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Following the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on 28 November, the government has banned the use of SMS messaging and access to social media networks via mobile telephones. "The service works for ...
The message launched by the South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma at the beginning of the Durban Climate Change Conference “to act now, before it’s too late” seems have remained unheeded. One year after ...
The French government has set the target of providing enough offshore wind capacity to power millions of homes. A consortium led by Iberdrola, a leading Spanish energy company, has announced (January 12) the submission of ...
On January 19 in Geneva, Mr Lamberto Zannier, the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and Mr Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Director-General of the UN Office in Geneva were holding ...
European countries are heading towards increased ‘’interdependence and co-responsibility” according to Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council at Humboldt University (6th February). Speaking on 'The Discovery of Co-responsibility: Europe in the Debt Crisis ...
The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SSR) has announced a wide review of all of its internet platforms, radio and television stations across Switzerland. The oldest English language radio with national broadcasting, World Radio Switzerland (WRS), finds ...
International governance is often discussed in fora designated by cryptic letters. The ‘Gs’ have referred to the Group of 8 (G8), the Group of 7 (G7), the Group of 2 (G2) and now the Group ...
The Swiss firm Stadler Rail announced yesterday (6 June) it had developed the world’s most powerful and largest locomotive yet. The project will be initiated in Brazil in a couple of months. Stadler Rail ...
The “Peace Laboratories” (Laboratorios de Paz) - a joint initiative of the European Commission and the Colombian Government with the objective of promoting the collective construction of suitable conditions for achieving sustainable peace in Colombia - offered ...
On Saturday morning (June 30, 2012), Door IV of Geneva’s Palais des Nations was buzzing with security officers and bodyguards. At the UN Office, Geneva’s Director General, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, together with his most ...
Are the developed countries finally going to cast their gaze into the abyss opened up by the global obsession with money? Have we, at last, decided to undergo a detox cure for pure greed for ...
A fiction writer from the Golden Age of Russian literature could never have dreamed up a scenario as absurd and a story as far-fetched as the persecution of the punk rock band Pussy Riot, found ...
The World Climate Summit, Doha, Qatar, December 1-2, 2012 is the largest international business and finance conference during the UNFCCC COP18. The high-level summit supports an active community of global business, finance and government leaders ...
Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia, Siddharth Kara, Columbia University Press, $29.50. Gaurav is a withered old laborer in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Aged eight when his father ...
Diversity is not about quotas but fair representation. Following on from her previous analysis of NGO boards, Fairouz El Tom lays out the considerations NGOs should keep in mind when appointing board members. An executive ...
Speaking at the 2011 Halifax International Security Forum, Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, warned that Iran continued to be a “major challenge, not just to Israel, but to the whole world’’ adding that "nuclear Iran ...
Introduction Today, most governments are focused on understanding the economic growth they rely on, and take strong measures to sustain this growth. Why are they so focused on this element? It is very clear that ...
What completely preventable disease can kill someone in a matter of hours through dehydration and is caused by contaminated water and food? The answer? Cholera. And it’ is ravaging the Caribbean nation of Haiti as ...
As the opening of the UN Climate Change Conference, Durban 2011 approaches, governments and international organizations are starting to stake their positions regarding implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, the Bali Action Plan and the Cancun ...
US billionaire Bill Gates has called on the world’s richest nations to accept a proposal to tax financial transactions, popularly known as the Robin Hood Tax to help fight global poverty. Gates and fellow ...
Too many girls still renounce to pursue natural science studies, even though they have the same capabilities as boys do. Although women equal or outnumber men in most study fields in the European Union (EU-27 ...
More than half a million people are killed each year as a result of lethal violence. Yet despite popular perceptions, most of these deaths occur outside of the wars that dominate our daily media diet ...
Ivo Ivanovski is the Republic of Macedonia's Minister of Information Society and Administration, and was appointed as Chairman of the Fifth World Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum that took place in Geneva from 14-16 May ...
On 21th October 2011 the government’s representatives of the Basel Convention agreed on the ban of exporting of hazardous waste from the countries of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to the ...
Toshi Nakamura and Ewa Wojkowska worked for the United Nations for a decade in Indonesia, Sierra Leone and across Asia. Although they saw some very interesting projects and important initiatives, they also saw a tremendous ...
Are you happy? While this may sound like a frivolous question, in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and increasingly around the world, happiness is serious business. Last month for the first time ever, the United ...
China has faced a lot of criticism about its new high-speed rail service, especially after a train derailed in July 2010, killing 40 and injuring 192. But a new World Bank study found that the ...
Should democratic governments step into the sovereign affairs of other states in order to prevent genocide or mass killings?During World War II, German cleric Dietrich Bonhoeffer actively conspired against Hitler to resist the persecution ...
Following a long and difficult mediation by Switzerland to overcome objections from Georgia to Russian membership in the WTO (World Trade Organization), an agreement was reached (November 2) to allow Russia full membership by the ...
At the conclusion of last week’s (18-20 October) second meeting of the Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) Board, it was announced that South Korean city Songdo would be the location of the new body ...
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