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Week Ahead at the UN

ITU: Giga Reaches Milestone

What Do We Have to Celebrate on Human Rights Day 2021?

Week Ahead at the UN

Interview with César Núñez, UNAIDS

Week Ahead at the UN

WHO: Emergency Meeting of Technical Advisory Group to Assess Omicron Variant

UN Women: Violence Towards Women and Girls

UN Women: End Violence Against Women

UNESCO: Best Speeches Highlight the Never Ending Fight for Women's Rights and Press Freedom as a Pillar of Democracy

Week Ahead at the UN

100 Climate Neutral Cities by 2030

Week Ahead at the UN in Geneva

WFP Global Office in Berlin Has a New Director. Sign-up for Building Bridges, the Sustainable Finance Geneva Annual Conference. UNA-UK CEO Natalie Samarasinghe Joins Open Society.

Cybersecurity and Disinformation? Go to The Hague. Now. *Virtually that is.

Week Ahead at the UN

Week Ahead at the UN + Mass Migration as a Result of Climate Change + Interview with Andrew Harper of UNHCR

Week Ahead at the UN

Do We Need Diplomacy?

UNESCO: Information as a Public Good

European Space Agency: The Future Has Already Arrived

History of Brazil in Capsules, Translating Jack Kerouac, and Why We Know Little About the Brazilian Military Dictatorship

How to Invent the Future

WHO Launches Campaign to End Ageism

UN Women Entrepreneurship Accelerator

The Week Ahead at the UN

The European Defense Union Strategic Compass and the Push for a Stronger Semiconductor Sector

UNESCO: Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law

Where Were You on September 11, 2001?

Interview with AP’s Peter Prengaman on his book about Dilma Rousseff, Torture and the Brazilian Holocaust by Daniela Arbex, Fighting Authoritarianism with Eduardo Bueno

Interview With Career Diplomat Alejandro Ramos Cardoso, Deputy Head of Mission at the Mexican Embassy in New Zealand

ILO: Technology Plays a Crucial Role on the Modernization of Social Protection Systems

WHO Launches Tech Hub in Berlin With USD$100 Million From Germany | ILO Report on Social Protection | Cybersecurity Norms at the UN: Switzerland Leads the Debate at the Parliament This Fall

UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee: Interview with Dr. Catherine Van De Heyning

New York Times Cybersecurity Reporter Sheera Frankel, on her book “An Ugly Truth"

Diplomat Talks: Gerardo Diaz Bartolome, on Digital Diplomacy

Interview with Peter Prengaman, Western US News Director, Associated Press

The UN Brief Weekend Edition. WTO: Agriculture Trade Still Highly Distorted, Human Rights Council: Advisory Committee Reviews Reports on Emerging Tech, Gender Inequalities, Terrorism, and Racism

Human Rights Council Examines Nefarious Impact of Emerging Technologies When Left Unchecked

UN Human Rights Council and Emerging Tech

Human Rights: Interview with Gianni Magazzeni, Universal Periodic Review

UNICEF: Interview with Mac Glovinsky

UNEP: Tim Christophersen

Interview with Andrew Gilmour

Bamboo Capital: Interview with Founder and CEO

Right to Privacy: Interview with UN Special Rapporteur Dr. Cannataci

Poverty in Europe: Interview with UN Special Rapporteur Olivier de Schuter

FAO: Interview with Dominique Burgeon

WHO: Vaccines for Healthcare Workers in the Global South Critical to Stopping Spread of VoC of COVID-19

Right to Privacy: Interview with UN Special Rapporteur Dr. Joseph Cannataci

Interview with Marc-Olivier Strauss-Kahn, Honorary Director-General of the Banque of France and Chair of the Scientific Council of the City of Economics Museum

How Are We Implementing the Durban Declaration?

Interview with the Deputy Consul General of Brazil in San Francisco

Interview with Marc Olivier Strauss-Kahn, Honorary Director-General, Banque de France

UN Food Systems: The People’s Summit

WHO: EPI WIN Network

WHO: Healing Power of the Arts

Week Ahead at the UN in Geneva

ITU Audio-Visual Has Seen Exponential Growth as Demand Increases for Video and Audio Programs

Interview with Jon Henley, European Affairs Correspondent, Paris Bureau Chief, The Guardian

Interview with Jon Henley, European Affairs Correspondent, The Guardian

Interview with Joseph Nye on the Biden-Putin Summit, Soft Power and Hard Power, and How Moral Views of US Presidents Impacted US Foreign Policy

Interview with Dr. Joseph Nye, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government

The UN Brief: Emerging Technologies at the UN

Pascal Lamy: Spain and Germany Join the Paris Peace Forum

Interview with Chris Fabian, UNICEF

Interview with Philippe Cory, UNICEF

Interview with Mr. Zitouni Ould-Dada, Deputy Director, FAO

Interview with Bill Tai, VC and Impact Investor on His Collaboration With UNICEF

The Geography of Innovation: Interview with WIPO ASG Marco Aleman

Interview with Eric Tistounet, Human Rights Council

Interview with Dina Rossbacher, Human Rights Council

Interview with Craig Newmark, on Funding Public Interest News Organisations

Interview with John Frank, VP UN Affairs, Microsoft

Victims of Sexual Abuse Are Not Alone

Interview with Tim Christopherson, UNEP, on the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

Interview with Matthew Baldwin, Director at the European Commission, on Road Safety Policies

Interview with Andrew Gilmour, CEO, Berghof Foundation

Interview with Dr. John Krakauer, BLAM Labs, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

WTO: e-Commerce Experiences a Boom, Tariffs Hamper LDCs, and Online Payments Require Scrutiny

It is a Wrap. WHO Issues Updated Travel Guidance

It is a Wrap. Conferences in Paris and New York.

What is the role of the Special Rapporteur at the UN Human Rights Council?

It is a Wrap #7. Your Mid-Week in Geneva.

How to Finance the UN Sustainable Development Goals?

Travel Restrictions Being Lifted in the EU, Professor Joseph Nye on the US-Russia Summit, and ILO Secures a Commitment to Address COVID Impact on Employment

It is a Wrap #5

How the Day Will Go: US-Russia Summit in Geneva

ITU: Hackathon for Products and Services That Address Ageing Had Entries From All Over the Globe

The Week Ahead at the UN in Geneva

It is a Wrap #4

UNICEF: Learning Passport Initiative Supports Teachers and Students Inclusion in the Digital Economy in Developing Countries, Refugee Camps, and Post-Conflict Zones

ILO: The Future of Work, Work From Home, and the Gig Economy. All in a Day’s Work.

It is a Wrap.

UNICEF: Innovation That Delivers

WHO: Council on the Economics of Health For All

Interview with Brazilian Economist Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr.

GDP – the indicator we love to hate

The Week Ahead at the UN in Geneva

It is a Wrap.

It is a Wrap

WIPO: The Geography of Innovation

WIPO: The Changing Geography of Innovation

Protecting Our Oceans: Life Below Water

UNESCO: Information as a Public Good

EU: Road Safety is a Major Public Health Issue

WHO and FIA Foundation: 90% of Road Deaths and Serious Injuries Occur in Poor Countries

UNESCO: Women Journalists Face Increasing Hostility and Violence on Social Media Platforms

UN Human Rights Council: Interview with Gianni Magazzeni

Can Social Media Actually Reduce Online Political Polarization?

Financing the UN SDGs

WTO Members Stall at Finding Common Ground

Platform Capital: Imagination at Work

WTO Launches Virtual Course on Trade and Public Health

Interview with Jean-Philippe de Schrevel

Interview with Geraldine Le Meur

$19 Billion USD Needed for ACT-Accelerator

WHO and Climate Advocate Greta Thunberg at the Launch of Fund to Support Youth Initiatives to Address COVID with Local Solutions

COVAX Seeking Additional Resources to Support Global COVID-19 Vaccination Campaigns

UNICEF: Important Strides for Child Protection in Partnership with the European Union

Women’s Rights in the UN Agenda

FAO: We Need to Invest in Disaster Risk Reduction to Ensure Food Security

WHO Report Falls Short of Answers on the Origin of SARS-CoV-2 Virus

WHO-China Joint Report on the Origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus: All Hypotheses Remain Open

World Summit on the Information Society

Joanne Wilson: Reflections on a Career in STEM

A Global Fund for Social Protection

UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

Hate Speech and Social Media

ITU: Impact of AI on Healthcare

WSIS Forum 2018

Internet Luminary Bill Tai Discusses the Future of Internet Connectivity for All

The War on Women: Financial Exclusion

Internet Luminary Bill Tai Discusses Elon Musk’s Funding of Giga, and the Future of Internet Connectivity for All

Microsoft Opens UN Affairs Office in Geneva and New York

Do Migrants Have Equal Opportunities for Advancing in the Socio-Economic Ladder?

Interview with John Frank, VP UN Affairs Office

Microsoft to Open UN Affairs Office This Summer

UN Statistics Commission: Measuring Progress for the SDGs

Microsoft to Open UN Office This Coming Summer

UNICEF Receives Donation from the Musk Foundation

Climate Change Impact on Conflict

Musk Foundation Supports UNICEF to Connect Every School to High-Speed Internet

UNICEF: Giga Connect Seeks to Scale

UNICEF: 9 in 10 Children Are Not Connected to the Internet in Africa and Asia

Reported Cases of COVID-19 Decline

AARP and UN Join Forces to Bridge Digital Divide

US Ready to Engage with Multilateral Organizations

Davos: Make Earth Cool Again

WHO: Vaccine Nationalism Harms Global Economy

WHO: Vaccines Delivery Update

How Are the Young Spreading the Virus?

More Than Qualified: Antony Blinken

Are We There Already?