Good morning, this is Kasmira. Twenty years since the golden age in global health, when a surge in funding and new collaborations between public and private sector actors ushered in a new breed of partnerships and organisations, many of those are now being forced back to the drawing board.
Among them, three Geneva-based non-profits revealed this week how they plan to join forces to stay one step ahead amid mounting global headwinds. |
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A relative holds a saline packet as a man receives treatment for dengue fever at Mugda Medical College and Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 26 September 2024. (Keystone/EPA/Monirul Alam)
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The Drugs and Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi), the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) and the GARDP Foundation, announced plans on Monday to work more closely together as part of efforts to stay ahead of a rapidly shifting environment.
DNDi’s executive director, Luis Pizarro, said shrinking aid budgets, climate change, increasing conflicts and demographic shifts were adding urgency to adapt and be able to continue to protect people from deadly diseases.
“International solidarity is being completely reshaped and put under stress,” the Chilean doctor who led medical projects in West and Central Africa for several years before taking the helm in 2022, told Geneva Solutions.
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Guests stage a human rights protest on the red carpet prior the opening ceremony of the 76th Berlin International Film Festival, in Berlin, Germany, 12 February 2026. (Keystone/EPA/Fabian Sommer)
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Working altogether to defend rights.
As human rights face rising threats from authoritarianism, climate change and tech, to name a few, UN rights chief Volker Türk announced on Thursday the launch of a global rights alliance, to include individuals, cities, rights groups and academia, working together in their defense.
Just days before the Human Rights Council begins, diplomats joined representatives from different sectors for the kick-off of the Global Alliance for Human Rights. Citing US rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt, Geneva’s mayor Christina Kitsos said that human rights begin in the smallest communities of individuals seeking justice and opportunity.
“We are living through a paradoxical moment,” she said. “Never before have human rights been so codified and yet never have they seemed so fragile”.
Camila Asano, executive director of rights organisation Conectas, welcomed the opportunity for rights defenders to connect and defend rights. “We are at a tipping point,” she warned. “We are in a process of consolidation of authoritarianism.
Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 2028, members of the alliance, including Emilia Saiz Carrancedo, executive director of United Cities and Local Governments, said they hoped that the number of human rights cities rise from just over 100 to reach 1000 over the next two years.
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