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  • L'impact disproportionné de la Covid-19 sur les minorités raciales et ethniques doit être traité d'urgence - Michelle Bachelet

    ONU Info – 2 juin 2020

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  • How could the US withdraw from WHO?

    Devex – 2 June 2020

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  • WHO begins search for new sources of funding

    Interview with Thomas Zeltner

    CNN Money Switzerland – 2 June 2020 (video)

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  • Watch: Peter Sands' 'nightmare' coronavirus scenario

    Devex – 1 June 2020 (video)

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  • Swiss Philanthropist Dona Bertarelli Named UNCTAD Special Adviser for the Blue Economy

    UNCTAD – 2 June 2020

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  • The flags of the Geneva Human Rights Platform fly on the Mont-Blanc bridge

    Geneva Academy – 2 June 2002

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  • Paul Ress – Longtime Geneva and UN journalist dies at age 98

    Heidi.news / Geneva Solutions – 2 June 2020

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  • US To ‘Terminate Relationship’ With The World Health Organization – Announcement Coincides With WHO Launch Of ‘COVID-19 Technology Access Pool’

    Health Policy Watch – 29 May 2020

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  • WHO pushes to keep ties with 'generous' U.S. despite Trump's exit move

    Reuters – 1 June 2020

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  • Globalizing the Fight Against the Pandemic

    By Carlos Alvarado Quesada, President of Costa Rica, and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization

    Project Syndicate – 29 May 2020

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  • Medicines Patent Pool can be conduit for access to affordable Covid-19 treatments

    Heidi.news / Geneva Solutions – 1 June 2020

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  • Obstacle majeur de la lutte contre la pandémie en Afrique: les «trous noirs» djihadistes

    Avec Alexandre Liebeskind, directeur régional Centre pour le dialogue humanitaire Sahel, Grands Lacs et Afrique francophone

    Heidi.news / Geneva Solutions – 29 mai 2020

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  • Soumya Swaminathan: «Tout ce qui sort de l'OMS subit un contrôle de qualité exigeant»

    Le Temps – 1 juin 2020 (accès payant)

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  • Facebook and Red Cross Launch #AfricaTogether, a Campaign Calling for Vigilance against Covid-19

    ICRC – 1 June 2020

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  • Multilatéralisme et Covid-19 : dépasser les injonctions creuses

    Le Temps / Le blog de Aurèle Cotton – 1 juin 2020

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  • Geneva's United Nations HQ a ghost town under lockdown

    Swissinfo – 30 May 2020

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  • Humanitaire à l’épreuve

    Avec Robert Mardini, directeur général du CICR

    RTS / Géopolitis – 31 mai 2020 (vidéo)

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  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement appeals for 3.1 billion Swiss francs (3.19 billion US dollars) to curb COVID-19's spread and assist world's most vulnerable amid the pandemic

    ICRC – 28 May 2020

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  • Pharma partners in efforts to give coronavirus vaccine for everyone

    IFPMA – 28 May 2020

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  • Le Conseil des droits de l'homme reprendra le 15 juin à Genève

    Swissinfo / ATS – 28 mai 2020

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  • 2020 WTO Public Forum cancelled

    WTO – 28 May 2020

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