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In this episode of Inside Geneva,exteal link we go behind the scenes at the world's most important gathering on human rights, now underway in Geneva.It's the UN Human Rights Council, where...

Most people in Switzerland would support a ban on lethal autonomous weapons systems, for example, drones that can shoot people.A poll commissioned by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots showed that 72%...

Is this the end of the Marlboro cigarette? Philip Morris Inteational says it will stop selling cigarettes at some point in the future as it shifts to smoke-free alteatives. But, how soon is st...

The Foundation was designed over a period of several years by different architects. (Keystone) Rousseau, Hesse, Highsmith, Mann – fabled, yes, but did any of them ever write a book in a treehouse? A new centre for literature is offering global writers the opportunity to do just this. Arriving in the small Swiss town of Montricher, surrounded by farmland and rows of vines, you might wonder ab...

A hiker is confronted with a closed trail near an area affected by a rock slide in canton Valais, Switzerland (Keystone) How are Swiss mountainxa0trails kept safe in an era of landslides like the one that struck the town of Bondo last week, killing eight hikers? Requirements for Switzerland’s 65,000-kilometre (40,389-mile) network of hiking trails are laid out by the govement, which stipulat...

The idyllic communes Arth-Goldau in canton Schwyz (RDB) Nestled between deep blue Lake Zug, majestic Mount Rigi and the greenery of farmland and forests, the villages of Goldau, Oberarth and Arth in canton Schwyz look typically Swiss. Yet their citizens have a hybrid form of democracy that is almost unique within Switzerland. Rather than voting with a show of hands, the archetype of democracy and method used in many of the nation’s over 2,350 municipalities, the people here vote by secret ba...

(swissinfo.ch) What does it take to run the best restaurant in the world? We go inside the Hôtel de Ville in Crissier. The restaurant was named number one in the world by La Liste, a new ranking by the French foreign ministry. When chef Benoît Violier committed suicide earlier this year, his second-in-command and old friend Franck Giovannini had to step into his shoes. He's an anomaly in this high pressure profession. Let's block ads! بخوانید...