“Positive Nutrition: Traditional Diets as a Model for a Healthy Life” (Geneva, 6 June 2019)
The Permament Mission of Italy to the International Organizations in Geneva organized today, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, a seminar titled “Positive Nutrition: Traditional Diets as a Model for a Healthy Life”. Experts and nutritionists from different continents took part to the event: – Dennis Bieris, Professor of Pediatrics and Director at the […]
Read moreMeeting of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Claudia Del Re, with the Director General of the International Organization for Migrations
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Prof. Emanuela Claudia Del re, met today with the Director General of the International Organization for Migration, Antonio Vitorino. Among the topics discussed, the cooperation with Italy in migratory flows management, with a focus on the situation in crisis areas. Director Vitorino put the accent on […]
Read moreUN letter on migration policies
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, confirms having received from the Italian Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office at Geneva a letter signed by six Special Procedures Mandate Holders of the United Nations Human Rights Council. With reference to the news circulated, the Foreign Ministry specifies that the letter […]
Read more72nd World Health Assembly (Geneva, 20-28 May 2019)
The 72nd World Health Assembly, the main WHO Governing Body, starts today in Geneva, bringing at the Palais des Nations, until next 28 May, delegations of the 194 Member States. The World Health Assembly is a unique and privileged forum, at the international level, of dialogue and decision-making on the main global health issues. The […]
Read moreThe Italian Deputy Minister for Infrastructures and Transports, Edoardo Rixi, at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva
The Italian Deputy Minister for Infrastructures and Transports, Edoardo Rixi, today is in Geneva for the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (Resilience Dividend: Towards Sustainable and Inclusive Societies), organized by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). The Deputy Minister spoke at the high-level dialogue on “Progress made in implementing sendai framework – global and […]
Read moreWHO – Press release on the draft document “WHO guiding principles and framework manual for front-of-pack labelling for promoting healthy diets”
The Permanent Mission of Italy to the International Organizations in Geneva expresses concern over the content of the draft document titled “WHO guiding principles and framework manual for front-of-pack labelling for promoting healthy diets” and about the modalities of its drafting and early circulation. Italy has been repeatedly asking for more transparency from WHO’s side […]
Read moreWIPO Roving Seminar on the services and initiatives in the field of Industrial Property (Treviso, 10 aprile)
The World Intellectual Property Organiazation (WIPO www.wipo.int) and the Directorate General for the Fight against Counterfeiting – UIBM, in partnership with T2i (trasferimento tecnologico e innovazione) and CCIAA Treviso-Belluno-Dolomiti, organized last 10 April the 6th edition of the free “Roving Seminar on WIPO Services and Initiatives”. The event took place at CCIAA Treviso-Belluno-Dolomiti both in Italian and […]
Read moreThe Foreign Ministry acts to protect displaced persons and refugees in Libya, Tunisia and Ethiopia with new contributions to the UNHCR
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation approved, with resources from the Africa Fund, new financial contributions worth 7 million Euro towards the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), for projects and assistance to IDPs and refugees in Lybia, Tunisia and Ethiopia. In Lybia, in consideration of the risks civil population, […]
Read moreGeneva Launch Event of the EAT-Lancet Commission on “Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems”
The Geneva Launch of the EAT Lancet Commission Report on “Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems” took place today at the Palais des Nations. Co-sponsoring of the event from the World Health Organization, initially announced, was lately withdrawn. However, the Director of WHO’s Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, Dr. Francesco Branca, took part […]
Read morePress release on the launch of the EAT-Lancet Commission Report on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems (Geneva, 28 March 2019)
Next March 28th, a presentation of the EAT-Lancet Commission Report on “Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems” will take place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, sponsored by the World Health Organization. We believe that the World Health Organization should not have anything to do with this initiative, and here we are explaining why. […]
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