A brief overview of the work of some of the Geneva-based UN organisations and their achievements at the 80th anniversary of the United Nations on 22 September 2025
The new UNHCR report provides insights into global trends in 2024. With 123.3 mio. people, there were 6% more forcibly displaced than in 2023. Sudan is particularly hard-hit.
Despite ongoing geopolitical tensions, the 78th World Health Assembly was able to adopt key health policy projects with potential for future generations.
With the successful conclusion of negotiations on the WHO Pandemic Agreement, the international community has taken a decisive step toward a stronger global health architecture.
With only five official negotiation days left before the World Health Assembly (WHA) in May—where the agreement is set to be adopted—delegations are under immense time pressure.
Freedom, justice and solidarity are the basic principles underlying the work of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS). The KAS is a political foundation, closely associated with the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).
Multipod: WHO macht Fortschritte bei internationalen Gesundheitsvorschriften
Die Covid-Pandemie hat auch auf internationaler Ebene Folgen. Erfahren Sie, wie die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) und ihre Mitgliedstaaten sich besser für die Zukunft wappnen.
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Statement
Norbert Lammert on the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
"Human rights are not laws of nature. [...], they must be protected & defended by people who take the claim to the inviolability of human dignity seriously".
Multipod: Review of Germany in the UPR
Multipod: Human rights protection starts at home. Germany in the UPR
On 9th November 2023, the United Nation's Human Rights Council discussed the human rights situation in Germany
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Genfreise
Geneva Security Debate zum Krieg in der Ukraine
Prof. Dr. Lammert, Botschafter Dr. Heusgen und Botschafter Greminger zu den Auswirkungen des Krieges in der Ukraine auf den Multilateralismus und die Weltordnung
Delegationsreise
Dialogprogramm des Arbeitskreises Globale Gesundheit der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Genf
Erfahren Sie mehr über die Delegationsreise zu aktuellen Herausforderungen im Bereich Globale Gesundheit vom 7-9. Juni
High-Level Commemoration and Policy Dialogue Marks Ten Years of Nansen Initiative Protection Agenda
Sarah Ultes
December 10, 2025
Event reports
U.S. Mission / Eric Bridiers / flickr / CC BY-ND 2.0
Antworten und Klarstellungen zu den Desinformationen rund um das Pandemieabkommen
Genfer Depesche
Andrea Ellen Ostheimer
November 19, 2025
Geneva Telegram
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Beyond Fragmentation: Policy Options for Digital Harmonization
Reflections from the second KAS-WISC Roundtable on Digital Trade
Keith Rockwell
October 6, 2025
Single title
The 80th Session of the UN General Assembly
Andrea Ellen Ostheimer, Cedric Amon
September 25, 2025
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UNHCR, 2024, Nicolò Filippo Rosso
Key insights from UNHCR’s new global trends report 2025
The "Geneva Telegram" explores events in Geneva-based multilateral organizations on a current topic. This time, the focus is on the new global trends report of the UNHCR.
During the 42th regular session of the Human Rights Council (9-27 September in Geneva) several very controversial votes took place, i.a. resolutions on Venezuela, Yemen and Syria. The maps below illustrare the voting behaviour of the current 47 members of the Human Rights Council. 25 of the overall 37 resolutions were agreed by consensus.
A brief overview of the work of some of the Geneva-based UN organisations and their achievements at the 80th anniversary of the United Nations on 22 September 2025