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The United Nations promotes global trade, investment, finance, partnerships, cooperation with the private sector and civil society – essential activities to help achieve the goal of inclusive and sustainable development by the year 2030. Ensuring that developing countries can equally benefit from a globalized economy is high up on the UN’s agenda. To this end, the UN helps set up the rules for an international and fair trade system.…
Sustainable coffee breaks at the Palais des Nations
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Do you enjoy having coffee at the Palais des Nations? Help us protect the environment and bring your own cup instead of using a disposable one! All the machines at the Palais will recognize your cup.More than half a million disposable cups are used at the Palais every year and then thrown out. Adding the weight of single-use cutlery, takeaway boxes and napkins, this amounts to to eight tons of waste each…
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Building E in Transformation: Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future Exhibition
The Strategic Heritage Plan (SHP) of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) is an ambitious initiative to modernize the Palais des Nations while preserving the building’s historical and architectural heritage. As a host to UNOG and originating as the seat of the League of Nations, the Palais des Nations holds both historical and symbolic significance. This…
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Due to its unique international character, and the powers vested in its founding Charter, the Organization can take action on a wide range of issues, and provide a forum for its 193 Member States to express their views, through the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council and other bodies and committees.
The work of the United Nations reaches every corner of the globe. Although best known for peacekeeping, peacebuilding, conflict…
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The United Nations Office at GenevaThe United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), under the leadership of Director-General Tatiana Valovaya, is one of four main UN Secretariat offices, together with the headquarters in New York and the two offices in Nairobi and Vienna. The United Nations Secretariat carries out…
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UNITED NATIONS OBSERVANCES AND SPECIAL EVENTS
The existence of international days predates the establishment of the United Nations, but the UN has embraced them as a powerful advocacy tool. The United Nations observes designated days, weeks, years, and decades, each with a theme, or topic. By…
