Greytalks

Congo : Mission impossible ? The evolution of the UN Mission in DRC.

Special guest : Leila Zerrougui, Former SG Special Representative and Head of the UN Stabilisation Mission in DRC (MONUSCO). Presenter: Ted Folke, Former Head of UN TV in DRC. 2 June 2021

Integrity of elections, human rights and international cooperation

What is electoral integrity and how to achieve it? What is the role of UN observation missions and the Kofi Annan Foundation?

Dong Nguyen Huu, Former UN Senior Political Officer and former member of UN Observation Missions. Declan O’Brien, Programme Elections and DemocracCoordinator, Kofi Annan Foundation. 25 January 2021

The typically atypical life and work of women on the international scene.

An intergenerational exchange moderated by Bertrand Louis, former Swiss Ambassador, with Adriane Razafindradito, MSc, International Economics, Junior Consultant; Federica Bertacchini, MA, International Consultant, Communications and Project Management; Manuela Tortora and Cécile Molinier, former UN Officials, Members of Greycells.12 April 2021.

Defending human rights at the multilateral level

Practitioners’ perspective on political, economic and social rights.

Adrien-Claude Zoller, President, Geneva for Human Rights-Global Training. Todd Howland, Chief, Development, Economic and Social Rights Branch, UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights. 5 November 2021

Genocides and crimes against humanity

Lessons from the Nuremberg trial for the XXIst century. Have we learned anything?

Philippe Sands, academic and writer, Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London. Yves Beigbeder, writer, former WHO official, former participant at the Nuremberg tribunal. 22 November 2021.

Imagine ALL the people having access to good, clean and fair food. How Slow Food is changing our relationship to food – A Human Right !

Edie Mukiibi, Vice President, Slow Food International, and President, Slow Food Uganda; Nina Wolff, President, Slow Food Germany; Malte Reshöft, Thematic Advisor for Sustainable Food and Inclusive Market System, Swiss Church Aid. 22 February 2022

Is the war in Ukraine a threat to the survival or relevance of the UN? A replay of the League of Nations in the 1930s?

Rubens Ricupero, UNCTAD 5th Secretary General. 9 May 2022

New Eco-Social Contract. The 20th century social contract is broken. Where to next ?

Paul Ladd, Director, UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD); Kari Tapiola, Former Deputy Director-General, ILO. 29 September 2022

Women as Peace Builders.

Vivian Silver, Social change work activist, Women Wage Peace; Marwa Hammad, Fundraising Coordinator for the Palestinian peace organisation Women of the Sun; Hyam Tannous, Arab Christian Counselor and Guidance Therapist, Women Wage Peace. 18 October 2022

Myanmar’s Growing Crisi. What can the international community do?

Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun, Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the UN, Representative of the former democratic government; Nyein Chan May, German Solidarity with Myanmar Democracy; Kerstin Duell, Scientist, Goethe University, Frankfurt. 25 May 2023

That Plan from Rio: The Promise and Limits of Multilateral Climate Governance.

Prof. Franz Baumann, former UN Assistant Secretary-General, President Elect of the Academic Council on the UN system. 20 September 2023

Satire in International Relations: the Heritage of Derso & Kelen, 1922-1950

Stefan Slater and David Macfadyen, authors of ‘The Political Cartoons of Derso & Kelen, Years of Hope and Despair’. Moderator: Isabelle Falconnier, Director, Swiss Press Club. 1 February 2024

L’autre Genève internationale : la contribution des étrangers à l’histoire de Genève.

Yudit Kiss, écrivaine, auteure de « Genève Mundi, Six balades pour découvrir les empreintes du monde dans la ville ». 21 mars 2024.