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To mark the 70^th 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.  

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

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 documenting the survivors of cluster bombs.

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 was taken in 1997 by Stuart Franklin in the Galapagos Islands. 

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.

The 11th Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition will be held from 15 to 17 July at the Palais des Nations.

IPU celebrates its 130^th 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.