Movers and Shakers
Keep track of professionally-related news about appointments, promotions or moves to other institutions within International Geneva.
- Adoption à Genève d’une norme de l’ONU sur les systèmes de voitures autonomes
ONU Info – 25 juin 2020
- «Il est injuste de ne voir l’ONU que comme un monstre bureaucratique»
Interview d'Antonio Guterres, secrétaire général de l'ONU
Tribune de Genève – 27 juin 2020 (accès payant)
- Massive Mobilization of US $31.3 Billion Required for COVID-19 Diagnostics, Drugs & Vaccines Accelerator
Health Policy Watch – 26 June 2020
- Fisheries subsidies negotiations chair introduces draft consolidated text to WTO members
WTO – 25 June 2020
- UN highlights urgent need to tackle impact of likely electric car battery production boom
UN News – 28 June 2020
- Is it the toughest job at the UN?
Interview of Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Swissinfo – 27 June 2020
- CERN unveils its new European strategy - it does not rule out a new particle accelerator
Heidi.news / Geneva Solutions – 26 June 2020
- What’s on this week?
Human Rights Council / 44th session, CEDAW / 76th Session, Trade and Development Board at UNCTAD, ILO Global Summit on COVID-19 and the World of Work, Dialogue de Caux sur l'Environnement et la Sécurité, International Gender Champions' Fifth Anniversary, Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge 2020 at GCSP, and more. Check out the calendar!
- Germany, France shore up political, financial aid to beleaguered WHO
Swissinfo / Reuters – 25 June 2020
- Germany ramps up its contribution to the HIV response with an extra €20 million to UNAIDS
UNAIDS – 25 June 2020
- Les vertus de «l'Alliance pour le multilatéralisme» pour raviver une coopération internationale en crise
Le Temps – 25 juin 2020
- 10th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared over; vigilance against flare-ups and support for survivors must continue
WHO – 25 June 2020
- Interpeace and UNICEF partner to contribute to peace through work with children
Interpeace – 26 June 2020
- Speak out against torture, an ‘abhorrent denial of human dignity’, urges UN chief
UN News – 25 June 2020
- À Genève, le vieux Palais des Nations s’offre un lifting
Tribune de Genève – 26 juin 2020 (accès payant)
- Coronavirus : l’OMS mobilisée pour fournir des concentrateurs d’oxygène aux pays qui en ont le plus besoin
ONU Info – 24 juin 2020