The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum, will hold the first public plenary of its 2024 session on Tuesday, 23 January.  The meeting will start at 10 a.m. under the Presidency of India.  Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of…

The Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) held its Winter Session on 6 December 2023. The Inspectors elected Inspector Carolina Fernandez Opazo (Mexico) as Chair and Inspector Jesús Miranda Hita (Spain) as Vice-Chair of the Unit for 2024. The Unit also adopted its programme of work for 2024, which…

  The UN Human Rights Office is organising a High-Level Event on 11 and 12 December to mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  The HR75 event will take place at the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), located at the Palais des Nations in Rooms…

The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People was commemorated today at a Special Meeting held at the United Nations Office at Geneva. Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the meeting and read out the message of António Guterres…

A Special Meeting will be held at the Palais des Nations on Wednesday, 29 November to mark the annual observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.  Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, will open the meeting with…

  GENEVA (30 October 2023) – In a significant move towards energy conservation, the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) will sign the “Ambition Negawatt Vision” Charter with water, gas, and electricity company Services Industriels de Genève (SIG) to pledge its commitment to saving energy…

The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its fifty-fourth regular session from 11 September to 13 October 2023 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.  The session will open at 10 a.m. on Monday, 11 September under the presidency of Ambassador Václav Bálek (Czech Republic).…

  Tripoli, 31 August 2023  Since late 2020, the Libyan government has found solutions for 80% of internally displaced persons working with communities to help address their issues. Concluding his four-day visit to the country, where he met with government officials and internally…

The 2023 United Nations Programme of Fellowships on Disarmament started on 21 August at the United Nations Office at Geneva with the participation of young diplomats and other government officials from 24 States of the United Nations. Officials from the following States are participating in…

The Committee against Torture this morning closed its seventy-seventh session after adopting its concluding observations on the reports of New Zealand, Romania, Spain and Switzerland on their efforts to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or…