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- Two More COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates Show Promise In Peer-Reviewed Clinical Trial Results
Health Policy Watch – 20 July 2020
- «J’ai été hanté par des scénarios catastrophes»
Interview d’Antoine Flahault, Directeur, Institut de santé globale
Tribune de Genève – 20 juillet 2020 (accès payant)
- 4 things young people want from education in the future
By Henrietta H. Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF, and Robert E. Moritz, Global Chairman, PwC
WEF – 20 July 2020
- New ‘Versatile Video Coding’ standard to enable next-generation video compression
ITU – 20 July 2020
- Prisons : il faut prendre acte de l’échec des politiques répressives
Par Ruth Dreifuss, ancienne présidente de la Confédération suisse, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, ancien président de la Pologne, Michel Kazatchkine, ancien directeur du Fonds mondial et Javier Solana, ancien Secrétaire général de l’OTAN
Global Commission on Drug Policy / Le Monde – 20 juillet 2020
- Les Nations Unies célèbrent la première Journée mondiale des échecs en mettant l'accent sur la fraternité
ONU Info – 20 juillet 2020
- CERN visits your home
“Take part in interactive virtual lectures and discover the world of particles and the scientists exploring it”
CERN – 16 July 2020
- Human Rights Council concludes forty-fourth regular session after adopting 23 resolutions
UN Geneva – 17 July 2020
- Can new leadership fix the World Trade Organization's existential crisis?
Heidi.news / Geneva Solutions – 17 July 2020
- ‘Inequality defines our time’: UN chief delivers hard-hitting Mandela day message
UN News – 18 July 2020
- What’s on this week?
General Council at WTO; Digital Health Virtual Round Table with the Member States at WHO; Lancement de la norme mondiale sur les Solutions fondées sur la Nature à l'UICN; Ciné ONU online edition "Wake up on Mars"; Human Rights Committee; Commitee against Torture; Webinar on Athlete Activism & Freedom of Expression by Centre for Sport and Human Rights, and more. Check out the calendar!
- Secretary-General Appoints Pamela Coke-Hamilton of Jamaica Executive Director, International Trade Centre
United Nations / Secretary-General – 24 July 2020
- Human Rights Committee closes its one hundred and twenty-ninth session, its first ever held online
UN Geneva – 24 July 2020
- The Geneva Trade Platform: Broadening and Diversifying the Conversation about Trade
Interview of Dmitry Grozoubinski, Executive Director, the Geneva Trade Platform
The Geneva Observer – 23 July 2020
- Geneva steps onto the stage as an urban laboratory for ecological change
With Panos Mantziaras, Director, Fondation Braillard Architectes
Heidi.news / Geneva Solutions – 24 July 2020
- Inside Geneva podcast: Can Covid-19 'vaccine multilateralism' work?
With Nora Kronig Romero, Head of International Affairs Division, Federal Office of Public Health, Thomas Cueni, Director General, IFPMA, and Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer, Gavi
Swissinfo – 26 July 2020 (audio)
- La mémoire numérique du CERN prend des couleurs
"Près de 200 000 photographies en couleurs ont été scannées afin de les préserver et de les rendre plus facilement accessibles"
CERN – 22 juillet 2020