GenevaLunch » US Mission http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +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 Gospel and jazz session With singer Jo Ann Pickens, pianist Jan Stumkehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/23/gospel-and-jazz-session-with-singer-jo-ann-pickens-pianist-jan-stumke/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/23/gospel-and-jazz-session-with-singer-jo-ann-pickens-pianist-jan-stumke/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:26:48 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66929 GenevaLunch.com Hosted by the US Mission to the UN in celebration of Black history month. Free and open to the public.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/23/gospel-and-jazz-session-with-singer-jo-ann-pickens-pianist-jan-stumke/feed/ 0 Zimbabwe brushes off Geneva criticism over human rightshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/14/zimbabwe-brushes-off-geneva-criticism-over-human-rights/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/14/zimbabwe-brushes-off-geneva-criticism-over-human-rights/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:20:08 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62488 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Reactions are flowing in to Zimbabwe’s presentation Monday 10 October to the UN Human Rights Commission, part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) that takes place for each country every four years. Zimbabwe’s Justice Minister Patrick Chinawasa presented a “glowing picture” according to Zimbabwe’s The Independent, but critics have had little patience [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/14/zimbabwe-brushes-off-geneva-criticism-over-human-rights/feed/ 0 US points finger at 7 nations for human rights abuseshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/22/us-points-finger-at-7-nations-for-human-rights-abuses/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/22/us-points-finger-at-7-nations-for-human-rights-abuses/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:57:18 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61744 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Seven countries were singled out by US Ambassador to the UN Eileen Donahoe Wednesday when she told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that the US “remains deeply disturbed by ongoing human rights violations around the world”. Iran, Burma, DPKR, China, Cuba, Venezuela and Zimbabwe came in for sharp criticism in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/22/us-points-finger-at-7-nations-for-human-rights-abuses/feed/ 0 US lambasts UN representative Richard Falk; Falk says was unaware of anti-semitismhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/08/us-lambasts-un-representative-richard-falk-falk-says-was-unaware-of-anti-semitism/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/08/us-lambasts-un-representative-richard-falk-falk-says-was-unaware-of-anti-semitism/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:21:26 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59558 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – US Ambassador to the UN Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe used unusually strong words in a statement issued Friday 8 July to suggest that UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk should step down, saying that “his continued status as a UN mandate holder is a blight on the UN system”. The US and Falk have [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/08/us-lambasts-un-representative-richard-falk-falk-says-was-unaware-of-anti-semitism/feed/ 0 US names 7 “Internet Freedom Fellows” in Genevahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/09/us-names-7-internet-freedom-fellows-in-geneva/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/09/us-names-7-internet-freedom-fellows-in-geneva/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:49:51 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58682 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Seven people from seven countries, a collection of bloggers and journalists, all of them human rights activists in their countries, were presented Thursday 9 June in Geneva, and given an opportunity to tell their stories at a conference, “The Human Voice of Freedom, the Internet and Human Rights”. The seven are: Egypt [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/09/us-names-7-internet-freedom-fellows-in-geneva/feed/ 0 US Mission in Geneva hosting webcast on human rights and Internethttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/09/us-mission-in-geneva-hosting-webcast-on-human-rights-and-internet/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/09/us-mission-in-geneva-hosting-webcast-on-human-rights-and-internet/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:44:40 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58671 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The US Mission in Geneva is host Thursday, from 13:00-15:00, to an interactive webcast from the UN Palais on “The Human Voice of Freedom: The Internet and Human Rights”. The session is part of the current session of the Human Rights Council. The US Mission description for the session: “The webcast will [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/09/us-mission-in-geneva-hosting-webcast-on-human-rights-and-internet/feed/ 1 US gives $6.5m more to help IOM evacuate Misrata civilianshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/05/us-gives-6-5m-more-to-help-iom-evacuate-misrata-civilians/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/05/us-gives-6-5m-more-to-help-iom-evacuate-misrata-civilians/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 14:58:12 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57302 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The US Mission in Geneva announced Thursday 5 May that the US government is providing an additional $6.5 million to help the International Organization for Migration evacuate civilians and people who have been wounded by the fighting in Libya, from the port in Misrata. The new funds bring to $53.5m the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/05/us-gives-6-5m-more-to-help-iom-evacuate-misrata-civilians/feed/ 0 US Mission in Geneva no. 2 worldwide for “green diplomacy”http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/29/us-mission-in-geneva-no-2-worldwide-for-green-diplomacy/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/29/us-mission-in-geneva-no-2-worldwide-for-green-diplomacy/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:43:07 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57089 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The US Mission in Geneva 29 April is celebrating its second-place honour for a new award given by the US State Department, the first annual Greening Diplomacy Initiative (GDI) award, “which recognizes leadership and innovation in sustainability projects at State Department buildings around the world”, according to the Geneva office. The [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/29/us-mission-in-geneva-no-2-worldwide-for-green-diplomacy/feed/ 0 Libya’s Internet activity: zero in past 24 hourshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/04/libyas-internet-activity-zero-in-past-24-hours/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/04/libyas-internet-activity-zero-in-past-24-hours/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:16:05 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=54864 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Peter Barron, a Google director, says that Internet activity in Libya in the past 24 hours has been “exactly zero”, citing the difficulty protestors there face trying to use the same kind of tools that protestors have recently used elsewhere in the Middle East to topple dictators. Libya’s Internet access has [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/04/libyas-internet-activity-zero-in-past-24-hours/feed/ 0 Clinton, Lavrov reportedly meeting in Genevahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/28/clinton-lavrov-reportedly-meeting-in-geneva/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/28/clinton-lavrov-reportedly-meeting-in-geneva/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:32:31 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=54619 GenevaLunch.com Libyan crisis brings foreign minister to UNHRC meeting Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are both attending the 16th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva starting Monday and a plenary session of the Conference of Disarmament. Russian media reported Sunday that the [...]

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