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#GENeva: a global hub for #environmental governance. GEN is a network of over 100 organizations based in the region, led by @UNEP.org & supported by #Switzerland
Thank you for participating in this intergenerational dialogue, shedding light on the importance of inclusivity and empowerment of youth as a major stakeholder to tackling #AMR, thus concluding #WAAW2025 celebrations.

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November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Summarizing the intergenerational dialogue, Katherine Urbáez of @healthdiplomacy.bsky.social underscores that to ensure youth become a part of the #AMR solutions equation, a lot of work must be done across sectors.
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Yasmine Bairouk of @healthdiplomacy.bsky.social notes how diplomacy ensures global AMR commitments turn into effective, context-specific policies, stressing the need for strong monitoring, financing & accountability, including "Click the Box", a new tool helping govts' & the Quadripartite JS.
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Simeon Peter of the #PapuaNewGuinea Tertiary Students Christian Fellowship underscores that the main challenges in dealing with #AMR in the Pacific Islands include

🔸 Limited resources
🔸 Weak capacity for surveillance and monitoring
🔸 Lack of investments
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Federica Castellana of @wfpha.bsky.social highlights inclusivity & equity in #AMR hinges on co-designing and adaptation of solutions to local contexts. She shares how a community-centered one health project in Djibouti positively delivered on surveillance & proactivity at local level.
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Sharing the perspective of a pharmacist in a hospital in an LMIC, Eleanor Fonji notes one of the greatest challenges they face in #AMR stewardship is the lack of awareness among their hospital workers, underscoring the need to work on education and raising awareness on the issue.
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Highlighting difficulties in addressing #AMR in conflict settings -- limited info, disrupted supply chains, overcrowding & complexity of data collection -- Duha Shellah calls for integrating AMR into humanitarian & emergency health plans, as well as youth's frontline experience. @whoemro.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Sharing how @fao.org-led #AMR action plans focus on promoting good farming practices to improve biosecurity,
FAO #GENeva Director Dominique Burgeon highlights the support youth offers in tackling AMR, through raising awareness and driving behavioral changes.
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Karina Khatic, member of the Quadripartite Working Group on Youth Engagement for AMR, highlights how more and more young people are being recognized and championed as leaders in #AMR, but stresses there is still the need for greater inclusion of youth at implementation stages.
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Prothoma Kalidaha, Chair of the Standing Committee on Animal Welfare, shares how emerging professionals can drive change in their regions by:
🔹promoting good animal welfare
🔹encouraging responsible antibiotic use
🔹participating in research
🔹building trust with communities
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Stressing the invisible environmental dimension of #AMR, Jacqueline Alvarez of @unep.org highlights the role of youth in driving awareness through their communication and advocacy channels, representing a key power in protecting the health of people & the environment.
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Highlighting #Uruguay's commitment to tackling #AMR, H.E Amb. Fernando Lugris underscores that a strategy focused on multisectoral partnerships, education, youth empowerment & investing in prevention is central to one of the most pressing global health & developmental challenges.
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Bill Baljon of @healthdiplomacy.bsky.social Youth Network WG Liaison, presents the results of a survey collecting insights on antimicrobial resistance #AMR from young people from across the world, stressing main barriers are awareness gaps, inappropriate antimicrobial use & weak #WASH systems.
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
#Live now!

Culminating #WAAW2025, this Global Intergenerational Dialogue on #AMR advances inclusive global governance on AMR through exchanges on effective solutions through leadership & local innovation.

@healthdiplomacy.bsky.social

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November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
#Environment: What's Up in #GENeva from 24-30 Nov?

#WAAW2025
✅ Road to #UNEA7
#UNForumBHR
#COP30
✅ Knowledge Hub #Minerals #Metals
#AarhusPRTRsMoPs
#FCTCCOP11
#CITESCoP20
#GreenAutumn
✅ & more

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November 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
In celebration of World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week, the Jet d'eau in #GENeva lights up in blue to raise awareness of the need to urgently address #AMR to protect people and the planet . #WAAW2025

@healthdiplomacy.bsky.social @who.int @villedegeneve.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The #PRTRMoPP5 Chair gavels the meeting to a close at 16:55 CET, thus concluding #AarhusPRTRsMoPs.
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
After a full day of negotiations at #PRTRMoPP5, Parties are now reviewing the draft outcomes of the meeting with a view to formally adopt the draft decisions discussed.

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November 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
After two days of constructive negotiations at #FCTCCOP11, parties agree on a draft decision on the Implementation of
@whofctc.bsky.social Art.18 on Protection of environment & health initially proposed by #Brazil, #Mexico & #Panama. The decision will be proposed in plenary tomorrow.
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Culminating #WAAW2025, join the Global Intergenerational Dialogue on #AMR promoting inclusive global governance on AMR through cross-generational exchanges on effective solutions, through leadership & local innovation.

@healthdiplomacy.bsky.social

📅 24 November, 14:30 CET
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November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
On Day 5⃣ of #FCTCCOP11, side events will tackle:

🫁 Lung Health Resolution
🛂 Strengthening Tobacco Control to Achieve #SDG3.4 on NCDs
🚄 Accelerating Art. 15 implementation
📦 Innovative Labelling & Packaging
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It's Day 5⃣ at #FCTCCOP11!

On the penultimate day of the negotiations, the Committee is expected to conclude deliberations on a draft decision on Item 4.3, "Protection of the #environment and the health of persons (Article 18 of the @whofctc.bsky.social).

fctc.who.int/convention/c...
November 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Introducing the #PRTR Partnership, Jorge Ocaña of @unitar.bsky.social underscores the need to make significant progress on PRTR design & implementation through concrete partnerships, including:
- a partnership node
- linking to existing MEAs & funding mechanisms
- dissemination & promotion
November 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Representatives from @oecd-ocde.bsky.social present various tools on PRTRs, including flagship guidance documents & the revised PRTRs management scheme that provides relevant resources in updating or managing PRTRs.

They also highlight how these are able to achieve the objectives of the #GFC.
November 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Kristof Douçot #UNECE notes how PRTRs protocol & IOMC help deliver user-friendly, high-quality pollution data that:
🔹builds trust via multistakeholder dialogue
🔹strengthens nat'l frameworks
🔹improves long-term env't performance
🔹cuts duplication & eases reporting
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM