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Vous prendrez bien un bain de forêt
Reconnus depuis longtemps pour leur pouvoir régénérateur, les arbres sont de puissants alliés de notre santé aux plans physiologique et psychologique. C’est au Japon que la sylvothérapie, ou thérapie par les arbres, a gagné ses lettres de noblesse. Dans les années 80,...
Et si on passait l’hiver sans se blesser !
Quels sont les accidents les plus fréquents ? Férus de sports de glisse, comme le snowboard, la luge et le ski, quelque trois millions de suisses se précipitent chaque année sur les pistes. Une passion qui n’est pas sans conséquences : 70 000 accidents par an, soit un...
University for all: making higher education more inclusive
From physical barriers such as narrow doorways and aisles, or the lack of automatic or push-button doors, to difficulties in accessing the right information about inclusive programmes offered by universities, students with disabilities aiming to attend higher...
Come fly with me
What can you tell us about yourself? I grew up in Geneva, passionate about volleyball, orienting myself to and investing myself full-time in the sport. This allowed me to move to the United States, where I played as a professional athlete. After a knee injury, I ended...
UNDIS: a framework for lasting, transformative change?
An inclusive society is one where all people, including persons with disabilities, can live with dignity, participate fully, and realise their potential. Persons with disabilities are first and foremost people, with the same rights and needs as anyone else. However,...
The future of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
In 2019, the United Nations adopted the UN Disability Inclusion Strategy. How do you assess the usefulness of this strategy? It is a logical step because the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) obviously applies to States and...
Towards an inclusive workplace at UNOG…
Most of us regularly check the e-mails and other texts we write for spelling or grammar mistakes before sending them, but how many of us use an accessibility checker to make sure that they can be read easily by colleagues who are blind? Do we know what pitfalls, such...
Genève se mobilise pour faciliter la vie des personnes en situation de handicap
Pour les personnes confrontées de manière durable à une fragilité ou à une limitation physique, sensorielle ou psychique, les activités à l’extérieur requièrent des efforts et nécessitent d’anticiper certaines difficultés. Exemples : y-a-t-il un parking à proximité ?...
The weaker sex? An exhibition on women and power at Morges castle
This, amongst others, was a legacy of the concept of “weaker sex” or “imbecillitas sexus”, derived from Roman law, literally meaning the weakness of female mental power, and had a lasting influence on the role assigned to women. Society severely limited female civil...
The UNESCO Courier publishes anthology of its most renowned contributors
It is a two-volume anthology of 58 articles selected from the Courier’s archive that showcase the magazine’s role as UNESCO’s window to the world and its contributions to the Organization’s laboratory of ideas. Highlighting the ‘thinkers’ (volume 1) and ‘creators’...
