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Responding to events or setting the agenda? Behind the scenes with the UN spokespeople

From human rights to disarmament and development, UNIS crystallizes many of the UN’s key messages in Geneva thanks to its privileged location and extended network of UN bodies.

#111 THE G|O Briefing, September 29, 2022

WESTERN RELIEF AFTER ITU VOTE | ANXIETY AT CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT |SPEAKING FOR THE UN | AUROCRACIES NEVER COLLAPSE NICELY | FIFA AND WTO! FOUL

#110 The G|O Briefing, September 22, 2022

AT ITU, THE ELECTION THAT MIGHT DECIDE THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET - POST COVID, WILL THE PALAIS EVER GO BACK TO NORMAL? - BACKSTAGE WITH THE UN PRESS

Adjusted to hybrid working and afflicted by vaccine hesitancy, will the Palais ever go back to normal?

In 2021, just over 5,000 meetings were held, out of which around 2,300 were in person and 2,400 in a hybrid format. Geneva came close to a shut-down.

The precarious reality of the UN's external employees

They represent nearly half of the UN’s global workforce, according to the latest figures available (published in a 2014 Joint Inspection Unit report), but Geneva’s UN consultants and individual contractors continue to suffer precarious employment conditions. A freshly invigorated association has decided to address the issue. The Consultants

#102 The G|O Briefing, June 23, 2022

Fighting for better working conditions for the UN’s outside workforce - WTO: Yes it can!

UN audit warns of possible overrunning costs in the renovation of the UN in Geneva

The Strategic Heritage Plan (SHP), the ongoing renovation of the UN Geneva compound in Geneva, might run over its CHF 836,500,000 approved budget, reveals a December 2021 audit by the Office of Internal Oversight Services, Internal Audit Division (OIOS). The eleven-page document indicates that close to CHF 35

#84, The G|O Briefing, February 3, 2022

Audit warns of overrunning costs in Geneva UN renovation - Ukraine crisis forces Europe into introspection - Geneva's global digital footprint

Major tensions between the UN and a Geneva building company

An investigation by the Geneva Observer exposes the details of a dispute between the UN and the Swiss construction giant Implenia. A poisonous relationship between the UN and Implenia September 25, 2019: The UN releases its sixth progress report on the Strategic Heritage Plan (SHP) project, the UN renovation project

Dancing With the Virus. A whole new diplomatic ballet

The Palais des Nations will soon awake from the Covid-19 induced sedation it has been put under since March 16.

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