GenevaLunch » International organizations http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no WHO expected to declare polio global health emergencyhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/24/who-expected-to-declare-polio-global-health-emergency/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/24/who-expected-to-declare-polio-global-health-emergency/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 14:16:40 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=70489 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The World Health Organization is expected to declare polio a global health emergency as the World Health Assembly convenes in Geneva this week. Bruce Aylward, director of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative at the WHO, said  Thursday 24 May that “Over the last 24 months on three continents – in Europe, in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/24/who-expected-to-declare-polio-global-health-emergency/feed/ 0 Cuba, Bahrain in hot seats in UNHRC reviews, Syria lambastedhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/24/cuba-bahrain-in-hot-seats-in-unhrc-reviews-syria-lambasted/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/24/cuba-bahrain-in-hot-seats-in-unhrc-reviews-syria-lambasted/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 13:17:10 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70488 GenevaLunch.com UN Independent Commission on Syria says more than 200 deaths since ceasefire began GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The UN Human Rights Council holds country reviews regularly and many are heated, but this week in Geneva several meetings have turned up the heat under accusations of human rights abuses. Cuba appeared before the UN Committee Against Torture [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/24/cuba-bahrain-in-hot-seats-in-unhrc-reviews-syria-lambasted/feed/ 0 Red Cross messages film takes award in Houstonhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/red-cross-messages-film-takes-award-in-houston/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/red-cross-messages-film-takes-award-in-houston/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 15:16:36 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70457 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – “25 words”, a low-budget first documentary by Liu Shen about three sisters who shared Red Cross messages during the second world war, has taken a bronze medal at the WorldFest-Houston International Independent Film Festival, the oldest independent film festival in the world. He began the film shortly after one of the sisters, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/23/red-cross-messages-film-takes-award-in-houston/feed/ 0 Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to address ILO in Genevahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/22/nobel-laureate-aung-san-suu-kyi-to-address-ilo-in-geneva/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/22/nobel-laureate-aung-san-suu-kyi-to-address-ilo-in-geneva/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 11:32:18 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70413 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will be in Geneva 14 June, her first stop abroad since being released from house arrest by Myanmar/Burmese authorities earlier this year. The head of her country’s National League for Democracy (NLD) will speak at the International Labour Organization‘s 101st international labour conference. Some 4,000 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/22/nobel-laureate-aung-san-suu-kyi-to-address-ilo-in-geneva/feed/ 0 World Health Assembly meets in Genevahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/21/world-health-assembly-meets-in-geneva/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/21/world-health-assembly-meets-in-geneva/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 17:26:10 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70387 GenevaLunch.com Dr Margaret Chan up for election to head WHO for second term GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The World Health Organization’s 192 members are meeting for five days in Geneva starting Monday 21 May. The assembly will elect a director general and current head Dr Margaret Chan, with solid backing from the board, looks set for re-election. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/21/world-health-assembly-meets-in-geneva/feed/ 0 WWF’s 2012 Living Planet report holds little good newshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/15/wwfs-2012-living-planet-report-holds-little-good-news/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/15/wwfs-2012-living-planet-report-holds-little-good-news/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 08:33:53 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70271 GenevaLunch.com “Our natural capital is declining and our Ecological Footprint is increasing.” GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The message is stark: “Humanity’s demands exceed our planet’s capacity to sustain us. That is, we ask for more than what we have.” The implications are dire: food and water for all will happen only if we manage our resources much better. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/15/wwfs-2012-living-planet-report-holds-little-good-news/feed/ 0 ICRC concerned about Palestinian hunger strikershttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/10/icrc-concerned-about-palestinian-hunger-strikers/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/10/icrc-concerned-about-palestinian-hunger-strikers/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 07:02:50 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70098 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The International Red Cross in Geneva says that it is “extremely concerned about the deteriorating health condition of six Palestinian detainees who have been on hunger strike for between 47 and 71 days.” More than 1,600 people being held in what is called “administrative detention: by Israeli authorities have been on a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/10/icrc-concerned-about-palestinian-hunger-strikers/feed/ 0 Cheering news from int’l. organizations in Genevahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/09/cheering-news-from-intl-organizations-in-geneva/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/09/cheering-news-from-intl-organizations-in-geneva/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 19:59:58 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69997 GenevaLunch.com Haitians finding shelter, Jordan’s mines lifted, Thai migrants get affordable HIV help GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Warnings of impending civil war in Syria came from the UN’s Special Envoy Kofi Annan Tuesday 8 May, backed up by an International Red Cross appeal Tuesday for CHF24.5 million in funds to help the tens of thousands of displaced [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/09/cheering-news-from-intl-organizations-in-geneva/feed/ 0 Timor-Leste’s slow political recovery embracing larger grouphttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/timor-lestes-slow-political-recovery-embracing-larger-group/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/timor-lestes-slow-political-recovery-embracing-larger-group/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 11:10:27 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69802 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Timor-Leste, widely known as East Timor, is slowly but surely making a recovery from the 1975-1999 independence battle that left it badly scarred. The Geneva-based UN Development Programme this week issued photos taken in the Ainero district, which has remote areas that are difficult to reach, showing women voting for the first [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/timor-lestes-slow-political-recovery-embracing-larger-group/feed/ 0 World jobs outlook gloomy, new ILO report sayshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/30/world-jobs-outlook-gloomy-new-ilo-report-says/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/30/world-jobs-outlook-gloomy-new-ilo-report-says/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:08:37 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69717 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A quick fix for joblessness worldwide, but particularly in Europe, is not at hand, says the International Labour Organization (ILO). The Geneva-based UN body gives a gloomy prognosis in its new “World of Work 2012″ report, issued Monday 30 April. It argues that the time has come to “move towards a growth- [...]

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