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Where are the women at the top of the UN? The United Nations is 75 years old this year, and it has had nine secretaries general. But not one of them has been a woman. Back in 2016 when candidates to succeed Ban Ki Moon were throwing their hats into the ring, there was a real feeling that the right moment might finally have come to have a woman at the top of the UN. This content was published on April 20, 2021 - 16:00 April 20, 2021 - 16:00 Imogen Foulkes In a voting process that was more transparent and more democratic than any previous contest for the post of secretary general, a number of ...

Genocide: why we apply the term sparingly It is regarded as the worst of all crimes, but what constitutes genocide? This content was published on April 6, 2021 - 10:00 April 6, 2021 - 10:00 Imogen Foulkes How does it differ from crimes against humanity? How are the atrocities of 1970’s Cambodia different from 1990’s Rwanda? What about Myanmar, or Xinjiang in China? Why have so few people ever been convicted of genocide? And why do human rights groups themselves use the term so carefully? In this episode host Imogen Foulkes puts those questions to Paola Gaeta, Professor of International L...

When do large-scale killings constitute genocide? The term genocide has been in the news recently, in particular in connection with China’s treatment of its ethnic Uighur population. But as Imogen Foulkes writes, the restrictive definition of the word makes applying the term anything but easy. This content was published on April 6, 2021 - 15:00 April 6, 2021 - 15:00 Imogen Foulkes We’ve just come to the end of another lengthy session of the UN Human Rights Council, at which some very grave human rights situations were addressed: Myanmar, South Sudan, Syria, North Korea, Belarus…and muc...

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6 Ce billet est signé par un blogueur de la plateforme de Blogs en partenariat avec la Tribune de Genève et n’engage pas la rédaction. Le conseiller d'Etat genevois Pierre Maudet arrive au Palais de Justice pour son procès. Pierre Albouy Newspapers in France have scrupulously covered the trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy who was found guilty of corruption and influence-peddling by a court in Paris and sentenced to prison. The United States press is continually reporting on former President Donald Trump’s legal difficulties, which include calls to try to overturn the re...