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 ...

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

Francesca Mingrone is a Geneva-based senior attorney in the climate and energy programme at the Center for International ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Victor Madrigal-Borloz is a human rights lawyer and trustee of the UN Voluntary Fund for Torture Victims, set up in 1981 and ...

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

Anna Rosalie Greipl is a postdoctoral researcher at the Global Studies Institute at the University of Geneva. Her research ...