Category: On Display

Geneva sustainability week 2025, March 17-21

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As Spring is approaching, so comes the yearly Sustainability Week, along with a small display of selected titles in the entrance of the Library. The environment and sustainable development belong to the main topics covered by the Library over the past decades. Our dedicated collection is characterised by a large scope of subjects and perspectives of study, covering topics like climate change, natural resources and conflict, among others.

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Exploring gender equality: our collections as a source of inspiration

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The month of March is all about women and diversity, with International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8 and Geneva’s Gender Equality Week from March 4 to 14. Their mission is to raise awareness and actively advocate for a more inclusive and gender equitable world. 

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22nd UNESCO Week of Sound

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Sound is all around us. It carries meaning through speech, and emotion through tone and music. The invention of radio, more than a century ago, changed the world, and the Internet gave this medium a new form through podcasts. Social science researchers, historians and anthropologists also use sound and recordings as research data or as the subject of their research, whether for oral histories or qualitative analysis.

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World AIDS day, December 1

A red ribbon with hands over a world map
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World AIDS day is organised every year to raise awareness of the challenges faced by people living with this disease, remember those who lost their lives and be aware that in 2023, there were 39.9 million people living with HIV (https://aidsinfo.unaids.org/). Here is a selection of titles that can bring you to better understand the origins and issues faced by people living with AIDS. 

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