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Pr. Louis Loutan, President of the Geneva Health Forum and Head of division of International and Humanitarian Medicine at Geneva University Hospitals. What was the origin of the Geneva Health Forum ? We launched the first ...
Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and founder of Wikipedia, an online, free-content encyclopaedia that has grown into the fifth most visited website globally. Wales established the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation in 2003 to support Wikipedia ...
Kathryn Bolkovac has raised concerns over the ‘’ Whistleblower Improvement Act ‘’ by joining the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) in advocating for the safeguard of the rights and protections of whistleblowers. POGO, an independent nonprofit organization ...
Check out if Wikimedia Foundation is in the Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Revolutionizing the way knowledge is shared. 20 million articles written in 282 languages. “Imagine a world in which every single human being ...
The Assembly of European Regions is organizing a conference on “The Road to Rio: Regions Building the Green Economy” in Geneva, Switzerland, on March 7th, 2012. Geneva is the chosen city for R20’s events ...
This paper is based on a speech given at a conference with the University of Geneva and the Latsis Foundation in December 2011. It has been edited by Professor Fukuyama for The Global Journal. I ...
Jeremy Rifkin, author and social activist with master plans, talks to The Global Journal about the Third Industrial Revolution, and how to bring it about. How would you define yourself? My dad asked me that ...
Leah McGrath Goodman, author of The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World’s Oil Market, talks to the Global Journal about the self-anointed kings of the New York Mercantile Exchange and the floating trading ...
In The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, his latest book, Professor Fukuyama takes risks – encounters with historians can be confrontational if one is not an expert in their specialized ...
The screening of the movie The Whistleblower comes to an end. In the dark room, the atmosphere is heavily charged with disgust and indignation. Massive applause blasts out from a fully filled theatre, both to ...
The UN’s climate change panel (IPCC) has warned that if measures are not taken to lower global CO2 emissions between 50 and 85% by the year 2050, it will be too late to halt ...
After 18 years of negotiations, the initial bid by Boris Yeltsin for Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1993 has finally paid off. The long-lasting negotiations hold the current organization’s ...
One year after the award of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize (NPP) to Chinese opposant Liu Xiaobo, five former Nobel Prize winners are leading the international campaign to call for his release. Chinese academics retaliated ...
After 40,000 Russians faced freezing temperatures and snow to protest on Saturday, President Dmitry Medvedev called for a probe into election fraud, which demonstrators allege took place during December's parliamentary elections. Despite Russian ...
Russian protestors took to the streets in Moscow over the past three days in Arab Spring-like protests alleging election fraud in Russia’s parliamentary elections, which took place on Sunday. But instead of Russia’s ...
Interview with Navi Pillay, High Commissioner, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, Geneva: Imagine that your organization didn’t exist and you were asked to invent it. What would you do? How ...
There is no question that the earth is warming up and that it is due to human activity, according to the report delivered to the UN Climate Change conference that opened in Durban, South Africa ...
Interview with Pascal Lamy, Director General, World Trade Organization, WTO. Confronting the difficulties of closing the Doha Round, the WTO is under pressure to find a way to rebound. Handling the ‘wheel’ is one thing ...
Interview with Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, United Nations Programme on AIDS/HIV Imagine that your organization didn’t exist and you were asked to invent it. What would you do? How would it be fundamentally ...
by Achim Steiner, United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) as a result of the UN Stockholm Conference ...
Interview with Francis Gurry, WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) Director General. Imagine that your organization didn’t exist and you were asked to invent it. What would you build? How would it be fundamentally different ...
Maria van der Hoeven, a former economics minister in the Netherlands, took over as Executive Director of the International Energy Agency in September. She is taking over amid concerns that the I.E.A. is ...
As so much is going on around the world, it is time for a thinker like Rifkin to rise again. Rifkin is a master at that game, connecting the essential drivers of change. He has ...
Interview with Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General World Meteorological Organization Imagine that your organization did not exist and you were asked to invent it. What would you do? How would it be fundamentally different from what exists ...
Morten Albæk, Senior Vice President at Vestas, talks to The Global Journal about his vision –not just for the future of wind energy but also for an innovative business model where the bottom line ...
Interview with Joseph Deiss, former President of the 65th session of the General Assembly Imagine that your organization did not exist and you were asked to invent it. What would you do? How would it ...
Ushahidi is a non-profit software company that is revolutionizing the way governments and international organizations respond to unrest, crises and humanitarian disasters: it uses mobile technology and social media to let citizens report and visualize ...
Last July, French thinker Jacques Attali proposed in The Global Journal to merge the G20 and the Security Council of the United Nations. In its new issue, the magazine asked Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon his thoughts ...
During his visit to China, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy said that the present shifts in the balance of power in global trade lean in favor of emerging economies have defined the need for a "new ...
Even as G20 leaders were meeting in Paris to discuss Europe's dire financial crisis, a leading advisor for the People's Bank of China, Li Daokui said in Beijing that the euro won't ...
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