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Ironically, Pisani, now 43 and living in London, was one of the experts who helped brand AIDS as a disease of poverty in the first place. In the late 1990s, she was in Geneva writing U.N. reports and begging for more AIDS funding. She tried to sell donor governments on the idea that smart prevention policies could stop other regions from falling into the kind of intractable crisis that unchecked AIDS had wrought in Africa. It worked, Pisani tells TIME, but not the way she intended: "We thought naively that if you said, 'If you don't do something...
...resolved within the year the abuse was reported. In many cases, the suspected abusers were either fired from the organization or repatriated back to their country of origin. "In general the U.N. as a whole has a zero tolerance policy on this," says Michael Klaus, spokesman for UNICEF in Geneva. "If these cases are proven, those responsible are immediately fired and sanctioned...
...thinks the problem of world food shortage can be solved by simply growing more food. With the world population expected to reach 9 billion by mid-century, which will stress every resource on Earth, we need to begin discussing some of the taboos around curbing population growth. John Noble, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
Walking along Rue de Cornavin, near Geneva's main train station, Nesim, a 34-year-old immigrant from Turkey, stops to look at a poster plastered to a wall. It shows five dark-colored hands grabbing a stack of Swiss passports above the phrase STOP MASS NATURALIZATIONS...
...says Christian Girard, a 19-year-old high school senior who is the vice-president of SVP's youth section in Geneva and supports the initiative. "Direct democracy has been a Swiss tradition for 150 years and we know how to vote responsibly," he says. "Naturalization must be a political, not an administrative process. And in a political process, people should be the ones to decide...