Céline leaves us until January 2011 to have her third child.

Céline will be sorely missed by everyone at mondofragils group, as well as by her long list of clients who, like us, have enjoyed her professionalism, intelligence and charm over the past 2 and a half years.

Building on an active relationship with the Global Unions - including a redesign of the UNI logo by the messaggio studios team in 2009 and previous film work with ICFTU (now ITUC) - mondofragilis group are happy to be working with two more Global Unions: BWI and PSI.

mondofragilis group president Giray, has just returned from a unique two-day closed conference dealing with global programme partnerships that was held at Chateau Bossey outside Geneva.

An exciting challenge has been announced! An open, global competition to design an attractive, recognizable and memorable logo for the World Urban Campaign, symbolizing its initiatives and representatives. The three finalists will be flown to Rio de Janeiro for the World Urban Forum in March, and all three will receive a cash prize between $2000 and $5000. Closing date for entries is March 1st, 2010.

Tuesday 12 January, 2010 saw the worst earthquake in Haiti in 2 centuries - measuring 7.0 on the richter scale. Please follow the links below to donate what you can to help the relief fund in Haiti.

messaggio studios web team have managed the World YWCA website for 4 years now and were very proud to be asked to take on the challenge of entirely redesigning the site. The redesign includes several new functionalities making it more ergonomic and transforming it into a ‘live’ website. As well as having a new “look” the World YWCA website now includes advanced functions linking related articles by keywords, secure links to make online donations, in addition to a googlemaps feature showing locations of YWCAs worldwide.

messaggio studios are pleased to launch an e-waste Public Service Announcement, to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Basel Convention on the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and their disposal.

mondofragilis group is pleased to be part of the formative, pre-launch, stages of the World Urban Campaign, a global campaign in co-ordination with UN-habitat. Last week mondofragilis group president, Giray, was part of the Working Group who met for two days in Paris. Indeed, he led one of the brainstorming sub-groups as they worked to draft the goals, strategy and principals of this significant campaign.

Common Concern, the quarterly magazine of the World YWCA, explores current social issues and women’s role in bringing about positive change.

It’s official! mondofragilis group is pleased to present otjiwarongo consulting, the new name for mondofragilis network. With all media and creative activity now being entirely carried out by our experienced team at messaggio studios, specialised consulting becomes the focus ofotjiwarongo consulting.

Soleil appeared in our documentary series Cancer is... and told us, and the world, about her fight with childhood cancer. Well, despite heavy doses of radiotherapy and a dim prognosis, she has just given birth to a wonderful boy named Hayden.

mondofragilis group's three main production companies are proud to have been associated, once again, with the campaigning efforts surrounding World AIDS Day 2009. But this year, some of our actions were admittedly novel...

Tuesday 17th November marks the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Basel Convention on the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and their disposal. With 172 parties across the world, the convention is an almost universal environmental agreement. The celebration will bring together experts to reflect upon the successes of the convention thus far and discuss visions for a cleaner environment. The event will take place in Basel, Switzerland the city that gave its name to the Convention on the occasion of its adoption in 1989.

Aurélie joins the group following work in the production environment; she has experience working in media relations, printing, audio-visual, web and more.

Having just returned from the first steering committee meeting of the World Urban Campaign held in Barcelona this past week, I feel invigorated to see how partners can come together in a spirit of cooperation with the sole intent of making good on their commitment to a better urban future.

UN Global Compact companies, including mondofragilis group companies, have come together to raise their voices in an expression of support for a real deal in Copenhaguen during the climate change conference from 7-18 December 2009.