Hi there, this is Michelle. AI is making it easier for cybercriminals – and governments – to target NGOs, and the risk is only growing with the roll-out of more advanced models capable of quickly detecting and exploiting vulnerabilities. Geneva-based cyber expert Stéphane Duguin tells me why donors should care if they don’t want their money to end up in the hands of criminals.

The right to a healthy environment was inked in Geneva five years ago at the Human Rights Council. Two climate lawyers urge Europe to develop its own treaty to back it.

And one of the frontrunners in the race to lead the UN hits back at US media commentary.

Michelle Langrand

07.10.2026

On our radar

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Stéphane Duguin, CEO of Protect.ngo, at an event on cybersecurity at a World Economic Forum conference in Geneva, 13 November 2024 in Geneva. (World Economic Forum/ Chris Heeney)

Cyber expert Stéphane Duguin: International Geneva ill-equipped for AI-supercharged cyberthreats. As civil society faces AI-powered cyberthreats, NGOs are asking donors to help the sector prepare. Geneva-based cyber expert Stéphane Duguin warns that the window is rapidly closing.

Geneva Solutions (EN)

Here's what else is happening

⚛︎Opponents of Cern collider call for a cantonal vote. They say Bern’s approval of the project denied Genevans of their democratic rights.
RTS (FR)
🦠Russia tells WHO there are no plague cases in Siberian city. Authorities also said they had identified people who had been in contact with a deceased lab worker who had been employed at a plague research institute.
Reuters (EN)
🗳️Exclusive: Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett responds to critics: Judge diplomats on their countries’ words and there will be no diplomats left. Second in the race so far to lead the UN, the Guyanese addresses reports and opinion articles in the American media critical of her past positions.
Envoy Magazine (EN)
🦠How Trump's America First policy hit the Ebola response in Congo. The US approach to Ebola has changed drastically since the 2014 West Africa epidemic under the Obama administration, and is now largely concentrated on keeping the virus out of the country.
Reuters (EN)

What they think

❝Five years on, it’s time for Europe to recognise the right to a healthy environment. The Council of Europe remains the only one of the three regional human rights systems that has not yet explicitly recognised the right in a binding instrument. As climate and environmental problems intensify, now is the time to close that gap, write Francesca Mingrone and Sébastien Duyck, lawyers at the Center for International Environmental Law.

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