Tag: Geneva

President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived in Geneva, Switzerland to participate in the World of Work Summit.

Digital migration is the conversion of the existing analogue format to a digital signal while maintaining the content, context, and structure of the record.

EXPLAINER: What is Digital Migration

by Bongisipho Magcaba

28 March 2022, 2:35 PM

On March 31, 2022, the South African government will finally switch off the analogue signal, which transmits TV audio and ...

Vials with Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca, Sputnik V and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine labels. An illustration picture taken March 19, 2021.

Top UN rights body calls for fair, affordable access to COVID-19 vaccines

23 March 2021, 9:14 PM

The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on Tuesday calling for equitable, affordable access to COVID-19 vaccines and ...

Myanmar citizens hold a flag as they protest against the military coup in front of the UN office in Bangkok, Thailand

Strike grips Myanmar, anti-coup protesters defy junta’s lethal warning

22 February 2021, 12:41 PM

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged Myanmar's military, which seized power three weeks ago, to halt repression and ...

China immediately notified WHO of the epidemic situation and shared the virus genome sequence at the earliest possible time says the country's health ministry

China defends early actions on COVID-19 after panel report

19 January 2021, 9:13 PM

China on Tuesday defended its early actions taken to fight the COVID-19 outbreak, saying that it immediately notified the World ...

Soldiers inspect a damaged Armenian military truck seized by Azerbaijan army during the fighting over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh near the city of Barda, Azerbaijan October 7, 2020.

France, US and Russia to meet on Nagorno-Karabakh amid fears of regional war

7 October 2020, 9:07 PM

France, the United States and Russia will step up efforts to end fighting between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces in ...

Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng now holds the title of Special Rapporteur on the Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health.

Human Rights Council appoints Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng leading global expert on health

17 July 2020, 9:16 PM

South African women's rights and sexual and reproductive health specialist Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng has been confirmed as a leading global ...

The outlook for the global labour market in the second half of 2020 is "highly uncertain"

COVID-19 pandemic plunges working world into crisis – ILO

8 July 2020, 11:36 AM

Global leaders called for a comprehensive approach to counter the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, which International Labour Organization chief ...

Explainer: Who’s WHO? The World Health Organization under scrutiny

16 April 2020, 7:00 PM

The World Health Organization (WHO) is in the spotlight as it champions the global fight against the new coronavirus but ...

Police try to protect a woman wearing a dress adorned with pictures of Cameroon President Paul Biya being manhandled by the crowd during a protest of Cameroonian nationals living in various European countries.

Swiss police arrest Cameroon president’s security staff over journalist attack

by Raymond Akamby

3 July 2019, 5:38 PM

Swiss police said Wednesday they had arrested six members of the Cameroonian president's security staff over an attack on a ...

UN rights office urges Sudan to cooperate with ICC on Bashir case

12 April 2019, 11:42 AM

The United Nations human rights office called on Sudan on Friday to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which ...

Russia, Iran, Turkey meet, seeking deal on new Syria constitution body

18 December 2018, 2:49 PM

Russia, Iran and Turkey are nearing agreement on the composition of a Syria committee that could pave the way for ...

Ramaphosa outlines his work at ILO

16 November 2018, 5:50 PM

10 September 2018, 5:50 AM

President Cyril Ramaphosa is at the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland on the last leg of his European tour.

Former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet speaks from her office at the Palais Wilson on her first day as new United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights

All eyes on Bachelet for first speech as UN rights chief

by Raymond Akamby

New UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet will give a widely anticipated speech Monday, with many eager for clues to how ...

A Venezuelan paramedic (L) prepares to distribute donated medicines at an improvised camp by the bus terminal in the north of Quito

Half million Venezuelans fleeing crisis enter Ecuador

by Sinentlahla Vulindlu

10 August 2018, 5:31 PM

More than half a million Venezuelans have crossed into Ecuador this year, the UN said on Friday, after Quito declared ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa is the co-chair of the Global Commission on the Future of Work.

Ramaphosa heads to Geneva for Global Commission

by Lerato Matlala

14 May 2018, 8:50 PM

President Cyril Ramaphosa will be heading to Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday to kick-off his duties as co-chair of the Global ...

Rodrigo Duterte attacked the ICC's preliminary examination into his anti-narcotics campaign saying it was "unduly and maliciously created".

Duterte moves to quit International Criminal Court

by Thato Moeti

14 March 2018, 11:10 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday he was pulling the Philippines out of the treaty underpinning the International Criminal Court, ...

Lack of funds had already forced aid workers to halve food aid and in some places stop it completely. Picture:UNHCR

Central African Republic children starve as aid workers flee fighting

by Reuters

17 October 2017, 8:49 PM

Children are starving to death in Central African Republic because violence has forced aid workers to pull out, the United ...

Migrants are traded for between $200 and $500 and are held on average for two or three months Picture:REUTERS

Migrants traded in “slave markets” in Libya, U.N. agency says

by Reuters

11 April 2017, 3:48 PM