By pkullander on
Thursday, January 29, 2009
| DAVOS,Switzerland,
Kofi Annan, President of the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, announced here today a global partnership with French advertising group Havas’s agency EURO RSCG Worldwide. EURO RSCG will drive the communications of the Forum’s global global campaign for climate justice centred on the ongoing United Nations negotiations for a post-Kyoto climate agreement, which conclude in December this year.
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By pkullander on
Thursday, October 09, 2008
| GENEVA, 09 October 2008 – The Global Humanitarian Forum, presided over by Kofi Annan, has the pleasure to announce the decision of the foundation board of the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation of 23 September 2008 to support the activities of the Forum with the sum of CHF 500'000.- for 2008 and the same amount for 2009. |
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By pkullander on
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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GENEVA, 25 June 2008 – Kofi Annan said today at the first annual meeting of the Global Humanitarian Forum, which he presides, that a global alliance for climate justice is a necessity. Annan, joined by some 300 participants agreed to support efforts to establish to establish climate justice as the guiding principle for a post-Kyoto global climate agreement.
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By pkullander on
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
| GENEVA, June 24 - The human face of climate change was personified by five young people taking the stage at the Annual Meeting with passionate and sometimes tearful accounts of how climate change had affected their communities. The audience was so moved that they gave the speakers a standing ovation. |
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By pkullander on
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
| GENEVA, June 24 2008 - Climate change is very real and it is happening now. These were the words Kofi Annan, President of the Global Humanitarian Forum, used to greet participants at the organisation’s first annual meeting. Those present included heads of states, government ministers, CEOs of major corporations, international agencies, global financiers and journalists. |
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By pkullander on
Monday, June 23, 2008
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GENEVA, 23 June 2008 - Thirteen testimonies, five nations: videos of encounters with these individuals show that climate change is already having a profound and negative impact on people’s lives.
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By pkullander on
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
GENEVA, Switzerland, 10 June – In the aftermath of Myanmar’s Cyclone Nargis and in view of the ongoing global food crisis, the Forum’s President Kofi Annan has called together more than 200
leaders from all sectors of society worldwide to urgently address what he calls “the human face of climate change"...”: the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations affected by increasingly violent storms, drought and floods. |
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By pkullander on
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
| GENEVA, Switzerland, 15 January 2008 – The Foundation Board has nominated Ambassador Walter Fust as the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Humanitarian Forum. |
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By pkullander on
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
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DUBAI, 21 November 2007 – On 21 November 2007 in Dubai, Her Royal Highness Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, a Board Member of the Global Humanitarian Forum and UN Messenger for Peace and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at the Columbia University, convened with the Global Humanitarian Forum a meeting on an urgent topic of global significance: “The Drylands Challenges.”
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By pkullander on
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
| GENEVA, Switzerland, 17 October 2007 – Today former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, launched the Global Humanitarian Forum. The launch event was attended by some three hundred representatives of governments; intergovernmental, non-governmental and civil society organizations; as well as academia and the business community. |
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