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Was ist ihr Ziel? Wie stellen sie sich die Zukunft der globalen Governance vor?
Treffen Sie diejenigen, die das internationale Genf gestalten und sich für eine bessere Welt einsetzen.
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On January 31, the Graduate Institute launched the Geneva Policy Outlook, a new digital publication produced with the support of the Swiss Confederation, the Republic and State of Geneva, the City of Geneva, as well as the Fondation pour Genève.
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Monarchen, Präsidenten, Minister, Diplomaten und Delegierte kommen nach Genf, um ihre Positionen zu verteidigen, den Lauf der Geschichte zu verändern oder eine bessere Zukunft aufzubauen. Entdecken Sie einige der Persönlichkeiten, die Genf seit 1926 ins Rampenlicht gerückt haben.
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Discours prononcé par Mme Nathalie Fontanet, Conseillère d'Etat, à l'occasion de la Kofi Annan Geneva Peace Address (en anglais)3 novembre 2023
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The Global Fund – 18 April 2018
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The Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW), organized annually by OCHA and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), will be held from 17 to 28 April 2023. Since its inception in 2015, this conference has provided a space for practitioners and experts to connect and fosters a collaborative approach to address common challenges in crisis preparedness and response. The above scene was taken by Peter van Agtmael at the Bab al-Hawa Hospital, Syria, in the aftermath of the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria in February 2023.
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"What will 2023 bring for digital geopolitics, AI, data, and cryptocurrencies? What issues will dominate the United Nations and multilateral agenda in Geneva and beyond?" Those questions, and numerous others, will be discussed at DiploFoundation's "Trends and Predictions for 2023" webinar on 12 January at 14:00 CET. The conceptual image above symbolizes the "Right to ensure human direction and control over artificial intelligence." It is the result of a collaboration between Magnum photographer Cristina de Middel and the International Federation for Human Rights to mark their Centenary in 2022.
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"How global governance needs to adapt to new world orders?" How do we accelerate the process from ideas to actions? What can be done now, and by whom? Those questions are at the core of the new digital publication "Geneva Policy Outlook," produced by the Geneva Graduate Institute. Key findings of this pilot edition, and a discussion with some authors on issues and negotiations to watch in 2023 will be presented at the launch event on 31 January. This school, built on stilts to avoid incidents due to the rise in water levels, was pictured by Sohrab Hura near Tacloban, Philippines. It is part of UNEP's commission of ten of Magnum's Photographers to document the solutions implemented to curb the rise of global temperatures. This photographic corpus resulted in the exhibition "We have the power: we are the change."
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On 23 February 2023, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, known as the Declaration of Geneva, is 100 years old. This anniversary is the occasion to announce that the International Museum of the Reformation will present, from 27 April to 27 August, the exhibition "Déflagrations: more than a century of children's drawings in wars and mass crimes."
The exhibition will bring together more than 150 drawings by children who have witnessed, been victims of, and acted in armed conflicts from the First World War to the present day.
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From 27 February to 4 April 2023, the Human Right Council is holding its 52nd regular session. United Nations' highest body dedicated to the protection and promotion of Human Rights will mark the 35th anniversary of the Declaration on the Right to Development and organizes notably a series of high-level meetings addressing youth rights and participation, the question of death penalty, racism, the rights of people with disabilities and children's rights. You may watch the session live on UN Web TV. Those children playing were pictured in September 2020, by Emin Ozmen, in the province of Mardin, Turkey, at the border with Syria, where thousands of Syrians have sought refuge since the beginning of the war.
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The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) holds the World Cancer Congress in Geneva from 18 to 20 October. Through a multidisciplinary program that presents the latest successful interventions in cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care, experts and leaders will deliver a suite of innovative and interactive sessions covering the full spectrum of cancer control. Nancy Borowick spent years photographing her parents undergoing parallel treatments for stage four cancer. This multi-rewarded intimate family story is part of the book entitled "The Family Imprint: A Daughter's Portrait of Love and Loss," Hatje Kantz publishing, and will be shown at the Xposure festival in February 2023.
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In the roundup of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Geneva Human Rights Platform and Child rights connect, organize the discussion "Child participation in the work of UN Human Rights mechanisms" today, 6 February, at 13:15. This event is part of the Human Rights Conversations series that aims to discuss today's challenges to promote and safeguard Human Rights. The above sparkling scene was pictured by Alex Webb in the framework of UNICEF's Children's broadcasting participation program, in Mozambique, in 2012.
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For the first time, 30 March will mark the International Day of Zero waste. In this context, the Geneva Environment Network organizes the discussion "Beating Waste Pollution | Geneva Zero Waste Day Celebration." This multi-stakeholder event will highlight the steps taken by International Geneva actors and beyond to achieve the zero waste agenda. While the tide is out, those brave volunteers struggle in the mud to collect rubbish and loads of plastic bags. Ian Berry took this image on the Isle of Dogs during the London Rivers week for clean rivers organized by Thames21 in England in 2008.
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Since 2018, the 24 January marks the International Day of Education. It is the occasion to remind that the first Declaration of the Rights of the Child, known as the Declaration of Geneva, was adopted a hundred years ago, recognizing the existence of specific rights for children and that "humanity must give the child the best it has." This portrait of Somali girls at school was taken in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, in 2016, by Magnum photographer Newsha Tavakolian.
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Diese fünfte Ausgabe der Newsletter der Parlamentarischen Gruppe Internationales Genf bietet einen Überblick über innovative und nachhaltige Projekte für eine Energiewende im Kontext der Klima- und Sozialkrise. Entdecken Sie themen- und sektorübergreifende Initiativen, die in Genf ins Leben gerufen wurden und sich für eine Verringerung des CO2-Fußabdrucks, eine grüne Wirtschaft und mehr Gleichberechtigung einsetzen.
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To mark its 75th anniversary, the World Health Organization (WHO) presents the exhibition "Picturing Health, 75 years of progress and challenges" at Quai Wilson from 3 April to 1 May. For over 70 years, the WHO has assigned professional photographers to document its efforts to advance health for all, today constituting a collection of more than 58'000 images. As part of the exhibition, this portrait of a mother and child suffering from smallpox was taken in the early 70s by renowned Indian photojournalist T. Satyan. In 1980, the 33rd World Health Assembly endorsed the conclusions of the Global Commission for Certification of Smallpox Eradication that smallpox had been eradicated worldwide and that the return of the virus was unlikely." The Smallpox Archives are, since 2017, registered in the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme.
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This year’s World TB Day theme focuses on "Yes! We can end TB." In this perspective, the WHO invites you on 22 March to an online Talk Show with WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and other senior WHO leadership, ministers, leaders, high-level government representatives, Heads of Agencies, TB survivors, civil society, and partners. The Show is broadcast live, with interactive Q&A from the audience online. This sparkling little girl above suffers from spinal tuberculosis and must wear a stiff body jacket. She was pictured, by David Seymour, in 1948 at the Bellevue Hospital in Vienna, Austria.
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The International Cooperation Forum Switzerland will take place on 15 and 16 February under the theme "Education for Future." This event will bring together actors from international cooperation, business, finance, civil society, and research to address sustainable funding, innovative and practical solutions, and active youth participation for global quality education. This classroom scene pictures Syrian children in a makeshift school supported by the Turkish NGO "Support to Life." It was taken by Magnum photographer Emin Ozmen, in Hatay, Turkey, in 2018.