GLOBAL AFFAIRS
Amidst economic and geopolitical turmoil, we have been ignoring the threats to our ecosystems due to our destructive actions. One of such existential threats to humanity is the turmoil in our Ocean Ecosystems. The concern? - Marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean of...
Les Nations unies déclarent le 27 juin Journée internationale des micro, petites et moyennes entreprises. Que représente spécifiquement cette journée pour la CCIG ? Le tissu économique suisse est constitué à 89% de PME de moins de 10 collaborateurs ; cette proportion...
NGOs play a key role in the march towards the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030. The seventeen SDGs and the development agenda being an interwoven process, all concerned stakeholders must work together in synergy and target grassroots and ground...
# Food and shelter assistance for 266,800+ asylum seekers. # Targeted protection assistance for 73,500+ refugees. # A plan ready to support 1.2M people with protection assistance and 1.5M essential items. This has been the UNHCR’s impact to reduce the countless...
Nine member states from four continents, economically and culturally diverse, with differing levels of development. Yet the CPLP’s ties span centuries, and a common language and will to cooperate make this young community a unique success in solidarity. Speaking as...
What in your view are some of the major challenges in tackling racism and racial discrimination in the world today? There are several: 1. The failure to learn from past tragedies that were rooted in racism and racial discrimination (enslavement, apartheid, world wars,...
It’s 5pm on a typical workday in 2023, and you’ve just finished your work. It’s one of the days you work from home and skip the commute to the office: this leaves you plenty of time for cooking, and you look forward to fixing a delicious ratatouille. You will use the...
“Google Search is fundamentally an online rankings system,” that’s what the Editor of US News Best Colleges suggested to me recently. And indeed, Google says much the same itself: they process “hundreds of billions of webpages in our Search index to find the most...
Peter McGarry, a Geneva-based hedge fund manager and extreme runner, was inspired enough by his daughter’s passion for saving the environment that he set up The Earth Foundation in 2020 with the goal to “inspire, educate, mentor and empower students with innovative...
GLOBAL AFFAIRS
# Food and shelter assistance for 266,800+ asylum seekers. # Targeted protection assistance for 73,500+ refugees. # A plan ready to support 1.2M people with protection assistance and 1.5M essential items. This has been the UNHCR’s impact to reduce the countless...
Nine member states from four continents, economically and culturally diverse, with differing levels of development. Yet the CPLP’s ties span centuries, and a common language and will to cooperate make this young community a unique success in solidarity. Speaking as...
What in your view are some of the major challenges in tackling racism and racial discrimination in the world today? There are several: 1. The failure to learn from past tragedies that were rooted in racism and racial discrimination (enslavement, apartheid, world wars,...
It’s 5pm on a typical workday in 2023, and you’ve just finished your work. It’s one of the days you work from home and skip the commute to the office: this leaves you plenty of time for cooking, and you look forward to fixing a delicious ratatouille. You will use the...
“Google Search is fundamentally an online rankings system,” that’s what the Editor of US News Best Colleges suggested to me recently. And indeed, Google says much the same itself: they process “hundreds of billions of webpages in our Search index to find the most...
Peter McGarry, a Geneva-based hedge fund manager and extreme runner, was inspired enough by his daughter’s passion for saving the environment that he set up The Earth Foundation in 2020 with the goal to “inspire, educate, mentor and empower students with innovative...
Water for all: a basic need for our societies On 22 March we celebrate World Water Day. Water is the most basic need of humans, but also of plants and animals: we cannot survive without water. Access to water and sanitation are recognized as human rights. However,...
Unity, especially in times of crisis, has been strongly linked to the success of dialogue. Interfaith dialogue is especially important when we consider that the vast majority of the global population is affiliated with faith in one form or another. Such a significant...
Santiago Bustamante Villa is a young Colombian who, at 19, made his dream come true by getting into Stanford University, one of the world’s most prestigious institutions. While many students would settle in for the challenges of student life, Santiago instead decided...
Maps allow us to see the world from the comfort of our own homes, but how we understand what we see on a map depends on where we call home. Place remains at the heart of establishing the national identities which come together to make up the United Nations. Where we...
