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• 🚦Foundation greenlights nine projects for international Geneva. The projects selected will each receive between CHF 267,000 and CHF 4.8 million, said Olivier Coutau, the secretary general of the Foundation for Adaptation of International Geneva (FAGI), with the total amounting to CHF 13.5m.
  Keystone-SDA via PME (FR)
• 🎓UN experts alarmed by criminal sanctions after Gaza protest at Swiss university. ETH Zurich has pressed charges for trespassing against students who protested against its partnerships with Israeli institutions – a move denounced by 10 UN experts, who said publicly-funded research should not contribute to war crimes.
  Swissinfo (EN)
• 💧UN envoy: ‘Water must be put at the top of the political agenda’. Retno Marsudi, the UN secretary-general’s first special envoy on water, warns that water risks are escalating faster than political responses and that modernising ageing water infrastructure should be among the key areas of focus for governments.
  Swissinfo (EN)
• 🔥Opinion: President Trump is sending the UN to hell. The collective will to save the UN and the international rule of law needs to override the US president’s whim to destroy them, writes Mona Ali Khalil, an international lawyer and a former senior legal officer at the UN.
  PassBlue (EN)
• 🛳️UN fears hundreds of migrants missing or dead in Mediterranean shipwrecks since start of 2026. The International Organization for Migration said three shipwrecks have been reported in the last 10 days, with preliminary information suggesting that hundreds of people may be missing at sea or feared dead.
  France24 (EN)
• 🇮🇷Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll? Testimonies from eyewitnesses together with data and accounts from morgues and graveyards across the country reveal the vast scale of violence inflicted on Iranians during the state’s crackdown.
  The Guardian (EN)