#geneva🇨🇭

[vizcart]

As announced, a new map has been added to the European collection.

We had started this paper years ago, but it had never been finalized. Since we didn't even have a dedicated map of Switzerland yet, we thought it was appropriate to remediate!

This is a geotectonic map of Switzerland that among the authors also has Imhof. It was realized in 1972 but published in 1978 inside the Atlas of Switzerland.

You can find the original sheet in the David Rumsey Map Collection.

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[tiffanyyhs]

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[kevlo75]

The assassination of Elisabeth of Wittelsbach, known as #sissi , Empress of #austria 🇦🇹 and Queen of #hungary 🇭🇺 , occurred early in the afternoon of September 10, 1898 in #geneva #swissalps🇨🇭 . It was perpetrated by Luigi Lucheni, an Italian who claimed to belong to the anarchist movement. On the day of the murder, the 60-year-old Empress stayed at the Hôtel Beau-Rivage with a small suite. (à Statue de Sissi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnHhwBpIshD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[adelieblog]

[xtruss]

The US Sent Cluster Munitions to Ukraine But Activists Still Seek to Bolster a Treaty Banning Them

Backers of an international agreement that bans cluster munitions are striving to prevent erosion in support for it after what one leading human rights group calls an “unconscionable” U.S. decision to ship such weapons to Ukraine for its fight against ...

— By Jamey Keaten | September 5, 2023

Police officers look at collected fragments of the Russian rockets, including cluster rounds, that hit Kharkiv, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Dec. 3, 2022. Backers of an international agreement that bans cluster munitions are striving to prevent erosion in support for it after what one leading human rights group calls an “unconscionable” U.S. decision to ship such weapons to Ukraine for its fight against Russia. Advocacy groups in the Cluster Munitions Coalition released their latest annual report on Tuesday Sept. 5, 2023. AP Photo/Libkos . The Associated Press

Geneva, Switzerland — Backers of an international agreement that bans cluster munitions are striving to prevent erosion in support for the deal after what one leading human rights group calls an “unconscionable” U.S. decision to ship such weapons to Ukraine for its fight against Russia.

Advocacy groups in the Cluster Munitions Coalition released their latest annual report on Tuesday, ahead of a meeting next week of envoys from the 112 countries that have acceded to or ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions. The treaty prohibits the explosives and calls for clearing areas where they litter the ground because they harm and kill many more civilians than combatants,

A further 12 countries have signed the convention. The United States and Russia are not among them.

Mary Wareham of Human Rights Watch, who has long championed the 15-year-old convention, says the coalition was “extremely concerned” about the U.S. move in July, after an intense debate among U.S. leaders, to transfer unspecified thousands of 155mm artillery-delivered cluster munition rounds to Ukraine.

More than 20 government leaders and officials have criticized that decision, the coalition says.

Hoping to avoid defections from the convention, Wareham says supporters hope signatories will “stay strong — that they do not weaken their position on the treaty as a result of the U.S. decision. And we don’t see that happening yet. But it’s always a danger.”

U.S. officials argue that the munitions — a type of bomb that opens in the air and releases smaller “bomblets” across a wide area — could help Kyiv bolster its offensive and push through Russian front lines.

Photo: Sergei Supinsky/AFP Via Getty Images

U.S. leaders have said the transfer involves a version of the munition that has a reduced “dud rate,” meaning fewer of the smaller bomblets fail to explode. The bomblets can take out tanks and equipment, as well as troops, hitting multiple targets at the same time.

But Wareham cited “widespread evidence of civilian harm that (is) caused by these weapons. It was just an unconscionable decision.”

The report says civilians accounted for 95% of cluster munition casualties that were recorded last year, totaling some 1,172 in eight countries: Azerbaijan, Iraq, Laos, Lebanon, Myanmar, Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen. The monitor noted efforts in places like Bulgaria, Peru and Slovakia to destroy their stockpiles of the munitions in 2022 and earlier this year.

Children made up 71% of casualties from explosions of cluster-munition remnants last year, the report said.

It said Russia had “repeatedly” used cluster munitions in Ukraine since President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces to invade Ukraine in February last year, while Ukraine had used them “to a lesser extent.”

Washington’s decision “is certainly a setback,” said Wareham, “but it’s not the end of the road for the Convention on Cluster Munitions by far.”

[swiss-capital-tourism]

Nice to share that with you @martinpoulose #الشعب_الصيني_ماله_حل😂😂 #viralvideo #viral #geneva #zurich🇨🇭 #زيورخ #جنيفا #جنيف #سويسرا🇨🇭 #الامارات #الكويت #قطر #السعودية #qatar #emarite🇦🇪 #kuwait #saudiarabia #snow #suisse🇨🇭 #switzerland #bern #bernesemountaindog #bernoberland #bernoberland_switzerland🇨🇭💝👌🏽😍 (at Romont, Fribourg) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnrpLWoInyC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[noticiassuiza]

El pasado 19 de octubre de 2022, en la embajada de Suiza en Washington D.C., se firmó el acuerdo bilateral de colaboración sobre ciencias de la información y tecnologías cuánticas, por el que ambos países declaran la firme voluntad de seguir colaborando juntos en el progreso de estas materias.

[sourcreammachine]

i kinda needed more than 12 options to make a set of regions that made sense but ah well

[schumi-nadal]

Casper Ruud - Geneva Open 2024 🇨🇭

Second title of the year and third one in Geneva 🏆

[jeffurlan]

Lake Geneva, Switzerland 🇨🇭

[nuagederose]

following up to my original post for “vostok” (the antarctic mermaid and the pinned post—the dtiys for that goes all the way to may 1, too!), i give you my prompts for mermay around the world. i tried to get all the continents—it’s tricky here with the states because we’re such a melting pot of cultures and dialects, so i picked two of the cities i can readily represent through art (i was going to use new orleans or nashville but i’m slightly more drawn to vegas and hawai’i).

this is inspired by three things:

planetary coalition (the obvious one).

some time ago, i was looking into art of the middle east, namely israel and iran (before the revolution of 1979, of course) and feeling enamored by it all.

the third thing that inspired it was thinking about east asian art and how i’ve always been drawn to it. i don’t know how my mind jumped to it but i thought about angkor wat and block paintings of temples in southeast asia, and my mind being the rocket it is went from there.

***i also don’t want to hear any objections to tel aviv and kiev being on here. if you don’t like it, do your own or use someone else’s list.

i’m dropping these now to give plenty of time to study the art and culture of each city. i’d rather let people be influenced and inspired than appropriate 😉

Kingston (Jamaica) 🇯🇲

Las Vegas (United States) 🇺🇸

Mexico City (Mexico) 🇲🇽

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 🇧🇷

Santiago (Chile) 🇨🇱

Honolulu (United States) 🇺🇸

Manila (Philippines) 🇵🇭

Tokyo (Japan) 🇯🇵

Shanghai (China) 🇨🇳

Phnom Penh (Cambodia) 🇰🇭

Auckland (New Zealand) 🇳🇿

Sydney (Australia) 🇦🇺

Suva (Fiji) 🇫🇯

New Delhi (India) 🇮🇳

Kathmandu (Nepal) 🇳🇵

Istanbul (Turkey) 🇹🇷

Tel Aviv (Israel) 🇮🇱

Cairo (Egypt) 🇪🇬

Yamoussoukro (Ivory Coast) 🇨🇮

Freetown (Liberia) 🇱🇷

Fez (Morocco) 🇲🇦

Porto (Portugal) 🇵🇹

Monte Carlo (Monaco/the French Riviera) 🇲🇨

Geneva (Switzerland) 🇨🇭

Athens (Greece) 🇬🇷

Kiev (Ukraine) 🇺🇦

Prague (the Czech Republic) 🇨🇿

Brussels (Belgium) 🇧🇪

Helsinki (Finland) 🇫🇮

Vilnius (Lithuania) 🇱🇹

Dublin (Ireland) 🇮🇪

[ayoosho]

Hello Geneva 🛬🎄🍁🇨🇭…

[kevlo75]

#broken #chair designed by #swiss artist Daniel Berset, and constructed by carpenter Louis Genève. 5.5 tons of wood and is 12 metres (39 feet) high. It depicts a giant chair with a broken leg and stands across the street from the Palace of Nations, in #geneva #swissalps🇨🇭 . It symbolises opposition to land #mines and cluster #bombs , and acts as a reminder to politicians and diplomats visiting Geneva. #genevafrica #osakaexpo #savinglives #unitednations #empozeringlives #connectinglives #connectinghearts (à Broken Chair) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnHe1UhoL2B/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[general-jazz]

Geneva, Switzerland 🇨🇭-2023

[graceandfamily]

Geneva, Switzerland: Princess Grace of Monaco, President of the Monegasque Red Cross, during the filming of a Canadian television film “A View from Genova” at the International Committee of the Red Cross headquarters in April 1966 🇨🇭

© Jérôme Santandrea / International Committee of the Red Cross Public Archives.

[fascinatingeurope]

🇨🇭 🎨 View of Geneva from the Northwest with Mont Blanc - a coloured outline etching by Carl Ludwig Hackert (1740-1796). Digitally restored and enhanced.