by Johann Aeschlimann | Jul 6, 2026 | Swiss, United Nations
In some areas, diplomacy is sidelined because the big powers are at loggerheads. Others fade away because no one is interested any longer. One of these cases is the situation of human rights and the extreme discrimination of women in Afghanistan – a «cooperating...
by Johann Aeschlimann | Feb 8, 2024 | United Nations
Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Nordkorea, Sahel: The UN Security Council is at loggerheads, and for a member like Switzerland there is not a lot of space to get anything moving. Richard Gowan, the UN expert of International Crisis Group in New York has no hope that in 2024...
by Johann Aeschlimann | May 20, 2023 | United Nations
This month of May, Switzerland holds the presidency of the UN Security Council. I am spending time trying to follow the goings-on in New York, observing and asking questions to people in the know. I had the chance to talk to Richard Gowan of the International Crisis...
