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UN: Documents & translation

UN: Documents & translation Breadcrumb Home Main Search Processing a document Can I organize a meeting at the UN? Reserve a meeting Request your meeting through gMeets…

Disability Inclusion at UN Geneva: Guiding Principles

Disability Inclusion at UN Geneva: Guiding Principles Breadcrumb Home Main Search The United Nations Office at Geneva is committed to fostering an open and accessible environment across all areas, including meetings and conferences, publications, and digital communication.Our actions and communication are guided by key principles and international standards, with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at the core.The principles…

Visiting UN Geneva

Visiting UN Geneva Breadcrumb Home Main Search Welcome to the United Nations Take a tour of the Palais des Nations and learn about the United Nations and the UN's work in Geneva. Our tour guides will inform you about the organization and its activities to maintain world peace, foster international relations and development.You will discover the Palais des Nations, a unique building, formerly the headquarters of the…

Graduate Study Programme

Graduate Study Programme Breadcrumb Home Main Search The Graduate Study Programme (GSP) at UN Geneva is the longest-running educational initiative of the United Nations, now in its 63rd year. Over the past 62 years, more than 3,000 young people from 110 countries have successfully completed the Programme. This intensive two-week summer seminar provides an opportunity for participants to deepen their understanding of the United Nations and “…

Biweekly calendar of activities

Biweekly calendar of activities Breadcrumb Home Main Search Calendar of Geneva-based activities of interest to the Press 28 April to 12 May 2025 DateOrgActivityCityContact28 AprUNWorld Day for Safety and Health at Work  28…

Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat Press Conference

2 days 6 hours hence Breadcrumb Home Main Search Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat Press Conference 09 May 2025 Press Conference Announcement Rolph Payet, Executive Secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions David Ogden, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm ConventionsChristine Fuell, Executive Secretary, ad interim, of the Rotterdam Convention

UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING

2 hours 16 minutes ago Breadcrumb Home Main Search UN GENEVA PRESS BRIEFING 06 May 2025 UN Geneva Press Briefing  Rolando Gómez, for the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired a hybrid press briefing, which was attended by the representatives and spokespersons of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the World…

More than 30-year difference in life expectancy highlights health inequities

3 hours 56 minutes ago Breadcrumb Home Main Search More than 30-year difference in life expectancy highlights health inequities 06 May 2025 Courtesy of Silvia Ramos. Midwife Silvia Ramos checks the health of a newborn. Where you're born could be the difference between living over three decades longer than someone else from a poorer country lacking safe housing, good educational opportunities and access to decent…

Exhausted Sudanese flee into Chad as fighting escalates

3 hours 56 minutes ago Breadcrumb Home Main Search Exhausted Sudanese flee into Chad as fighting escalates 06 May 2025 © WFP/Eloge Mbaihondoum Refugees from wartorn Sudan wait at a food distribution centre in neighbouring Chad. Most of the new arrivals are women and children, says the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). Thousands of exhausted Sudanese refugees continue to flee fighting in search of safety in …

‘Alarming’ slowdown in human development - could AI provide answers?

3 hours 56 minutes ago Breadcrumb Home Main Search ‘Alarming’ slowdown in human development - could AI provide answers? 06 May 2025 © Ministry of Digital Transformation, Trinidad &Tobago Trinidad & Tobago is investing in AI with the expectation that it can accelerate development. The progress of human development – as measured by people’s freedoms and well-being – has remained sluggish since the major shock…