GenevaLunch » Kofi Annan http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:27:39 +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.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Gateway to Africa conference http://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.

Gateway to Africa conference © genevalunch.com, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/04/gateway-to-africa-conference/feed/ 1 Kofi Annan disappointed in Swiss over funding http://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 [...]

Kofi Annan disappointed in Swiss over funding © genevalunch.com, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/04/02/kofi-annan-disappointed-in-swiss-over-funding/feed/ 0 Kofi Annan’s forum on brink of losing funding http://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 [...]

Kofi Annan’s forum on brink of losing funding © genevalunch.com, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

]]> 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 [...]

UNHCR sexual harassment case heads to US Supreme Court (update 2) © genevalunch.com, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

]]> 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 disband http://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 [...]

Group that monitors pledges to Africa may disband © genevalunch.com, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

]]> 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 lives http://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 [...]

WMO says early warning of extreme weather does save lives © genevalunch.com, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/14/wmo-says-early-warning-of-extreme-weather-does-save-lives/feed/ 0 Kofi Annan sends names to International Criminal Court http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/10/kofi-annan-sends-names-to-international-criminal-court/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/10/kofi-annan-sends-names-to-international-criminal-court/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:05:19 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=21864 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, who now heads the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, has sent a sealed envelope with a list of names of people suspected of having fanned ethnic violence following the 2007 presidential election in Kenya, to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Annan played a [...]

Kofi Annan sends names to International Criminal Court © genevalunch.com, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/10/kofi-annan-sends-names-to-international-criminal-court/feed/ 4 Kofi Annan opens Geneva forum: “Give voice to climate change victims” http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/23/kofi-annan-opens-geneva-forum-give-voice-to-climate-change-victims/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/23/kofi-annan-opens-geneva-forum-give-voice-to-climate-change-victims/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:25:01 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=20852 GenevaLunch.com Update 2  13:01  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – “This conference must provide a powerful voice for the victims of climate change,” Kofi Annan said in opening remarks at the second annual Global Humanitarian Forum, Tuesday morning 23 June in Geneva. The forum is focusing on the impact on humans of climate change during the two day [...]

Kofi Annan opens Geneva forum: “Give voice to climate change victims” © genevalunch.com, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/23/kofi-annan-opens-geneva-forum-give-voice-to-climate-change-victims/feed/ 0 Kofi Annan’s humanitarian forum gets Swiss government audit http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/05/15/kofi-annans-humanitarian-forum-gets-swiss-government-audit/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/05/15/kofi-annans-humanitarian-forum-gets-swiss-government-audit/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 11:14:32 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=17315 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (TSR, Fre) – The Global Humanitarian Forum set up in 2007 by Kofi Annan, former UN director-general, is being audited by the Swiss government, reports TSR. Switzerland has contributed CHF500,000 in 2009 and is scheduled to pay another half million this year once the audit is completed. The decision to carry out a [...]

Kofi Annan’s humanitarian forum gets Swiss government audit © genevalunch.com, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/05/15/kofi-annans-humanitarian-forum-gets-swiss-government-audit/feed/ 1 Kofi Annan’s Africa Progress Panel underway http://genevalunch.com/blog/2007/05/25/kofi-annans-africa-progress-panel-underway/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2007/05/25/kofi-annans-africa-progress-panel-underway/#comments Fri, 25 May 2007 09:22:00 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://b-spirit.ch/2007/05/25/kofi-annans-africa-progress-panel-underway/ GenevaLunch.com

Kofi Annan’s Africa Progress Panel underway © genevalunch.com, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2007/05/25/kofi-annans-africa-progress-panel-underway/feed/ 0