Jérôme Bonnafont, French ambassador to the UN in Geneva, 11 March 2025. (Le Temps/Nora Teylouni)

🇫🇷Jérôme Bonnafont: The multilateral system has benefited from being in Geneva. The French diplomat has spent three and a half years within Geneva's multilateral ecosystem. As he prepares to take up a new role as ambassador to the UN in New York, he underscores that Geneva must prepare for a future with a significantly reduced US presence.

🏆Geneva human rights film fest rewards 12 ‘impactful’ productions. Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Ami’s documentary, Les Filles du Nil, won one of the top prizes for its “striking portraits of five Egyptian women seeking emancipation in a traditional and patriarchal society”.

📉Exclusive: UNAids staff anxious as restructuring looms amid aid cuts. Management told a town hall meeting that savings plans would be completed in the next two months, ready to kick off by June.

🇲🇲A UN rights expert blasts the impact of US aid cuts on Myanmar. The Human Rights Council-backed expert, Tom Andrews, said he would urge its 47 member states to issue a “declaration of conscience against this unfolding disaster”.

🚑Médecins Sans Frontières says vehicle shot at during hospital evacuation in Haiti. Staff suffered minor injuries in an incident the medical charity described as the intentional opening of fire on four of its vehicles amid a spike in violence.