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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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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 notably 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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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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The 92 session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) starts today, 16 January, until 3 February. The Convention on the Rights of the Child sets out the rights that must be realized for children, adolescents, and teenagers to develop to their full potential, and be protected from violence, abuse, and harm. This photograph was taken in Belbedji, Niger, in July 2021 by Zied Ben Romdhane. It is part of the story "Children of the Rain" and selected in the Witnesses: 50 years of Doctors Without Borders project.
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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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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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8 March marks International Women's Day. In this impetus, the Geneva Environment Network convenes you to the high-level panel discussion addressing “Women, Girls, and the Triple Planetary Crisis” through the lens of climate change, biodiversity loss, human rights, gender, and innovation. Along the same path, the WTO organizes “A Conversation between European Central Bank President, Christine Lagarde and WTO Director-General, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.” The photojournalist Nana Heitmann followed, 16-year-old, Divya Chaudhry’s quest to study for a career in science encouraged by youth empowerment groups, and the support of her parents. Here, Divya poses with her sister Saniya next to their village, Turki, Madhya Pradesh, India in November 2022.
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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.