High Commissioner for the Human Rights Council Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein delivered a hard-hitting speech this morning. Rheal leBlanc explains what he said at the opening of this Human Rights Council.

Today and tomorrow, the united nations special envoy for Syria will be meeting with senior officials from Iran, Russia and Turkey in Geneva to discuss how to move forward with a constitutional commission for Syria.

The UK mission will inaugurate a unique exhibition in the Ariana Park of a huge structure called the Luminarium. It will be dedicated to promoting the importance of girls’ education and stay in Geneva for 2 days only, starting today.

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The Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny in Geneva, hold over 150,000 titles in their possession, and manage to display a small number of the extraordinary treasures, like first editions of Shakespeare, Milton, Dante as well as an Egyptian "Book of the Dead" in their permanet exhbition. Lucky for us gardeners, the Fondation, this summer, are showing a superb collection of books related to gardens and gardening in their new show "Des Jardins et des livres" ("Books and gardens") in their temporary exhibition. Professor Jacques Berchtold, the Director, guides us round in this week's show. Fore more details go to http://fondationbodmer.ch/expositions-temporaires/

Currently ranking at number 22 out of 49 European countries, you'd think that Switzerland is fairly forward in terms of gay rights, but there's still a long way to go for equality.

Did you know that, in registering a same-sex partnership, the two individuals actually sign away certain rights that they would have had as single people; namely adoption rights or rights to reproductive medicine.

Dario talks us through gay rights in Switzerland.

Swiss Up! - The Swiss firms that like a low profile by WRS

Swiss Up! - The biggest strike in Swiss history by WRS

On this week’s edition of Learn More, Sean Power, Director General of the Institut Florimont on the importance of digital training

On this week’s edition of Learn More, Sean Power, Director General of the Institut Florimont discusses does a private school in Switzerland automatically mean an international school?

On this week’s edition of Learn More, Sean Power, Director General of the Institut Florimont discusses how important the school environment is for learning

On this week’s edition of Learn More, Sean Power, Director General of the Institut Florimont examines digital skills