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2019

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©Moises Saman/Magnum

Can the financial sector help solve some of the major challenges world agriculture is facing ? This question, among others, will be debated during the Building Bridges Week that will take place in Geneva between 7 and 11 October 2019. Building Bridges Week's objective is to foster new conversations and collaborations that will accelerate the finance industry’s contribution to the achievement of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. This Peruvian traditional sheep farming was pictured in September 2017, by Magnum Photos member Moises Saman.

7 October 2019
Photo Exposition Guerre et Paix Bodmer
© Yang Yongliang, Heavenly city, 2008

From 5 October 2019 to 1 March 2020, the Bodmer Foundation presents the War and Peace exhibition, organized in partnership with the UNOG and the ICRC. Trough the rare items from the patrimonies of the Bodmer Foundation and the partner institutions, the exhibition aims to inform visitors on the everlasting dialogue between man’s warlike nature and his deep desire for peace.

30 September 2019
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©Roland Bigler / CICR

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC organizes “Voices from the field”. On 18 September, humanitarian workers and victims of armed conflicts will share some stories of how international humanitarian law (IHL) has had a positive impact. This image shows the ICRC leading a role-playing session to explain the rules of IHL to national guards in San Salvador, Salvador in 1988.

 

15 September 2019
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©Alex Ten Napel

Almost 30 years after the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, its Committee will hold its 82nd session from 9 to 27 September at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) at Palais Wilson.

9 September 2019
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Laura Boushnak

The Ninth Meeting of States Parties (9MSP) to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) will be held from 2 to 4 September 2019 in Room XX at the Palais des Nations. The photojournalist and TED member Laura Boushnak spent over 10 years 

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Stuart Franklin / Magnum Photos

The 71st and 72nd meeting of the CITES Standing Committee along with the 18th meeting of the Conference of the Parties will be held from 16 to 28 August at Palexpo. This photo of a tortoise grazing amongst the warm pools surrounded by the geysers was taken in 1997 by Stuart Franklin in the Galapa

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Christopher Anderson / Magnum Photos

Handicap International Switzerland invites you to HI Yoga Nations under the Broken chair on July 16 and 30. Here, photographer Christopher Anderson takes us to the top of the Chase Manhattan building, NYC.

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Raymond Depardon / Magnum Photos

The 11th Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition will be held from 15 to 19 July at the Palais des Nations.

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IPU

IPU celebrates its 130th anniversary! Frédéric Passy (left) and William Randall Cremer (right) founded the IPU in 1889. Both won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 and 1903 respectively, for their work in solving international disputes through mediation.

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Alex Majoli/Magnum Photos

What were the main trends in digital policy in the first six months, and how are they expected to impact developments in the future? On July 2, Geneva Internet Platform invites you to "Digital policy in 2019: A mid-year review". The man chatting above was pictured by Alex Majoli in Lagos, Nigeria in 2003.

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Tony Fouhse

The Geneva Platform on Human Rights, Health and Psychoactive Substances, supported by the GREA and the Institute of Global Health of the University of Geneva, will hold the Geneva Drug Policy Week from 24 to 28  June 2019.

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Marcel Crozet / ILO

This week, we invited Guy Ryder, Director-General of the ILO, to choose an image on the occasion of the International Labour Conference to be held from 10 to 21 June 2019. “Since 1919, the International Labour Organization has been in the frontline bringing together governments, workers and employers to advance social justice and promote decent work.

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Pollution Pods in Tautra, Norway by Michael Pinsky, All Rights Reserved

In the run-up of World Environment Day 2019 on 5 June, the High-Level Dialogue "Beat Air Pollution: The Need for a Multi-Level Response", organized within the Geneva Environment Network framework, will take place at the International Environment House on Monday 3 June, from 12:00-13:30.

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Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum Photos

WMO 18th World Meteorological Congress (Cg-18) will be held from 3 to 14 June 2019.

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Peter Marlow / Magnum Photos

From May 20 to 28, WHO is holding its 72nd World Health Assembly. The day-by-day program is available here. Portrait of Max Naylor Marlow, son of photographer Peter Marlow, returning home after accidentally falling at school.

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Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum Photos

From 13 to 17 May 2019, UNDRR will hold the 6th edition of the United Nations Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. Under the theme "The Dividends of Resilience: Towards Sustainable and Inclusive Societies", the 2019 Platform will be chaired by the Swiss Confederation and the United Nations.

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Alex Majoli/Magnum Photos

Founded in 1919, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) celebrates its 100th anniversary. Here, members of the Grigioverdi del Carso association perform nurses "Crocerossine" caring for an Italian soldier during the Great War.

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Giles Duley

From 6 to 30 May, the Quai Wilson will highlight Giles Duley's admirable work on Disability and Armed Conflict. Presented by Geneva Academy, this exhibition is notably supported by the Republic and Canton of Geneva, through the International Solidarity Fund.

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KEYSTONE-ATS / Roger Viollet / Excelsior

April 24, 2019 marked the first International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace. Almost to the day, in 1919, the Republic and Canton of Geneva announced to the people of Geneva that the Paris Peace Conference had designated Geneva as the seat of the League of Nations.

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George Rodger / Magnum Photos

To announce the UNESCO conference, entitled "Protecting Cultural Property: International Conference on the 20th anniversary of the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention", a replica of Palmyra’s Triumphal Arch, destroyed in 2015, is being erected on Place des Nations.

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