Good morning, this is Kasmira. Where conflicts prevail, “animals can build bridges”, says NGO worker Marion Lombard in a moving account of her life’s work saving animals caught in the crossfires of war.
Plus, a look at CERN’s new state-of-the-art campus dedicated to science education and the City of Geneva deliberates coming to the aid of the ICRC. |
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Amir Khalil, a veterinarian with Four Paws International, feeds Kavaan, Pakistan's only Asian elephant, at the Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad on 11 November 2020 before travelling to a sanctuary in Cambodia. (Keystone/AFP/Aamir Qureshi)
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🐘 War spares no person or creature.
Marion Lombard knows this better than anyone. For five years, she travelled with the NGO Four Paws through conflict zones, from Gaza to Lebanon, Pakistan, Sudan and Iraq, to rescue wild animals, mostly from zoos barely scraping by.
From saving lions in the Gaza Strip to evacuating an elephant from Pakistan by military plane, the Frenchwoman, who now works for the foundation Switzerland for the UNHCR, recounts some of her most memorable experiences and the ordeal of focusing solely on animals in the midst of such complicated human contexts in an interview with Le Temps translated by Geneva Solutions.
Read the full story on Geneva Solutions
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Here's what else is happening
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💸 City of Geneva wants to release CHF 4 million for the ICRC.
The administrative council has submitted a proposal to its decision-making body to come to the aid of the organisation, which is facing financial difficulties.
RTS (FR)
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🔬Behind the scenes at Renzo Piano’s CERN Science Gateway.
Opening on 8 October, the CERN’s new campus, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, will be dedicated to learning and outreach and aims to inspire younger generations to pursue careers in science.
Wallpaper (EN)
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🏭 UN chief excludes top polluters from climate summit.
António Guterres, explicitly excluded the world’s five largest emitters of greenhouse gases – China, the US, Russia, India and Japan – from his Climate Ambition Summit at the General Assembly.
Health Policy Watch (EN)
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🎓The University of Geneva will soon have its first female head.
Two women, professors Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo and Audrey Leuba, are in the running to replace the university’s outgoing rector Yves Flückiger.
Tribune de Genève (paywall) (FR)
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💥UN expert urges US not to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions.
In a letter published Wednesday, special rapporteur Alice Jill Edwards warned these could harm civilians even decades after the end of the conflict there. Reuters
Reuters (EN)
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