Movers and Shakers

Keep track of professionally-related news about appointments, promotions or moves to other institutions within International Geneva.

 

  • Lockdowns, quarantines and face masks - they may help economies rebound from COVID-19

    Heidi.news / Geneva Solutions – 29 April 2020 

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  • Coronavirus: Federal Council to ease further measures from 11 May

    Confédération Suisse – 29 April 2020 

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  • UN leads bid to help 135 countries get vital COVID-19 medical kit, amid severe global shortages

    UN News – 28 April 2020

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  • COVID-19: Gavi and UNICEF to secure equipment & diagnostics for lower-income countries

    GAVI – 28 April 2020

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  • COVID-19: Exceptional measures should not be cover for human rights abuses and violations – Bachelet

    OHCHR – 27 April 2020

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  • WHO May Host Virtual World Health Assembly May 18 – COVID-19 To Be Main Agenda Item

    Health Policy Watch – 28 April 2020

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  • How COVID-19 halted NGO migrant rescues in the Mediterranean

    The New Humanitarian – 28 April 2020

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  • Covid-19 et acteurs armés non étatiques

    Par Alain Délétroz, Directeur général de l’Appel de Genève

    Le Temps – 27 April 2020

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  • Rapid Support Fund COVID-19

    Swiss Philanthropy Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of a collaborative fund to support NGOs whose activities are impacted by the pandemic, the “COVID-19 Rapid Support Fund”.

    Swiss Philanthropy Foundation – 27 April 2020

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  • COVID-19: ALIPH to allocate emergency funding to protect cultural heritage

    ALIPH – 28 April 2020

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  • Covid-19: comment protéger les réfugiés ultra-vulnérables

    Débat en ligne le 29 avril 2020 de 12h à 13h30, avec Gillian Triggs (HCR), Caroline Abu Sa’da (SOS Méditerranée), Etienne Piguet (Université de Neuchâtel) et Gianluca Rocco (OIM)

    Club suisse de la presse – 27 avril 2020

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  • The Geneva Disarmament Platform is closing down

    Geneva Disarmament Platform – 14 April 2020

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  • Record 50 million people internally displaced in 2019, study finds

    The Guardian – 28 April 2020

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  • Global e-Commerce hits $25.6 trillion – latest UNCTAD estimates

    UNCTAD – 27 April 2020 

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  • Concession d'occupation du domaine public pour le Portail de la Science

    « Une convention en vue de l'octroi d'une concession d'occupation du domaine public pour le Portail de la Science a été signée entre la République et canton de Genève et l'Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire (CERN) »
    République et canton de Genève – 27 avril 2020

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  • Postponement of ITU Digital World 2020

    ITU – 27 April 2020

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  • Human Rights Watch: Smart Public Health Strategies Require Protection of Human Rights

    Interview of Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch
    Heidi.news / Geneva Solutions – 27 April 2020 

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  • Coronavirus: UNHCR offers practical recommendations in support of European countries to ensure access to asylum and safe reception

    UNHCR – 27 April 2020 

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  • Protect workers both now and after lockdowns ease, says ILO

    ILO – 28 April 2020

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  • WTO issues new report on treatment of medical products in regional trade agreements

    WTO – 27 April 2020

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  • Suerie Moon avait rédigé un rapport sur la réaction mondiale à l’épidémie d’Ebola: quid du Covid?

    RTS / Tout un monde – 27 avril 2020 (vidéo) 

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