Movers and Shakers
Keep track of professionally-related news about appointments, promotions or moves to other institutions within International Geneva.
- Covid-19 vaccines for the world - can we do it, and how?
Heidi.news / Geneva Solutions – 13 May 2020
- WHO: People living longer and healthier lives but COVID-19 threatens to throw progress off track
WHO – 13 May 2020
- UNODC, WHO, UNAIDS and OHCHR joint statement on COVID-19 in prisons and other closed settings
Joint statement by Ghada Fathi Waly, Executive Director, UNODC, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO, Winnie Byanyima, Director-General, Executive Director, UNAIDS, and Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
WHO – 13 May 2020 - Forced returns of migrants must be suspended in times of COVID-19
Statement by the United Nations Network on Migration
IOM – 13 May 2020 - Time to rethink the way we work and travel
By Olga Algayerova, Executive Secretary of the UNECE
UNECE / Executive Secretary’s Blog – 12 May 2020 - Coronavirus: la Suisse répond aux besoins humanitaires et soutient le développement de diagnostics, de thérapies et de vaccins
Confédération suisse – 13 mai 2020
- Afghanistan: Gunmen attack Doctors Without Borders clinic in Kabul
Deutsche Welle – 12 May 2020
- Travel restrictions, funding gaps a bigger problem than PPE, humanitarian leaders say
Devex – 12 May 2020
- Amid COVID-19, Communities Continue Fight against Other Pandemics
The Global Fund – 12 May 2020
- 'Finally, a virus got me': Ebola expert on nearly dying of coronavirus
The Guardian – 13 May 2020
- COVID-19 will compromise the transition to clean energy without urgent stakeholder action
WEF – 13 May 2020
- L’OMS récompense cinq films dans le cadre de son festival « Santé pour tous »
ONU Info – 12 May 2020
- Tedros highlights complex challenges posed by COVID-19 resurgence, following easing of lockdowns
UN News – 11 May 2020
- International Nurses Day: Nurses deserve praise, thanks, protection amid COVID-19
International Council of Nurses / ICRC / IFRC – 11 May 2020