Movers and Shakers
Keep track of professionally-related news about appointments, promotions or moves to other institutions within International Geneva.
- « Ne pas aider les pays les plus pauvres à combattre le Covid-19 serait cruel et imprudent »Read
Par Mark Lowcock, Secrétaire général adjoint de l’ONU pour les affaires humanitaires et Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Directeur général de l'OMS
Le Monde – 25 mars 2020 - If Covid-19 is not beaten in Africa it will return to haunt us allRead
By Abiy Ahmed, prime minister of Ethiopia and 2019 Nobel Peace prize laureate
Financial Times – 25 March 2020
- Uganda, Usually Welcoming to Refugees, Bars All New Arrivals to Contain CoronavirusRead
The New York Times / Reuters – 25 March 2020
- The Medical Shock & the Economic Shock, a Pocket Lecture by Professor Richard BaldwinRead
YouTube / Heidi.news – 25 March 2020 (video)
- When Finance Fails: Why Economists Didn’t See a Coronavirus Collapse ComingRead
By Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund
The Global Fund – 25 March 2020 - Testing For Coronavirus – Can Latin America and Africa Build Upon The Asian Model?Read
Health Policy Watch – 25 March 2020
- Corinne Momal-Vanian named Executive Director of the Kofi Annan FoundationRead
Kofi Annan Foundation – 25 March 2020
- Covid-19 : le plaidoyer pour la coopération internationale de la cheffe de l’ONU à GenèveRead
ONU Info – 24 mars 2020
- Statement of United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Mr. Geir O. PedersenRead
Appeal for a nationwide ceasefire and all-out-effort to counter COVID-19 in Syria
UNOG – 24 March 2020
- Joint statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising CommitteeRead
“In the present circumstances and based on the information provided by the WHO today, the IOC President and the Prime Minister of Japan have concluded that the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo must be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020 but not later than summer 2021, to safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic Games and the international community.”
International Olympic Committee – 24 March 2020
- Médecins Sans Frontières Announces Campaign For $5 COVID-19 Test On ‘GeneXpert’ TB PlatformRead
Health Policy Watch – 24 March 2020
- Rony Brauman: «On a cru pouvoir éradiquer les maladies infectieuses mais c’était une chimère»Read
Le Temps – 24 mars 2020
- 'Together At Home': Priyanka Chopra Jonas and WHO Experts Answered All of Our COVID-19 QuestionsRead
Global Citizen – 24 March 2020
- WHO launches global megatrial of the four most promising coronavirus treatmentsRead
Science – 22 March 2020
- ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao’s statement on the launch of a global platform to help protect telecommunication networks during the COVID-19 crisisRead
ITU – 23 March 2020