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The Geneva International Discussions (GID) are international talks to address the consequences of the 2008 Russo-Georgian War.They were launched in Geneva, Switzerland, in October 2008 and are co-chaired by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the European Union (EU), and the United Nations (UN), the Geneva process brings together representatives of the participants ...
Geneva International Model United Nations (abbreviated GIMUN) is a non-governmental Organization in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations since 2007. [2]
Geneva hosts the highest number of international organisations in the world. [1] Palais des Nations, the main building of the United Nations Office at Geneva WIPO headquarters in Geneva. This is a list of international organizations, UN programs and funds and other organizations based in Geneva, Switzerland. [2]
Dozens of dignitaries walked out of Russia's speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday in support of Ukraine. The delegates, including the ambassadors of France, Germany and ...
The Grand Council of Geneva (French: Grand Conseil de Genève) is the legislature of the canton of Geneva, in Switzerland. Geneva, styled as a 'Republic and Canton', has a unicameral legislature. The Grand Council was established in its present form and with 100 seats in 1842, [ 1 ] with members elected every four years.
The 1864 Geneva Convention, one of the earliest formulations of written international law. The concept of a peaceful community of nations had been proposed as early as 1795, when Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch [12] outlined the idea of a league of nations to control conflict and promote peace between states. [13]
The Allée des Nations, with the flags of the member countries The headquarters of the World Health Organization World Intellectual Property Organization headquarters. The United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG, French: Office des Nations Unies à Genève) in Geneva, Switzerland, is one of the four major offices [a] of the United Nations where numerous different UN agencies have a joint presence.
Niue is considered bound by New Zealand's ratification of Conventions I–IV in 1959 by the International Committee of the Red Cross [25] [26] on the basis of Niue's enactment of its own Geneva Conventions Act 1958. [27]