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3 days ago | genevasolutions.news | Kasmira Jefford

Countries hit by Trump's impending “reciprocal” tariffs face a dilemma – between cutting bilateral deals or standing firm and saving the multilateral trading system. The World Trade Organization (WTO) quietly marked a major anniversary on 10 April. Behind closed doors, trade representatives, business leaders and government officials from its 166 member states gathered to celebrate 30 years since the global trade body came into existence in January 1995.

1 week ago | genevasolutions.news | Michelle Langrand

World Health Organization member states have agreed on a plan to prevent, prepare for and respond to future global health crises – amid the glaring absence of the United States. At 3 am on Wednesday, a three-year-long, painstaking marathon of deliberations finally reached a joyful conclusion. Negotiators at the World Health Organization (WHO) could finally catch their breath as they finalised a draft agreement on how to tackle future pandemics.

1 week ago | genevasolutions.news | Paula Dupraz-Dobias

As the US government veers away from its engagements with multilateral organisations and redefines rights and social protection at home, Azerbaijan is one of several authoritarian governments taking note, to set new limits on impunity. In the months since US president Donald Trump was inaugurated, Baku has joined a number of governments in ramping up a crackdown that it had already initiated on critics and shunning international organisations.

1 week ago | genevasolutions.news | Michelle Langrand

Sania Nishtar, head of Gavi, is still holding out hope that the US will resume support as the organisation that helps vaccinate millions of people in poor nations worldwide gears up for a replenishment round in June amid an arid season for funding. Gavi, the Vaccine alliance, is still waiting for a definitive response from the US on whether they will discontinue support, chief executive officer, Sania Nishtar, told reporters in Geneva on Friday.

2 weeks ago | genevasolutions.news | Kasmira Jefford

The gaping budgetary hole left by the United States will be near impossible for other donors to international Geneva to fill, but it will create space for new alliances, says the director of the Fondation pour Genève. Since US president Donald Trump’s decision in January to bring foreign assistance to a screeching halt, international organisations and NGOs in Geneva have been left scrambling to digest the following onslaught of decisions and the trail of devastation left in its wake.