UNHCR’s Guterres given second 5-year term
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – António Guterres has been given a mandate to continue heading the UNHCR (UN refugees organization) for the next five years, at the end of a first...
View ArticleSalon du Livre sees dip in numbers
GenevaLunch News Latest fair to feel fallout from economic crisis but Geneva private jet fair numbers likely to be up Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Salon du Livre, Geneva’s annual bookfair...
View ArticleThere are more of us: Switzerland’s int’l population up by 2.2%
GenevaLunch News Unemployment hits foreigners harder than Swiss Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The rate of growth of resident foreigners as part of the Swiss population is picking up, with a 2.2...
View ArticleGeneva has 2nd suicide in 10 days near gov’t buildings (update)
GenevaLunch News 12 November Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A man hung himself from a tree early Thursday morning 11 November in central Geneva, near the Swiss federal compensation office...
View ArticleSwiss abroad numbers up, 72% dual nationals
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The number of Swiss who officially reside outside the country rose in 2010 by 10,127 to 695,101. The vast majority, more than 500,000, are dual...
View ArticleSwiss tourism up in March
GenevaLunch News Airlines, tourist reservations in Europe also seeing strong growth Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Overnight stays in Swiss hotels, the standard measure of the tourism industry’s...
View ArticleSomali refugees top 1 million, but flow is slowing
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – UNHCR, the UN refugee organization in Geneva, says that the number of Somali refugees fleeing to other countries in the Horn of Africa, in particular to Kenya and...
View ArticleSyrian civilians’ plight: UN warns humanitarian crisis rapidly worsening
GenevaLunch News British PM Cameron pushes for military intervention GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The 20-month-old Syrian civil war has killed more than 20,000 people and left 2.5 million in urgent need of...
View ArticleAsylum seekers on rise in Switzerland, but sharp drop from Balkans (update)
GenevaLunch News New 48-hour turnaround policy effective, says Bern Update 17:30 BERN, SWITZERLAND – The number of requests for asylum in Switzerland rose by 6.8 percent in October, to 2,407, while...
View ArticleNumber of successful asylum seekers down as loopholes closed
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – The number of requests for asylum in Switzerland fell by 16 percent in February, compared to January (and by 20 percent compared to February 2012), and the number...
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