Juin 2051, 30 années se sont écoulées depuis mon départ à la retraite de l’ONU à Genève. J’ai envie de revoir les paons du Palais des Nations. Programmant l’itinéraire sur l’écran tactile de mon véhicule, je quitte mon lac de montagne. Malgré mon âge avancé le pilotage automatisé permet un trajet rapide, sûr et surtout [...]
June 2051, and 30 years have gone by since I retired from the UN in Geneva. I feel like going to see the peacocks again at the Palais des Nations. So I program the itinerary on my vehicle’s touch screen and leave my lake in the mountains. Despite my advanced age the automatic pilot makes [...]
PSYCHOSOCIAL RISKS AND WORK-RELATED STRESS “Improving employment and working conditions at global, national, and local levels, in particular to reduce exposure to work-related physical and psychosocial hazards, would help to reduce negative health effects of the environment in which people work1.” EVELYN G. KORTUM, WHO This contribution describes what psychosocial risks and [...]
STAFF ASSOCIATION Mirta Nordet, retired ophthalmologist Mirta Nordet and her teenage grandson Damian are very close. When his 69-year-old grandmother offered to teach him his first salsa steps, Damian immediately said yes. “I want my grandchildren to learn as much as possible about the culture and traditions of my home country Cuba,” says the [...]
CAREER DEVELOPMENT EVELINE COVENEY, COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER, STAFF ASSOCIATION WHO/HQ “Career development” and “performance management” are buzz words which beg the question “In reality, what do they mean?” More specifically, “Is it perhaps due to the present times of accountability and performance management that career development naturally comes to mind?” However, most staff, [...]
OR “AS LONG AS WE HAVE EACH OTHER, WE’LL NEVER RUN OUT OF PROBLEMS” IVAN BABOVIC Don’t get me wrong. I love technology. I have been ‘playing’ with it for over half of my life – from computers and applications, to cars, digital cameras, cell phones, tablets, navigation devices, all other sorts of [...]
THE HUMAN FACE OF WHO AS AT 2011 PATRICK ZUBER MONIKA ALTMAIER Through 146 country offices, 6 regional offices, 151 local offices and its headquarters, the current WHO staff composition illustrates the Organization’s diversity at all levels. An evolving workforce Its employees represent the primary mechanism for WHO as a knowledge- based [...]
CARLOS STREIJFFERT, EVELINE COVENEY Le Dr Athanase Hagengimana, originaire du Rwanda, a suivi une formation de médecin psychiatre. Par la suite, il a fait des études et recherches sur les causes des conflits, notamment à l’Université de Harvard aux Etats-Unis. Depuis trois ans, il est l’Ombudsman Principal au siège de l’OMS à Genève. [...]
JUSTICE FOR STAFF WITHIN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS WHO STAFF ASSOCIATION All people deserve justice, which includes staff of the United Nations (UN) and its technical agencies. But what type of justice? Note that the UN, its technical agencies and many other international organizations benefit from international immunity, a functional immunity designed to protect [...]
LE SITE WEB DE L’OMS YOUSEF ELBES CORINNE ROUSSEAU, OMS Cela fait maintenant plus de sept ans que l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé publie chaque jour sur son site web des informations en six langues (anglais, arabe, chinois, espagnol, français et russe). C’est le résultat d’une ferme volonté politique cherchant à établir une égalité entre [...]
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