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Jedes Jahr widmen die Republik und der Kanton Genf einer in Genf ansässigen internationalen Organisation den jeweiligen Jahrgangswein, die «Vigne des Nations».Erstmals wurde diese Auszeichnung 1995 anlässlich des 50. Jahrestages der Vereinten Nationen verliehen. Genf drückt damit seine Anerkennung für die Arbeit der internationalen Organisationen aus.
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Geneva, 21 March 2019
IRIN, a nonprofit newsroom reporting from the heart of conflicts, disasters, and other humanitarian crises, launched a new brand identity today: The New Humanitarian
First founded as an information department of the UN in 1995, IRIN became a fully independent media organization in 2015. It is one of only a handful of newsrooms in the world specializing in the coverage of crises and disasters, as well as reporting on the aid industry.
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April 2014
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Island – Ständige Mission (UNO)
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SM Island
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Greycells - Former International Civil Servants for Knowledge Sharing
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On 20 May 2021, the Internal Displacement monitoring centre (IDMC) organizes the virtual launch of the 2021 Global report on Internal Displacement. This impromptu barber set-up was pictured by, Magnum Photographer, Peter van Agtmael at the Al-Khazer IDP camp, in Iraq, in 2017.
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Lettland – Ständige Mission (UNO)
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Today, 24 May, on the margins of the 75th World Health Assembly (WHA), the Global Health Centre (GHC) of the Geneva Graduate Institute will hold the high-level panel discussion entitled "A different scale: Global action to address obesity." This side event will feature the WHO Acceleration Plan to STOP Obesity launched at the WHA.
Photojournalist Lisa Krantz documented one man's losing battle with obesity. Hector Garcia Jr. weighs over 600 pounds in this image. Moving from one room to another has become nearly impossible for him, so his mother, Elena, watches over him. This four-year photographic account titled "A Life Apart: The Toll of Obesity" is accompanied by the heartbreaking testimonies of Hector and his loved ones. It is viewable here.
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The long-awaited Ministerial Conference, the World Trade Organization's topmost decision-making body, will be held in Geneva from 12 to 15 June. View of the Centre William Rappard, WTO headquarters, photographed by Luca Fascini in 2017.
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"Join the Geneva Center for Security Policy and Atlantic Council's Cyber Statecraft Initiative in Geneva, Switzerland on April 5 and 6, 2018 for the annual Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge!"GCSP
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"UN Environment is establishing the network's secretariat in Geneva with support from Swiss public authorities at both the federal and cantonal levels, as well as from private sources in Geneva."FC4S – 13 April 2018
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According to the World Health Organization, two billion people still do not have basic sanitation facilities. How do governments and organisations address this sanitation crisis? On 19 November, the "Toilet Revolution" event, organized by Heidi News and the Graduate Institute with the support of the Toilet Board Coalition and UN-Water. will focus on digital health innovations in the field of sanitation and will shed light on organisations based in Geneva working to improve the global sanitation landscape.
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Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
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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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Stop Killer Robots
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Genf beherbergt 250 NGOs mit Konsultativstatus bei den Vereinten Nationen (ECOSOC-Status). Diese Nichtregierungsorganisationen sind in den Bereichen Gesundheit, Frieden, Handel, Menschenrechte und humanitäre Hilfe tätig. Mit ihrem Engagement tragen sie dazu bei, dass Genf für die Global Governance eine zentrale Rolle spielt.