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Exclusive: China Seeks to Quash Dissent Ahead UN Review of Its Human Rights Record

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The UN in Geneva: Please Leave the Lights Off

The UN is politically embattled these days. It is also seriously cash-strapped. The Palais des Nations will shut down from December 20 and reopen on January 7 in a cost-saving effort to offset increased electricity costs unaccounted for in its regular budget for 2023. “During that period, staff members will

UN puts a price on media access

“The UN is telling us that only money can allow coverage of UN and UN agencies activities,” one reporter observes. “This runs completely against the UN General Assembly’s resolutions.”

#119 The G|O Briefing, November 24, 2022

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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.

Backstage with the UN correspondents

Breaking an exclusive story amid a consistently massive output of embargoed press releases and communications of all sorts is often mission impossible, especially since the pandemic has dramatically decreased face-to-face encounters. It’s the kind of feat that arouses envy within the clique.

#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

Building permanent support for UN mandated investigations

Late this afternoon of May 19, in Room XXIII of the Palais des Nations in Geneva—a cool respite from the brutal outside heat—Stephen Rapp, former US Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice and former prosecutor in Rwanda and Sierra Leone, could not resist sharing a joke before

#98 The G|O Briefing, May 19, 2022

A new report offers models to strengthen the UN's investigative capacity - A tighter relationship between China and Russia

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