Hi there, this is Paula. On his last day in office, UNRWA’s chief Philippe Lazzarini told Geneva Solutions that the agency – created only as a temporary stop-gap measure 80 years ago – should be involved in helping Palestinians find a political solution.
More women are needed in high-level peacemaking efforts, and a Geneva-based NGO is partnering with an AI firm to advance malaria drug development. |
The commissioner general of the UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, addresses the United Nations Security Council meeting at UN headquarters 17 April 2024. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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🎧Inside Geneva: women in peace.
Women are missing from current high-level politics and from high-level peacemaking. However, this is only the visible part, says Geneva Graduate Institute professor Sara Hellmüller. She stresses the key involvement of women in everyday peacemaking processes in different conflict contexts.
Swissinfo (EN)
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🤖New open source AI platform aims to accelerate malaria drug discovery.
Medicines for Malaria Venture, a Geneva-based nonprofit, has partnered with deepmirror, an AI software company, to create a new open-access platform for scientists developing new drugs to fight the parasitic disease.
Health Policy Watch (EN)
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🧀Swiss want to inscribe Alpine foodstuffs on Unesco list.
Switzerland, in collaboration with Italy, France and Slovenia, have applied for knowledge, practices and techniques relating to food in the mountain regions of the Alps such as cheese-making to be safeguarded as intangible cultural heritage.
Swissinfo (EN)
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☄️‘This was the real thing’: Meet the woman who alerts the world when an asteroid could hit.
Aarti Holla-Maini, director of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs, is tasked with sounding the alarm if a significantly large asteroid is on a possible collision course with Earth. A year ago, she thought the moment had come.
The Guardian (EN)
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