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Amid soaring military spending and intensifying conflicts, Nathalie Chuard, the head of @dcafgeneva.bsky.social, warns that countries, from Europe to the Middle East, cannot militarise their way to stability and must invest in human security.
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Washington’s alignment with Moscow in a low-profile UN vote underscores its policy shift as US officials move to broker a deal to end the war in Ukraine on Russia's terms.
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Amid a surge in conflicts, rising IHL violations and dwindling resources, @icrc.org president Mirjana Spoljaric lays out the challenges the organisation faces, as it cuts a further 2,900 jobs on top of the 4,500 lost in 2023. ✍️Stéphane Bussard for @letemps.ch
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‘She was laying in the road, waiting for a car to run her over’: Inside Gaza's silent hellscape

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza may have eased, but Palestinians continue to die of hunger, dehydration, disease, cold and despair. Laureline Lasserre, who travelled across the enclave for @msf.fr, describes an ever‑tightening hellscape.

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By hosting talks between Ukrainian, US and European officials on a peace plan for Ukraine, partly sketched by the Russian Kirill Dmitriev, Switzerland treads a fine line between pushing for peace and defending the international legal order it so often champions.
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Oversight clashes and resignation threats: Inside a stormy Aarhus Convention meeting

Near-rebellion and last-minute manoeuvres marked a stormy meeting of the Aarhus Convention, putting to the test a treaty designed to protect environmental defenders.

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Unicef to leave Geneva lakeside for Rome’s Colosseum - Geneva Solutions

Geneva, the longtime epicentre of humanitarian aid, peacemaking and diplomacy, is feeling the tremors of yet another wave of relocations and job cuts, from the UN children’s agency to the World Health Organization to Gavi.

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Cop30: Indigenous groups say big forest funds don’t cut it for them

The UN’s first Amazonian climate conference has put a spotlight on primary rainforests and the need to support their preservation. But Indigenous groups have their own proposals.

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Three years after states pledged to curb bombing in urban areas, what’s next? - Geneva Solutions

Three years after its adoption in Dublin, as countries meet in the Costa Rican capital of San José, humanitarians and human rights campaigners urge states to act on an international commitment to protect civilians from devastating attacks in built-up areas.

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❝Russia is crushing labour rights in occupied Ukraine – the ILO must go beyond declarations

Forced labour of children, targeted attacks on workers and seized unions – Russia’s abuses are well-documented and known by the @ilo.org. It must now decide whether to live up to its mission or keep looking away from Ukraine, write Vasyl Andreyev & Luca Cirigliano, ILO Governing Body union members.

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International norms and fried eggs: David Harland on the new realities of stopping wars - Geneva Solutions

New forms of diplomacy are emerging to respond to a world where the rules-based system of the last 80 years, enshrined in the UN charter, is crumbling, says David Harland the director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue.

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Aisha, now in Port Sudan, has no news of her aunt and nephew since El Fasher fell. Each day, she checks WhatsApp lists of survivors and waits for a brief Starlink call from a relative. Like many, she fears for those left behind.
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As the Human Rights Council prepares to judge grave violations in Sudan, some of its own members – responsible for abuses themselves – are evading accountability, hurting the UN body’s credibility, writes Sigrid Lipott, UN adviser to @civicusalliance.bsky.social.
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As the Human Rights Council hold an emergency debate on El Fasher, @monarishmawi.bsky.social, UN-backed expert documenting Sudan’s war, explains the scale and nature of the atrocities she says could’ve been averted.
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Pekka Haavisto, Finland's former foreign minister and a seasoned peace mediator, believes pragmatic diplomacy can put the UN refugee agency back on track as he bids to become its future leader.
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