Last autumn Pamela Coke-Hamilton took over as ITC’s Executive Director. She sat down with UN Today to talk about growing up in Jamaica, her different jobs, how Geneva...
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Running Switzerland during Covid
Just finished her second non-consecutive term as President of the Swiss Confederation. We spoke to Simonetta Sommaruga ................................. Born in Zug....
SHP: A real estate gamble that went wrong
The new H building, with its clean lines and purportedly collaborative open space, was meant to be the crowning glory of the almost-$1 billion Strategic Heritage Plan....
Would open-space and COVID-19 agree to live together in 2021?
As part of the renovation of the Palais des Nations, staff at UNOG are due to move to the new H building which features open space and hot-desking, during the first...
David Mc Cuaig, Director of the Strategic Heritage Plan (SHP), UNOG
The new H building features open space. Since the Covid-19 outbreak, many studies were published putting into question the future of open space. How is this impacting...
Would you want to work in the UN of the future?
Last month, a report from a management task force on the future of work at the UN caused considerable consternation among staff with a proposal for new, agile staff...
Can diplomacy work online?
This article contains some brief observations, based mainly on recent formal and informal meetings that I serviced and/or attended at the Palais des Nations, as well as...
What is it like to interpret a remote meeting?
Teamwork is turning it into a success, but what do interpreters make of Remote Simultaneous Interpretation (RSI)? Before the pandemic, interpreters’ experience of RSI...
Fighting racism internationally starts with confronting racism internally
Leadership Starts at Home The world desperately needs UN leadership to combat systemic racism. That cannot happen without tackling the systemic racism within the...
How Racist Is the UN?
Back in June, Antonio Guterres told a staff townhall that “if racism exists anywhere, it also exists in the UN.” But how racist is the UN? And in an international...