The Council of Europe remains the only one of the three regional human rights systems that has not yet explicitly recognised the right in a binding instrument.  As climate and environmental problems ...

UN staff representatives say visa refusals are rising as contracts become shorter and less secure. But French immigration lawyers point instead to tougher migration controls and a visa system that is ...

The proliferation of mammoth, resource-intensive data centres needed to power the artificial intelligence frenzy is putting ...

Almost two years after Trump’s axing of aid, compounded by other donor cuts, Swiss authorities say the impact on the workforce in international Geneva is less than feared. But staff describe a grim ...

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 ...

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 ...

A tide of anti-gay laws and rhetoric is sweeping across regions, putting already stigmatised communities at greater risk. In ...

Olivia Ndubuisi is a multimedia journalist who has a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of ...

As Ebola continues to spread in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the burning question at recent UN pandemic ...

Geneva-based senior attorney in the climate and energy programme at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and ...

As Geneva’s annual sustainable finance summit prepares to open its doors on Tuesday, its co-founder, Swiss banker Patrick ...

The UN human rights architecture is being hollowed out from within and carefully prepared for capture. Nobody should be ...