The “fog of war”, “special operation”, a ministry of “war” replacing the ministry of “defense”: words speak volumes – and ...

Reporting to the Human Rights Council this week on the Kremlin’s widening crackdown on Russian critics overseas, Maria ...

Climate change and population growth have added urgency to a deadly legacy that has haunted the Pacific for 80 years. The Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, which brought experts ...

As the boundaries between war and peace blur and rapid advances in artificial intelligence give way to new “narrative wars”, ...

Competition for scarce resources, widening inequalities, mounting demographic pressures – as technological weapons become increasingly accessible, the world is growing ever more dangerous, writes ...

Nations will gather in Laos this week to assess progress on a convention banning cluster munitions, just as new figures show ...

The ongoing search for the next leader of the United Nations continues after a third straw poll failed to yield a candidate ...

Freshly appointed by the Human Rights Council to monitor the human rights impacts of hazardous substances and waste, ecotoxicologist Bethanie Carney Almroth calls on states to prevent chemical ...

A 48-page comic book, titled Critical Code, aims to educate students about the importance of multilateral cooperation. It has been distributed in Geneva’s secondary schools and across 15 other Swiss ...

It’s that time of year again when world leaders descend on New York for the United Nations’ annual general assembly. In this special podcast episode, Dulcie Leimbach, editor-in-chief of PassBlue, and ...

Some 180 km north of the Chilean capital of Santiago, lush green rows of perfectly aligned trees cover the semi-arid hills of Petorca, Valparaíso. The kilometres-wide fields of knobbly, blackish Hass ...

After years in the making, the digital emblem is now ready to be rolled out in the field. But its success is not guaranteed and will depend in part on how hackers behave. Four years ago, the ...