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Good morning, this is Kasmira. As armed groups gain increasing control over swathes of civilian populations, often with little regard for humanitarian law, trying to win them over with dialogue remains essential – especially when state actors fail to set the example – as the boss of the NGO Geneva Call tells me.

And over at the Palais des Nations, the Human Rights Council’s 60th session opened under the strain of financial pressures and geopolitical problems.

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Kasmira Jefford

10.09.2025


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Geneva Call director general Alain Délétroz, speaking at the organisation’s 25th anniversary at Palais Eynard, in Geneva, on 4 September 2025. (Geneva Call)

‘A scandal’: Geneva Call boss Alain Délétroz slams states sidelining humanitarian law. The war in Gaza and other major hostilities where states are disregarding the laws of war are prompting armed groups to follow their example, warns Alain Délétroz, the head of Geneva Call, as the humanitarian NGO marked its 25th anniversary last week.

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