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Cosmic crops poised for harvest on Earth

UN food and atomic energy agencies are readying to reap the rewards of a ground-breaking ‘astrobotany’ investigation, announcing on Monday that seeds sent to space in 2022 are now poised to return to Earth…

Dismantling racism today starts by understanding slavery’s ‘horrific’ past

Education is the “most powerful weapon” in the world’s arsenal to combat the brutal legacy of racism playing out today, the UN chief said on Monday, as the General Assembly met to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade…

SPOTLIGHT - Right to housing highlighted as "staying home" has become watchword for staving off COVID

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…

08 February 2021

SPOTLIGHT – Entry into force of treaty banning nuclear weapons shows progress is possible

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-…

22 January 2021

UN Geneva and UEFA join forces on Sustainable Development Goals and Match for Solidarity

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…

27 December 2020

World must be ready for the next pandemic, UN says on first International Day of Epidemic Preparedness

The United Nations is commemorating the first International Day of Epidemic Preparedness on Sunday, underscoring the need to learn lessons from the coronavirus pandemic, and urging greater investments in preparedness, to confront future health emergencies. “This first observance of the…

24 October 2020

United Nations turns 75; world honours the organization by going blue

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…

Globally, 1 in 3 children missed out on remote learning when COVID-19 shuttered schools

For at least 463 million children whose schools closed due to COVID-19, “there was no such a thing as remote learning,” the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday, as the agency launched a new report outlining the limitations of remote learning and exposing the deep inequalities…

Palais des Nations artwork goes to town

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…

Geneva’s landmark Jet d’eau running again after 83-day shut down

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.…