The large René Cassin square in front of the U.N’s European headquarters in Geneva now features a fitting tribute to Jeanne Hersch, the great human rights theorist and founding director of UNESCO’s philosophy division, as part of a University of Geneva series of exhibits honoring the city’s illustrious thinkers. ...
... Sarajevo, Tuzla, Bihac, Srebrenica, Zepa and Gorazde. * July 30: Preliminary agreement reached in Geneva for creating three states in Bosnia for Muslims, Croats, Serbs. Talks collapse after Serbs violate cease-fire. * Feb. 5, 1994: More than 60 people killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell slams ...
Geneva- The musician Prince will perform two shows to close the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 18, news report said Friday. The festival has nearly 100 acts lined about for the two weeks of concerts, opening Friday evening. ...Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper (subscribe)Explore ...
... consideration will culminate in the 2009 Annual Ministerial Review, which convenes next week in Geneva. So controversial is the topic of “services” in the context of “reproductive health” that the usually impenetrable negotiating bloc of the 27 member European Union has imploded with Malta, Poland and Ireland splitting ...
Geneva - HSBC Private Bank in Geneva last year reportedly sent out a note informing managers that they should request permission from clients investing in regulated markets, and alert them to having to waive Switzerland's banking secrecy provisions. ...Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper (...
02 Jul 2009 17:23:20 GMT Source: Reuters * Seizure illegal, Gaza blockade "crime against humanity"-UN * Israel's U.N. envoy rejects charges By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, July 2 (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights investigator on Thursday called Israel's seizure of a ship carrying relief aid for the Gaza Strip ...
... Team Chief mediator Kofi Annan’s meeting with Kenya’s delegation on post-election violence in Geneva was inconclusive as he asked them to meet International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Louis Moreno Ocampo first. The news filtered along with revelation the Cabinet already is toying with a "Third Option’, which ...
Geneva - The global credit markets for trade facilitation are still tied up as larger economies pull their investments out of the developing world, creating shortages of the finance needed to carry out deals, according to a report by World Trade Orga...Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper ...
... crime " sound? Or "on-going violations of international law?" (Articles 33 and 55 of the Fourth Geneva Convention , to be exact.) Last word to Gideon Levy : The mass experiment on human beings has failed miserably; two years is enough time to determine this. Not one of ...
Geneva - The World Trade Organization has downgraded its forecast for the full year and now believes developed economies will experience the largest contraction in trade, with exports to fall by 14 per cent, while developing economies' will see decli...Source : The Earth Times Online Newspaper (...