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International Geneva’s continued love affair with FIFA
“The leadership of football does not answer to the court of public opinion; it responds to its own constituency. Its leaders depend for their survival on those whom they ought to reform; power in FIFA is a political cartel."
#143 THE G|O BRIEFING, JUNE 22, 2023
Proposal for a Global Health Threats Council has Geneva debating | Overwhelmed and underfunded human rights system may not be able to deliver on its mission | International Red Cross in Crisis—what would Dunant say?
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An overwhelmed, overstretched, ignored, and under-financed human rights system is being confronted with a stark reality: it may not be able to deliver on its mission
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China resumes its construction of the future, amid debt, dilemma, and a new diplomatic strategy
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#139 THE G|O BRIEFING, MAY 25, 2023
Bold WHO report charts new economic path to deliver “health for all” | Imperiled islands | New Swiss human rights body | Quick links
HRC agrees fact-finding mission to investigate Tehran's suppression of protests following Mahsa Amini's death
In opening the meeting, UN human rights chief Volker Turk told the Council that 14,000 people had been arrested and that “hundreds of university students have been summoned for questioning, threatened or suspended and barred from entering university campuses.”
#119 The G|O Briefing, November 24, 2022
Human rights defenders cheer UN vote | Stop bothering us, UN tells the press | Alaa Abd El-Fattah is still in jail. His sister talks to The G|O |
#116 The G|O Briefing, November 3, 2022
Moving International Geneva to Ukraine | Brazil back on the world stage | UN human rights chief speaks, as does ILO boss | Happy Birthday G|O!
Two firsts in a week
On Wednesday (November 2), the newly-installed United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk held his first briefing before the press. And on Monday (October 31), Gilbert Houngbo, the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) new boss, gave his first speech to the organization’s governing body, during which Houngbo