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Centre William Rappard, the Glossary

The Centre William Rappard at Rue de Lausanne 154, Geneva, Switzerland, was built between 1923 and 1926 to house the International Labour Office (ILO).^[1]

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Aargau

Aargau, more formally the Canton of Aargau (Kanton Aargau; Chantun Argovia; Canton d'Argovie; Canton Argovia), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.

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Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information.

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Chinese garden

The Chinese garden is a landscape garden style which has evolved over three thousand years.

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Dean Cornwell

Dean Cornwell (March 5, 1892 – December 4, 1960) was a left-handed American illustrator and muralist.

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Delft

Delft is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.

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Eduardo Chicharro y Agüera

Eduardo Chicharro y Agüera (18 June 1873, Madrid - 24 May 1949, Madrid) was a Spanish painter.

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Eric Wyndham White

Sir Eric Wyndham White KCMG (1913–1980) was a British administrator and economist.

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General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is a legal agreement between many countries, whose overall purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève)Genf; Ginevra; Genevra.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gilbert Bayes

Gilbert William Bayes (4 April 1872 – 10 July 1953) was an English sculptor.

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Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement, abbreviated IHEID), also known as the Geneva Graduate Institute, is a public-private graduate-level university located in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Gustave Louis Jaulmes

Gustave Louis Jaulmes (14 April 1873 – 7 January 1959) was an eclectic French artist who followed the neoclassical trend in the Art Deco movement.

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Harry Clarke

Henry Patrick Clarke RHA (17 March 1889 – 6 January 1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator.

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In God We Trust

"In God We Trust" (also rendered as "In God we trust") is the official motto of the United States as well as the motto of the U.S. state of Florida, along with the nation of Nicaragua (Spanish: En Dios confiamos).

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International Labour Organization

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards.

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Jorge Colaço

Jorge Colaço (26 February 1868 - 23 August 1942) was a Portuguese painter specially known for his works as tile (azulejo) painter.

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Kennedy Round

The Kennedy Round was the sixth session of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) multilateral trade negotiations held between 1964 and 1967 in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Lake Geneva

Lake Geneva (Léman, lac Léman, rarely lac de Genève; Lago Lemano; Genfersee; Lai da Genevra) is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France.

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Le Grand-Saconnex

Le Grand-Saconnex is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.

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League of Nations

The League of Nations (LN or LoN; Société des Nations, SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.

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Mark Muller

Mark Muller (born 26 August 1964 in Geneva) is a Swiss real estate lawyer and politician in the canton of Geneva.

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Maurice Denis

Maurice Denis (25 November 1870 – 13 November 1943) was a French painter, decorative artist, and writer.

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MeToo movement

#MeToo is a social movement and awareness campaign against sexual abuse, sexual harassment and rape culture, in which people publicize their experiences of sexual abuse or sexual harassment.

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Ministry of Commerce (China)

The Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) is a executive department of the State Council of the People's Republic of China that is responsible for formulating policy on foreign trade, export and import regulations, foreign direct investments, consumer protection, market competition (competition regulator) and negotiating bilateral and multilateral trade agreements.

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Nicaragua

Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.

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Pascal Lamy

Pascal Lamy (born 8 April 1947) is a French political consultant and businessman.

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Pietro Canonica

Pietro Canonica (1 March 1869 – 8 June 1959) was an Italian sculptor, painter, opera composer, professor of arts and senator for life.

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Roberto Azevêdo

Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo (born 3 October 1957) is a Brazilian career diplomat who served as Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) from 2013 until 2020.

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Sandrine Salerno

Sandrine Salerno (born in 1971 in Geneva) is a Swiss politician and a member of the Socialist Party.

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Seán Keating

Seán Keating (born John Keating, 28 September 1889 – 21 December 1977) was an Irish romantic-realist painter who painted some iconic images of the Irish War of Independence and of the early industrialization of Ireland.

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Stuttgart

Stuttgart (Swabian: italics) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Suzhou

Suzhou (Suzhounese: ''sou¹ tseu¹'', Mandarin), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major prefecture-level city in Jiangsu province, China.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Tiber

The Tiber (Tevere; Tiberis) is the third-longest river in Italy and the longest in Central Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing through Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio, where it is joined by the River Aniene, to the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Ostia and Fiumicino.

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Ticino

Ticino, sometimes Tessin, officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.

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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_William_Rappard

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