Journalist Chitra Subramaniam is founder, CSD consulting, a Geneva-based company working at the crossroads of public health, development and communications. She worked with Gro Harlem Brundtland at the WHO

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Why don't you write about what it really was? People don't know what the issues are any more'', said the editor of this newspaper as we sp...
Mon, Jan 03, 2000
August 13,1998 00:00:00 AM
GENEVA, Aug 12: The United Nations conference on disarmament (CD) today set the broad parameters for negotiations to begin a worldwide ba...
Thu, Aug 13, 1998
July 14,1998 00:00:00 AM
The tragedy of Ballymoney in Northern Ireland didn't make it to the headlines. It was competing with the finals of the World Cup and the two...
Tue, Jul 14, 1998
July 11,1998 00:00:00 AM
GENEVA, July 10: The World Cup actually hides a bigger story about the rest of the world. That story is not about football -- it is about fl...
Sat, Jul 11, 1998
July 11,1998 00:00:00 AM
The images are desperately familiar. So is the West's fudge and fiddle. Old women in black winding their way through mountainous terrain. De...
Sat, Jul 11, 1998
July 06,1998 00:00:00 AM
GENEVA, July 5: Eight years ago, Germany unilaterally recognised its former wartime ally in former Yugoslavia giving it the status of a nati...
Mon, Jul 06, 1998
June 29,1998 00:00:00 AM
GENEVA, June 28: Hope and helplessness will clash for a week in this city as the only news coming out of the 12th World AIDS Conference will...
Mon, Jun 29, 1998
June 27,1998 00:00:00 AM
GENEVA, JUNE 26: In a piece entitled `Why I am Going to Beijing' carried by an American news magazine this week, United States President Bil...
Sat, Jun 27, 1998
June 18,1998 00:00:00 AM
Two years ago, same time, same place, it was the CTBT thing. In 1996 you couldn't get anywhere near the UN headquarters in Geneva without ha...
Thu, Jun 18, 1998
June 13,1998 00:00:00 AM
Foreign Ministers from the P5 are talking about Kashmir in London. Then China will subtly go around the corner and the P5 minus one plus two...
Sat, Jun 13, 1998
June 11,1998 00:00:00 AM
GENEVA, June 10: The Group of Eight industrialised countries meeting in London on Thursday to discuss India, Pakistan and Kashmir face an aw...
Thu, Jun 11, 1998
June 06,1998 00:00:00 AM
GENEVA, June 5: Foreign Ministers of the United States, France, Russia, Britain and China who met here on Thursday pinned a message on the w...
Sat, Jun 06, 1998
June 05,1998 00:00:00 AM
GENEVA, June 4: Condemning the nuclear tests carried by India and Pakistan, the Foreign Ministers from the five nuclear-weapon states today ...
Fri, Jun 05, 1998
June 04,1998 00:00:00 AM
GENEVA, JUNE 3: Top negotiators from China, United Kingdom, Russia, France and the United States - the five nuclear weapons states all perma...
Thu, Jun 04, 1998
June 03,1998 00:00:00 AM
GENEVA, JUNE 2: Over 45 countries today discussed India and Pakistan's nuclear blasts and their many dimensions at the United Nations Confer...
Wed, Jun 03, 1998
May 30,1998 00:00:00 AM
GENEVA, May 29: A day after Islamabad said it had matched India's five nuclear tests, their chief disarmament negotiator solidly linked the ...
Sat, May 30, 1998
May 30,1998 00:00:00 AM
The World Cup beginning in Paris next month will be a time to tell the story again. Of the over 8,000 children crammed in dark rooms in Sial...
Sat, May 30, 1998
May 29,1998 00:00:00 AM
GENEVA, May 28: Pakistan today called on the member states of the Conference on Disarmament (CD) to stop what is claimed was an imminent att...
Fri, May 29, 1998
May 21,1998 00:00:00 AM
GENEVA, May 20: Nothing substantial is expected from this second ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and 50th birth...
Thu, May 21, 1998
May 20,1998 00:00:00 AM
GENEVA, May 19: He had to say it. He said it simply. Not that what he says will buck the trend, but Cuban President Fidel Castro today threw...
Wed, May 20, 1998
May 15,1998 00:00:00 AM
GENEVA, May 14: India's ambassador to the United Nations-sponsored Conference on Disarmament defended her country by saying that New Delhi d...
Fri, May 15, 1998
May 13,1998 00:00:00 AM
GENEVA, May 12: Cynicism, anger, frustration and even hope has peppered reactions across Europe and in disarmament corridors as people begin...
Wed, May 13, 1998




