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International governance is often discussed in fora designated by cryptic letters. The ‘Gs’ have referred to the Group of 8 (G8), the Group of 7 (G7), the Group of 2 (G2) and now the Group ...
Pessimism seems to have spread across the globe. With high rates of youth unemployment, unfulfilled promises in the wake of the reformist zeal of the Arab Spring, and ongoing financial and economic crisis, leaders and ...
The recent election to parliament of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her party heralds a new dawn for this struggling South East Asian nation, now officially known as Myanmar. The Nobel laureate ...
Heads are rolling - and the City of London coined the name of this revolution: “the shareholder spring.” It is threatening CEOs of major European companies. After the much discussed resignation of Aviva's CEO, Andrew ...
François Hollande has just been elected president of France: the first socialist president since François Mitterrand (1981-1995). The outcome was narrower than polls had predicted: 51.7 percent for the winner and 49 ...
Afghanistan has been a region of continuous conflict for the past 30 years. Generations have grown up not knowing the meaning of a peaceful society. With 42% of the population younger than 15 years of ...
Dear Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, In November of 2011, the Human Rights Foundation invited Dr. Chee Soon Juan - one of your well-known critics and one of Singapore's most visible opposition leaders - to speak ...
For many years journalist Natalie Nougayrède has reported from Russia to the French newspaper, Le Monde. Nougayrède holds freedom of expression close to her heart, all the more as she has experienced living ...
At a time when most nations are trying to figure out how to stop Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad from killing his own people in a year-long struggle to stay in power, the Venezuelan government is ...
China has faced a lot of criticism about its new high-speed rail service, especially after a train derailed in July 2010, killing 40 and injuring 192. But a new World Bank study found that the ...
Are you happy? While this may sound like a frivolous question, in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and increasingly around the world, happiness is serious business. Last month for the first time ever, the United ...
Photo (from left to right) Rufus Yerxa, WTO; Pierre Maudet, Mayor of Geneva; Peter Schatzer, IOM; Winston Griffin, P&G; debate moderator Professor Elizabeth Prügl from The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies ...
In two very different parts of the world, pro-democracy election victories gave activists hope that peaceful political transitions and the acceptance of opposition candidates into military parliaments are a very real possibility. On March 25 ...
What completely preventable disease can kill someone in a matter of hours through dehydration and is caused by contaminated water and food? The answer? Cholera. And it’ is ravaging the Caribbean nation of Haiti as ...
In an experiment conducted in Geneva (April 5), European nuclear research agency CERN smashed two high-power proton beams in a collision that produced energy reaching 8 trillion electro volts (TeV) — the most powerful on record ...
The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SSR) has announced a wide review of all of its internet platforms, radio and television stations across Switzerland. The oldest English language radio with national broadcasting, World Radio Switzerland (WRS), finds ...
French energy company Total detected (30 March) the source of gas leaking from a platform in the North Sea, which has caused fears of subsequent explosions and impacted significantly upon the organization’s market value ...
Read the latest features on the 2012 Geneva Health Forum here. It’s becoming an all too familiar notion: tens of thousands of people die, daily, from chronic diseases in low- and middle-income countries. The ...
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