Tag: Palais
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The Palais des Nations is made of several buildings which were constructed in different stages. The overall usable surface area is 153'500 square metres. There are some 2'800 offices and 34 conference rooms serviced by 5 kilometres of corridors. Please see our pages on the buildings in order to get more information.
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Please be at the Pregny Gate 30 minutes before your tour to allow time for security screening and transfer to the Visitors’ Center.
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The entrance for guided tours is at Pregny Gate, (in front of the Red Cross Museum).
The exit is also through this gate.
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All participants need to register from the age of 14 years onwards.
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Please read your confirmation ticket(s) carefully.
As soon as you receive your ticket(s), every person in your group needs to register in order to receive a digital access badge. The access badge received by e-mail will have to be presented upon arrival at the Palais des Nations on the day of your tour. Please register as soon as you receive your ticket(s) on Indico, our events registration system.
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The Centre for NGOs at the Palais des Nations is at the disposal of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). The Centre is located in rooms A.561 to A.567, Building A, level 5 (view map of the Palais).
The Centre is comprised of computers with public WIFI (room A.567 and A.565), a reading area (room A.561), and a meeting room.
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The Centre for NGOs meeting space is reserved for the use of NGOs in Consultative Status with ECOSOC. Participants of meetings held in the Centre for NGOs must be in possession of a grounds pass for the Palais des Nations.
The Centre for NGOs meeting room is a semi-private meeting space in room A.563 for private meetings of up to 10 people. These meetings must be in line with the United Nations purposes and objectives, as defined in the Charter, and must be strictly non-commercial. The meeting area cannot be made available for NGOs to conduct their own organizational business or advance their own purposes and aims. An NGO organizing a meeting in the Centre is exclusively responsible for its meeting.
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Yes. Please refer to this page.
- Check out our step-by-step guide for meeting organizers.
- Send us by email the booking request form and submit a detailed programme/agenda and a concept note at least 6 weeks prior to the planned date of the meeting.
- We will check for availability of rooms and will revert to you soon.
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The NGO Liaison Unit does not provide funding or financial support of any kind. Please visit the website of the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) at http://www.un.org/democracyfund.
We recommend that NGOs wishing to collaborate with the United Nations on various projects contact the national offices of the UN Specialized Agencies, Funds and Programmes (UNDP, UNICEF, UNEP, UNESCO, FAO, UN Women, UNAIDS, etc). The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) remains the primary body for providing orientation at a national level in your activities with the United Nations.