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SPOTLIGHT - Right to housing highlighted as "staying home" has become watchword for staving off COVID
06 May 2021
Dhaka, Bangladesh. UN Photo/Kibae Park.
At a time when real estate prices and homelessness are on the rise in major cities, and when households, especially low-income households, are spending an increasing share of their income on housing - the impact of any decision in an area such as housing can have…
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SPOTLIGHT – Entry into force of treaty banning nuclear weapons shows progress is possible
08 February 2021
Hiroshima after the impact of a nuclear bomb
The first multilateral nuclear disarmament treaty in more than two decades entered into force on 22 January, 90 days after the fiftieth State, Honduras, deposited its instrument of ratification with the UN Secretary-General.
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) filled a major void.…
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UN Geneva and UEFA join forces on Sustainable Development Goals and Match for Solidarity
22 January 2021
UN Geneva and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) will stage another edition of the star-studded Match for Solidarity in Geneva in 2022.
Having jointly staged the successful ‘Match for Solidarity’ in 2018, UEFA and UNOG will hold another edition in 2022. Money raised will again provide vital support to the UEFA Foundation for Children projects…
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World must be ready for the next pandemic, UN says on first International Day of Epidemic Preparedness
27 December 2020
UN Women/Louie Pacardo
Wearing a full protective suit, a woman doctor who leads a group of volunteer medical professionals attending to COVID-19 patients and persons under investigation at a community hospital in the Philippines.
The United Nations is commemorating the…
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United Nations turns 75; world honours the organization by going blue
24 October 2020
The Palais des Nations and the Jet d'eau in Geneva, as well as the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, were among more than 250 emblematic buildings and monuments in Europe that were lit up in blue this Saturday, 24 October to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations (UN).
From the Torre de Belém in Lisbon, the Grand Place in Brussels or the Peace Palace in The Hague,…
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Palais des Nations artwork goes to town
25 June 2020
For the first time in the history of the Palais des Nations, a part of its art collection is being publicly exhibited in an art gallery in Geneva.
Organized for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations and the one-hundredth anniversary of multilateralism in Geneva, the exhibition, “A whole world – the art of the Palais des Nations comes to town”, is a vibrant tribute to the role of art in…
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Geneva’s landmark Jet d’eau running again after 83-day shut down
11 June 2020
Facing global challenges like COVID-19 can only be taken on through multilateral cooperation, stresses UN Geneva Director-General.
Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, today said the world can only face global challenges through multilateral cooperation. She spoke at a ceremony where Geneva’s landmark Jet d’eau was switched on again, 83 days…
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Bees create a buzz at Palais des Nations
20 May 2020
While visitors are used to seeing majestic peacocks roaming the gardens of the Palais des Nations, these are not the only masters of the Ariana Park. Around them, thousands of bees also forage more discreetly in the gardens. On this World Bee Day, celebrated on 20 May and dedicated to these pollinators that are essential to biodiversity and the survival of ecosystems, Pierre Duperret, a gardener who takes care…
