banks where the reefs have been largely undisturbed by humans for the last 50 years....
Swiss Chalet kitsch, what it means, and how to escape it
Explore real Swiss rural life at Ballenberg Erschmatt, Valais. Not all wooden buildings are chalets....
Swiss Journeys: Ticino, a breath of the Mediterranean in Switzerland (Part 1)
The coronavirus pandemic and the fear of a new cross-border lockdown have convinced many living in Switzerland to head south to the Ticino, the country’s only Italian-speaking canton,...
Letter from Florida: Development versus environment
A lone mangrove cluster clings to survival on the Indian River Lagoon in Edgewater, Florida, on Maryann Thorhallsson’s property. After years of struggling to preserve a stretch of the idyllic waterway in East Central...
Chappatte plonge ‘Au cœur 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...
Afghanistan’s Taliban still holding western detainees
Peter Jouvenal (right with camera) while reporting during the Soviet-Afghan war. (Photo: Ed Gorman) There is still no news about the possibility of release of the remaining westerners...
Comment contrôler les robots tueurs ?
Jean-MarcRickli, Directeur des risques globaux et de la résilience au Centre de Politique de Sécurité (GCSP) sis dans la Cité de Calvin posait une question essentielle : Ces armes sont-elles pourvues d’une capacité d’apprentissage...
Focus on Afghanistan: The “Tali-Bans’ of the past: waiting for the new decrees.
The first edition of the Crosslines Essential Field Guide to Afghanistan, which was published in 1998 during the height of the first Taliban era (1996-2001), quickly became known as the “Taliban edition.”...
On meeting Bin Laden
Any individual who has a story to tell about a personal encounter with the good, the bad or the nasty (living or dead) is welcome to contribute to ENCOUNTERS.
The Arabi manned their own trenches...
Focus on Afghanistan: What did you expect?
Agent Provocateur is Global Insights op-ed column. America entered Afghanistan in November 2001 to avenge the 9/11 attacks on the United States. However, there was never any...
SWISS JOURNEYS: Zurich, troisième ville au monde où il fait bon vivre
EDITION FRANCAISE: Les beaux jours, s’ils sont ensoleillés, sont propices à une ballade au bord du lac avec vue sur les Alpes pour apprécier l’art de vivre à la zurichoise. Avant de...
OPINION – Brexit: A dark threat to peace and security in Europe
(Photo: Scene from the 1959 German anti-war film Die Brücke)
While critics may deride the British government’s surge into exiting the European Union as an act of self-mutilation and disregard for economic opportunity, there is...
Biden: A need to separate humanitarian aid from geopolitical aspirations
Donald J. Trump spent three years doing everything in his power as President to slash billions from foreign aid. He finally argued that the money spent on Congress’s pandemic relief bill was...
France’s Nicolas Hulot: Placing the Titanic Syndrome in the forefront
“I didn’t start out as an ecologist,” Nicolas Hulot says, “I became one.” Still boyish and exuberant, with an ever-engaging smile at 62, Hulot has definitely made up for lost time. He is single handedly...
The Capital of Civilization: Brexit, populism and the 150th anniversary of the Siege of...
It may be no surprise if the 150th anniversary of the Prussian army’s descent on Paris with the largest siege force ever assembled draws few headlines. The seeds of woe it planted -- a...
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,...
Abdul Haq: the Afghan commander who could have led to peace
FOCUS on Afghanistan: 40 years of war. This is part of a special Global Geneva series on Afghanistan to be published in the November, 2018 - January 2019 print and e-edition.
I had called Abdul Haq from Washington D.C....
Zermatt’s Valais rival? peaceful Turtmanntal
But it's almost as if the Swiss want to keep it secret The famous glacier
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...
Chappatte and the stifling of graphic satire – 2020 Geneva Foundation Laureate
UPDATED 21 September, 2020. As part of Global Geneva’s regular profiling of cartoonists collaborating with the Geneva-based Cartooning for Peace Foundation, we examine the position of Patrick Chappatte, a Lebanese-Swiss, who, amongst other papers...
Citizens and Scientists Battle Invasive Species
Florida is paying bounty hunters for the third year in a row to capture thousands of Burmese Pythons that have overrun the Everglades, a vast area of subtropical wetlands, lakes and rivers, stretching from...
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...
Leonard Cohen – That’s how the light gets in
For millions of people around the world the shock of the US election results were enormously magnified by news of the death of Leonard Cohen, 82, a singer poet icon who had long sung...
Notes from Oregon: At the centre of the fire storm
September 11, 2020 As I sit down to write this, it feels like I’m writing a journal in a movie about Mars. A reddish-orange hue shines through my tightly...
Pandemics, climate change and UN reform
These past few months of COVID-19 have proven both brutal and sobering. But the lessons are clear. The threat of a global pandemic has been with us...
Letter from Geneva and France: Brexit’s betrayal of young people
One only need arrive at Geneva airport, which serves Swiss, French, and Italian mountain resorts, to witness the humiliating degradation of British travellers. It’s particularly galling on Saturdays when the flights come...
Freelance journalists: Reporting from the frontlines – and beyond.
The Rory Peck Trust, a Global Geneva media partner, recently held its 2019 Awards in London. Click here for more information.
cover image © Associated press. Photo by Felipe Dana.
At the height of the Balkans war in...
International Geneva: Already a leader in the next Industrial Revolution
The World Economic Forum's Klaus Schwab calls it the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It's the one that will do away with middle-class and professional jobs as we know them. It has been described as a...
Will the integrity of the U.S. supreme court die with Ginsburg?
Both passions clearly surpassed any thoughts of self-interest or personal promotion. Her life story presents an especially sharp contrast to the narcissism of Donald Trump, who has made a toxic mixture of...
Russia’s politically-appointed UN chief in Geneva: Silent on Putin’s war
Editorial See update below As pointed out by veteran journalist Bill Dowell in his recent Global Insights article, Valovaya, a Russian political appointee, has been...
Navalny’s Gambit: Can the imprisoned opposition leader have a role in Russia?
Editor's Note: Alexei Navalny, who returned to Russia from Germany in late January 2021 was jailed for three and a half years by a Russian court for ostensibly violating the terms...
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)
Maurizio Serra perce le mystère Mussolini
ÉDITION FRANÇAISE: L’histoire ne se répète pas mais elle autorise des parallèles, écrit Maurizio Serra dans une note de bas de page de son livre Le mystère Mussolini (paru en 2021 chez...
China’s communist party destroying freedom of expression in Hong Kong…A ruthless reminder of Beijing’s...
Cartoon by contributing editor Jeff Danziger and a member of Cartooning for Peace, a Global Geneva partner.
Honouring Human Rights Defenders: Why bother?
As a young foreign correspondent during the late 1970s and a Fellow of the Paris-based Journalists in Europe programme inviting 25 journalists every year to report key issues - I travelled to...
Korea’s ‘Tiananmen’ and world memory
This article forms part of our series on cultural and historical repression around the world, and the challenge it poses to the international community.
“Young people sacrificed themselves for change in society, for democracy, for...
2021 Rory Peck Awards: Recognizing the best of freelance reporting and filmmaking
The standard of freelance acquired news has become so penetrative and informative that the big broadcasting brands would surely collapse without stars like Solan Kolli who won the news award, Brent E....
Afghanistan: the abandonment of a nation
In autumn 2001, having returned from Afghanistan just prior to the 9 September assassination by Al Qaeda of northern Afghan resistance commander Ahmed Shah Massoud and before its World Trade Center attacks,...
Switzerland’s Prisoners of War during two world wars and beyond.
Internment in Switzerland During World
War One is my second book relating to Swiss history.
My first, Healthy Living in the Alps, was about the search for a cure
from TB and the subsequent development...
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...
Retour gagnant à Genève du Refugee Food Festival
ÉDITION FRANÇAISE: La musique adoucit les meurs. L’amour passe par l’estomac. Et la cuisine réjouit les cœurs. Surtout lorsque des restaurateurs locaux partagent leurs fourneaux avec des cuisiniers réfugiés pour concocter des...
