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Teamwork is turning it into a success, but what do interpreters make of Remote Simultaneous Interpretation (RSI)? Before the pandemic, interpreters’ experience of RSI was sporadic and invariably negative. It was often sprung on them unannounced and involved sound...
Leadership Starts at Home The world desperately needs UN leadership to combat systemic racism. That cannot happen without tackling the systemic racism within the organization. Systemic racism normalized inside institutions normalizes inequality and violence This...
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 organization, with staff from all quarters, what is racism? Let’s start back in 1945. The UN was founded...
Historienne de la littérature du XIXe siècle, Nicole Savy, a travaillé sur les stéréotypes racistes et antisémites. Elle a exercé des responsabilités nationales à la Ligue française des droits de l’Homme et du citoyen. Les comportements racistes sont-ils récents ou...
La Charte des Nations Unies a été signée il y a 75 ans, lors de la Conférence de San Francisco. Quand, venus des quatre coins du globe, les délégués se réunirent à cette fin au printemps 1945, le monde était bien différent de celui que nous connaissons...
On 21 April, the UN Association of the United Kingdom and the Together First campaign launched an important report by Mona Ali Khalil*, a respected public international lawyer and former Senior Legal Officer of the UN Office of the Legal Counsel.In the report, Mona...
Let us make no mistake: we are at an unprecedented defining moment in history which requests our utmost attention, whether we are citizens or leaders.We have all become forever interdependent First of all, the world population skyrocketed from 2.4 billion to over 7.8...
En 75 ans, la présence et le rôle des femmes au sein de l’ONU est toujours restée un thème central. Du combat de la première heure pour mentionner la différence de genre dans la Charte des Nations Unies, en passant par les années de promotion de la question, jusqu’à...
As the United Nations turns 75 years old in October, it is time for all of us to reflect on what the UN has and has not achieved over all those years. For many young people, the lack of payment of interns within the UN Secretariat is one of the failures that the UN...
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La villa fait toujours autant rêver les futurs propriétaires, à en croire une étude publiée en octobre dernier par Swiss Life. Parmi les familles actuellement en location, près de trois quarts envisagent d’acquérir un logement dans les dix prochaines années, 60 %...
Le bilan du marché immobilier en 2019 présageait des conditions optimales pour 2020 sur la région annécienne. Après un arrêt brutal, le déconfinement a dopé l’activité. Pour combien de temps ? En 2019, le marché immobilier du Grand Annecy suivait son rythme de...
Tout comme le Grand Annecy, le bassin genevois français a vu son activité immobilière reprendre de plus belle à l’heure du déconfinement.Porté par la vitalité de l’économie haut-savoyarde et, dans le sillage du Grand Annecy, le marché immobilier du bassin genevois...
From surviving to thriving For months, the soul of Geneva was hardly recognisable. The pandemic changed the character of cities – and with it our definition of normal. But how are cities bouncing back and shaping a ‘better normal’? Geneva, the multilateral centre,...
As UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, award-winning actor Michelle Yeoh has taken on another role to raise awareness and mobilize support for the Sustainable Development Goals, launched in 2016 to end poverty in all its forms by the year 2030. The Malaysian-born film star...
85 % of textiles end up in landfills or are incinerated, with most of these materials suitable for reuse. I have always had a keen interest in making fashion sustainable. It started as a teenager designing my own clothes and has stayed with me through my professional...
De nouveaux modes de consommation de la mode font du deuxième main une option moderne et engagée pour un shopping éthique sans modération. Sous diverses formes et depuis plusieurs années déjà, les rangs de la résistance à la « fast fashion » [Fast fashion : segment de...
For the Ethical Fashion Initiative (EFI), lifestyle choices impact livelihoods. In ten years, ten countries and three continents, EFI has proven that producing and exporting superb quality products is eminently compatible with a fair wage, decent working conditions,...
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Investing in inclusive and sustainable supply chains The future of work in the fashion industry looks increasingly uncertain: can we make it more sustainable and inclusive? Clothing is the ultimate expression of fashion. The garment industry and its supply...
