Sound of Freedom, Liberating Innocence: A Heroic Journey Against Sex Trafficking
“Sound of Freedom” is a 2023 movie based on the true story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent who quits his job to rescue children from global sex…
China: Seminar Explores Contemporary Development of Law of Armed Conflict at Sea
Shanghai (ICRC) – The Regional Delegation for East Asia of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Tongji University Law School co-organized a seminar on the Contemporary Development…
From park to park with the Municipal Libraries | City of Geneva
The librarians, mediators and cultural mediators, make you enjoy their rich collections through outdoor activities designed in connection with the history of the park and the district, between art and…
ILO calls on G20 for international solidarity to close the global decent work divide
Shri Bhupender Yadav, Minister of Labour and Employment, India with ILO Director-General Gilbert F. Houngbo © Ministry of Labour and Employment India GENEVA (ILO News) – The ILO Director-General, Gilbert…
Sudan: Displacement soars amid shrinking humanitarian access
“We’ve already seen over 560,000 people crossing into neighbouring countries… nearly two million people displaced internally,” said Raouf Mazou, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, following a visit to Sudan.…
South Sudan: ICRC inaugurates new Physical Rehabilitation Centre in Wau
The centre replaces a facility in Wau that the ICRC has supported since 2014. The new PRC, which was completed at the end of last year, is already fully operational…
Children forcibly separated from mothers at Syria’s Al Hol, warns top rights expert
Fionnuala Ni Aolain, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, is the first independent rights expert to gain access to…
A marble work by the sculptor Imhof resurfaces in Saint Antoine | City of Geneva
In March 2023, a visit to the building revealed a sculpture of Swiss artist Heinrich-Maximilian Imhof. Born in 1795 in Bürglen (UR), he trained in Stuttgart with Johann Heinrich Dannecker…
Improve Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to meet skills and labour mismatch
© ILO GENEVA (ILO News) – Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) systems in many low- and middle-income countries do not match skills and labour market needs and are…
Northeastern Nigeria: malnourished children fighting for their lives
The UN’s top humanitarian official in the country Matthias Schmale informed that severe hunger is affecting 4.3 million people in Nigeria’s Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states. The number of children…