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Albert Thomas : Le centenaire du Bureau international du travail

Ralph Waldo Emerson, le philosophe de la Nouvelle Angleterre a écrit qu’ « une institution n’est que l’ombre allongée d’un homme ». C’est assurément le cas pour l’Organisation internationale du Travail (OIT) dont le centenaire a été célébré à Genève au début de sa conférence annuelle tenue en mai 2019. Albert Thomas, premier Directeur général de l’OIT, a mis en place presque tous les éléments qui ont été développés par la suite.

vendredi 25 décembre 2020

The empty chair, but Democratic Vistas radiate

The chair for Liu Xiaobo was empty at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony on 10 December 2010, and there were a few other empty chairs of ambassadors from countries that had been constantly warned by Chinese emissaries that attendance at the ceremony would be considered an unfriendly act. However the (…)

lundi 13 décembre 2010

The OSCE looks East

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) held its first Summit Review Conference in 11 years on 1-2 December 2010. Without surprise, the leaders of the 56 member states reaffirmed all the common values and urged that “increased efforts should be made to resolve existing (…)

jeudi 9 décembre 2010

Anti-Roma Measures Backfire

In a transparently political measure to please the anti-immigration Right - basically the voters of the National Front - President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and his Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux from August on have carried out a high profile crackdown on Gypsy camps calling them “sources of (…)

samedi 18 septembre 2010

The NPT Review : Business as Usual Now, Disarmament Perhaps Later

The Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) has Article VIII calling for a review conference every five years to see how the terms of the Treaty are being respected and its goals promoted. As this Treaty, a cornerstone of arms control efforts, came into force in 1970, there has (…)

dimanche 20 juin 2010

The Right not to Kill : May 15th is Conscientious Objector Day

« Today in the face of what seems to be a global increase in violence and resort to war, conscientious objectors are increasingly regarded as proverbial ‘canaries in the coalmine’. Like the small birds that warn coalminers when poisonous gasses are threatening their lives, these brave people (…)

samedi 15 mai 2010

Nuclear Security Summit : A Good Time Was Had By All

« I believe strongly that the problems of the 21st century cannot be solved by any one nation acting in isolation. They must be solved by all of us coming together. » President Barack Obama, 13th April 2010 There has always been a desire on the part of governments to have a monopoly of heavy (…)

dimanche 18 avril 2010

START Signing in Prague Does Not Mask a Nuclear-Weapon World

The signing on 8 April 2010 of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Prague by Presidents Barack Obama and Dimitri Medvedev is a modest but symbolic step to signal better US-Russian relations. Prague was chosen for its symbolism, being the city where a year ago President Obama had (…)

mardi 6 avril 2010

Interdiction des Bombes à fragmentation : une lueur dans l’obscurité des conflits

Par la combinaison remarquable de pressions émanant de la société civile et du leadership d’un petit nombre d’états progressistes, une interdiction stricte relative à l’utilisation, la production et le stockage des bombes à fragmentations, entrera en vigueur le 1er août 2010, alors que 30 états (…)

jeudi 25 mars 2010

Banning Cluster Bombs : Light in the Darkness of Conflicts

In a remarkable combination of civil society pressure and leadership from a small number of progressive States, a strong ban on the use, manufacture, and stocking of cluster bombs will come into force on 1 August 2010 now that 30 States have ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions. The (…)

dimanche 14 mars 2010

March 8:International Day of Women : Women as Peacemakers

’’It is only when women start to organize in large numbers that we become a political force, and begin to move towards the possibility of a truly democratic society in which every human being can be brave, responsible, thinking and diligent in the struggle to live at once freely and (…)

lundi 8 mars 2010

Afghanistan - London : Just 20 Years Late

On 28 January 2010, over 60 Foreign Ministers of States concerned by Afghanistan met for one day in London to consider the next steps to lower the intensity of the conflict in Afghanistan and to bring greater stability to the region. One could have suggested another setting for the conference (…)

mercredi 10 février 2010

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