A warm welcome!

You have our trilingual online publication in front of you. We hope you will take your time to read it and recommend us further. We are happy to inform you about new publications with our newsletter.

Palestine and International Law

From occupation to de facto annexation?

Statement of “International Progress Organization” at United Nations meeting on Palestine

United Nations Office at Vienna, 29 November 2022 – RE/28630c-is

(6 December 2022) In a statement delivered at a special United Nations meeting convened by the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, the President [Hans Köchler*] of the International Progress Organization (I.P.O.) welcomed the decision of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee of the UN General Assembly to request an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice concerning the legal consequences from the ongoing violation of the Palestinian people's right to self-determination.
Conference in Solothurn, 15 and 16 October 2022 – Part 4

What Media in Whose Interest?

by Alan MacLeod,* Scottland

(6 December 2022) I’m an investigative journalist for Palestinian-American news outlet “MintPress News”. I have also been published or quoted in many of the most well-known English-language media outlets. Before that, I was an academic specializing in media and journalism studies.
U.N. General Assembly, 3 November 2022

Near-Unanimous UN Call to End Cuba Blockade

by Brett Wilkins,* USA

(6 December 2022) Thursday’s vote was 185-2. The only two “no” votes were those of the United States and Israel, with Ukraine and Brazil abstaining.

From noodles to the car that rocks Tesla

Reporting from Vietnam

Guy Mettan,* freelance journalist

(6 December 2022) It is a story that begins with a noodle restaurant in Ukraine in 1993 and that continues today in Vietnam in the shape of the country’s largest conglomerate with a turnover of $5 billion by 2021. Meanwhile, its founder, Pham Nhat Vuong, (54), who had settled in Kharkov after completing his geology studies in Moscow, became Vietnam’s first billionaire with an estimated fortune of $8 billion and an enterprise that ranks among the 50 largest in Asia. A career that is in no way inferior to that of Bill Gates' and Steve Jobs' starting in a “garage”.
Book review

“Images of Education”

by Tankred Schaer

(29 November 2022) Jochen Krautz is an art educator at the University in Wuppertal and has become known by the educational political congresses he initiated. He is president of the Society for Education and Knowledge.
Switzerland

“Taking responsibility”

Are we up to the new challenges?

by Thomas Scherr

(29 November 2022) What will happen next? Inflation. Ukraine war. Energy crisis. Wave of refugees. Nuclear threat. Pension fund gap. Supply chain disruption. Economic war with China ... How much leeway is left? Will there be a secure future? Is the right personnel available for it? Will Switzerland fall victim to the “malice of time” after more than seven centuries?