Webcast
Live, gavel-to-gavel, multilingual webcast coverage of UN meetings on the global UN Web TV platform allows the public to follow multilateral discussions and experience the work of the UN in real time. The videos remain available on the platform for on-demand viewing.
In Geneva, UN Human Rights Council and UN Human Rights Treaty Body meetings are webcast on UN Web TV. Other meetings organized or co-sponsored by UN entities can also be webcast upon request; specific fees apply. A selected number of conference rooms at the Palais des Nations are webcast-enabled. Webcast requests should be signaled at the moment of the room booking to Meetings Management Service, who will then put requesting entities in touch with UNTV to coordinate further.
Press & External Relations
The UN Information Service may help conference organizers disseminate news and information about conferences and meetings taking place at the UN in Geneva. To organize a press conference or briefing at the Palais des Nations or for other media-related questions please contact the Press & External Relations section of the United Nations Information Service.
Press and External Relations Section
press_geneva@un.org
+41 22 917 23 25 or 23 02
Accreditation of Journalists
Permanent Missions can request media accreditation for journalists accompanying one of their officials by preparing a Note Verbale stating the name, function and media outlet of the journalists they wish to accredit. Each journalist must be registered in Indico.UN in the Media Accreditation module. Permanent Missions can now have access to the module to make media accreditation requests on behalf of the journalists, if necessary. Please contact accreditation-media@un.org for more information.
FAQs
Press conferences organized in the press room by UN entities are filmed by UNTV, and the footage is made available on https://www.unognewsroom.org.
For any other specific needs, the Design and Printing Section provides photo and filming services to its clients. This includes photo and video shooting, photo and video editing, as well as captioning and animations. However, the Section does not provide filming or streaming of entire conferences.
If you are organizing an official press conference at the Palais des Nations through the UN Information Service, where all UN accredited media can attend, the Service will put at your disposal a press conference room or a stake-out position. You can hold interviews there after the press conference.
If you wish to organize a briefing with a select group of journalists or media outlets only, you need to book a room with the Division of Conference Management for this purpose.
The Information Service sends out official press conference announcements and notes to correspondents regarding UN events and activities to journalists accredited to the United Nations in Geneva.
UN agencies and Member States must send their own press materials to the media.
The UN Information Service does not organize fully virtual press conferences.
The Information Service facilitates hybrid press conferences (using Zoom) only when a UN entity is the sponsor or co-sponsor of the press conference and moderates the event. Journalists and speakers then have the option to participate online but the moderator needs to be physically present in the press room at the Palais des Nations.
For Member States-sponsored press conferences, only the in-person mode is available.
Media outlets with press accreditation can broadcast live from the Palais des Nations using their own equipment. For large news events, broadcasters can connect their equipment to a UNTV live feed. No live standups are allowed during press conferences and stakeouts or in meeting areas while the event is still in progress. No recording or live transmission is allowed in areas reserved for coffee breaks or food service.
UN agencies and Member States can organize press conferences at the Palais des Nations. To organize a press conference, please contact the United Nations Information Service, Solange Behoteguy Cortes and Elisa Landozzi, who will guide you through the process.
Member States or UN entities can bring their own photographer or videographer to document their press conference or participation in an official UN event or conference. The official videographer and photographer must be accredited as part of the official delegation, or organizers of the event, and not as press, as they are not media representatives.
No. The Information Service only provides the list of UN Geneva accredited journalists to the spokespersons of UN entities based in Geneva, in line with guidance on data protection.
Member States or NGOs that would like to send out press materials to journalists accredited at the Palais des Nations can reach out to the Association of United Nations Accredited Correspondents (ACANU), which could potentially share your material with their members. You can reach them at acanu.secretary@acanu.ch.
Permanent Missions may request accreditation of journalists accompanying one of their representatives by means of a note verbale indicating the name and function of the journalists in question as well as the media outlet for which they work. Each journalist must be registered in the Indico.UN accreditation module. Permanent Missions can now access the module to submit accreditation requests on behalf of journalists, if necessary. For more information, please write to accreditation-media@un.org.