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Few cities have as rich a history as Geneva in the field of international cooperation. At the end of the 19th century, with the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva became the first center of multilateral diplomacy and remains, even today, its most active platform.
We invite you to discover this history through images from the archives of the international organizations based in Geneva.
1 March – 17th May 1865: First International Telegraph Conference in Paris
1871: Negotiating the future of telecommunications but where are the women?
1876: A Serbian Red Cross Ambulance assisting wounded in the Serbo-Turkish war
July 1906: Review Conference of the Geneva Convention at the Geneva Parliament Hall
1923: Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child
The League of Nations librarians in the 1920s
Archives of the World Council of Churches - 1952: International Missionary Conference in Willingen, Germany
The memory of World Council of Churches' Assemblies
1956: Three Hungarian women carrying all of their belongings and a child, arriving at the Eisenstadt Camp
22 July 1958: Foundation stone of the BIPRI building, the predecessor organization to WIPO
24-25 November 1959: record energy levels reached as CERN's Proton Synchrotron comes into operation
24 May 1962: Foundation stone of the WHO Headquarters
15–18 November 1977: The Governing Body of ILO adopts its Multinational Enterprise Declaration
8 May 1980: Smallpox is officially declared eradicated
June 1981: Mr. Lech Walesa at the 67th session of the International Labour Conference
World Refugee Day: Contemporary Commemoration based on a long tradition
15 April 1994 - Signature of the Final Act of the Uruguay Round at Marrakesh
1994: Rwanda Red Cross volunteers monitoring and assisting displaced populations during the Rwandan Civil War
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