Geneva, ICRC headquarters. (ICRC/Dorothée Baumann)

✂️ ICRC to cut 270 job cuts in Geneva. The 160-year-old humanitarian organisation has announced a first wave of redundancies at its headquarters as it grapples with a major funding shortfall that will see it cut a total of around 1,500 jobs.

💭Opinion: Swiss diplomacy at a historic crossroads. Troubled by ambiguous relations with the EU and weakened on the international stage, Switzerland would benefit from capitalising on other forms of diplomacy, writes diplomat Theodor Winkler in his latest book, reviewed by François Nordmann.

🚢UN rights chief criticises Russia for quitting Black Sea grain deal. Opening the 54th session of the Human Rights Council, Volker Türk blamed the hike in food prices on Moscow exiting the export deal and attacking Ukrainian ports.

🛢️UN rights chief: climate change 'dystopian future already here'. Türk also drew attention to humanitarian crises triggered by climate change. He called for those responsible for wrecking the environment to be held to account and for ecocide to be recognised as an international crime. Voice of America

🌊Migration crisis is worsening, SOS Méditerranée warns. Europe is on track to receive over one million asylum requests by the end of the year, approaching record numbers seen in 2015 and 2016 at the height of the war in Syria – it is still the top driver for applications in Europe.