GenevaLunch » Kofi Annan http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 07:51:09 +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 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 Kofi Annan seeks Iran’s support on Syriahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/11/kofi-annan-seeks-irans-support-on-syria/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/11/kofi-annan-seeks-irans-support-on-syria/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:07:06 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=68879 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan is urging Syrian ally, Iran, to help in an effort to achieve peace, The joint UN and Arab League appointee on Syria met with Iran’s foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, Wednesday 11 April in Teheran, saying that Iran could be “part of the solution”. The meeting [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/11/kofi-annan-seeks-irans-support-on-syria/feed/ 0 Kofi Annan says Syria agrees to peace planhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/27/kofi-annan-says-syria-agrees-to-peace-plan/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/27/kofi-annan-says-syria-agrees-to-peace-plan/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:15:48 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=68285 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Syria has agreed to accept a United Nations six-point peace plan, the organization’s former Secretary General Kofi Annan, now a special envoy on the Syria problem for the UN, said through his spokesperson, Ahmad Fawsi, Tuesday 27 March. Fawsi said Monday that Annan had received a response from Syria but would study [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/27/kofi-annan-says-syria-agrees-to-peace-plan/feed/ 0 Int. Red Cross head to Moscow to plead for 2 hr/day aid breakshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/19/int-red-cross-head-to-moscow-to-plead-for-2-hrday-aid-breaks/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/19/int-red-cross-head-to-moscow-to-plead-for-2-hrday-aid-breaks/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:09:23 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=67905 GenevaLunch.com Visit “against deteriorating humanitarian aid background” as fighting breaks out in capital GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Jacob Kellenberger, head of the Geneva-based International Red Cross, is in Moscow Monday 19 March to ask Russian authorities for help in getting a two-hour daily break in fighting in Syria. Kellenberger’s visit “takes place against the background of a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/19/int-red-cross-head-to-moscow-to-plead-for-2-hrday-aid-breaks/feed/ 0 Gateway to Africa conferencehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/04/gateway-to-africa-conference/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/04/gateway-to-africa-conference/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:33:26 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=56064 GenevaLunch.com “Africa’s tomorrow starts today”, conference free with online registration, and open to the public. Lineup of top speakers that includes Kofi Annan, Gordon Brown and Al Gore. Hotel Intercontinental in Geneva, 4-6 April, with the programme starting Tuesday.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/04/gateway-to-africa-conference/feed/ 1 Kofi Annan disappointed in Swiss over fundinghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/02/kofi-annan-disappointed-in-swiss-over-funding/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/02/kofi-annan-disappointed-in-swiss-over-funding/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:55:04 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=39563 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in an interview with Swiss public television TSR says he is disappointed in Switzerland and other donor countries for failing to provide more funding for the Global Humanitarian Forum. Annan was the president of the forum, which was dissolved 31 March by the Swiss government’s supervisory [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/02/kofi-annan-disappointed-in-swiss-over-funding/feed/ 0 Kofi Annan’s forum on brink of losing fundinghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/19/kofi-annans-forum-on-brink-of-losing-funding/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/19/kofi-annans-forum-on-brink-of-losing-funding/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:13:52 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=38931 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss government will decide next Wednesday how to best withdraw its support for Kofi Annan’s Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF), according to Le Temps newspaper, which says the decision has already been taken. The Wednesday meeting will review whether to pay CHF1 million in debts incurred by the forum or whether [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/19/kofi-annans-forum-on-brink-of-losing-funding/feed/ 0 UNHCR sexual harassment case heads to US Supreme Court (update 2)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/03/unhcr-sexual-harassment-case-heads-to-us-supreme-court-update-2/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/03/unhcr-sexual-harassment-case-heads-to-us-supreme-court-update-2/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:25:10 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=38111 GenevaLunch.com Update 2 13:10  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A New York appeals court in the US has rejected an appeal by Cynthia Brzak and Nazr Ishak, who filed a sexual harassment suit against the former UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers and seven other high UN officials. Their lawyer in Geneva, Edward Flaherty, told Geneva [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/03/unhcr-sexual-harassment-case-heads-to-us-supreme-court-update-2/feed/ 2 Group that monitors pledges to Africa may disbandhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/01/group-that-monitors-pledges-to-africa-may-disband/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/01/group-that-monitors-pledges-to-africa-may-disband/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:56:05 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=36301 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) -  Set up to monitor states’ pledges to help Africa, the Africa Progress Panel’s future is “under review”, according to a spokesperson quoted in the UK’s Telegraph. The Panel was called into existence in 2007 by then-Prime Minister Tony Blair, “as a vehicle to maintain a focus on the commitments to Africa [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/02/01/group-that-monitors-pledges-to-africa-may-disband/feed/ 0 WMO says early warning of extreme weather does save liveshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/14/wmo-says-early-warning-of-extreme-weather-does-save-lives/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/14/wmo-says-early-warning-of-extreme-weather-does-save-lives/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:10:31 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=29782 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Eight countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus and five in Southeast Asia are implementing early warning systems to protect against weather-related events, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Today 14 October is International  Day for Disaster Reduction, and the agency is highlighting how early warning and disaster risk reduction [...]

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