The United Nations Compensation Commission today made available $270 million to the Government of the State of Kuwait towards the Commission’s remaining claim with an outstanding award balance. The United Nations Compensation Commission is a subsidiary organ of the United Nations Security…

  UEFA and the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) today concluded a Memorandum of Understanding at the House of European Football in Nyon, signed by UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva Tatiana Valovaya. Having jointly staged the…

  The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will virtually hold the first public plenary of its 2021 session on Tuesday, 19 January, during which it will hear a statement by Tatiana Valovaya, Secretary-General of the Conference on…

  The United Nations Office at Geneva and the World Academy of Art & Science have organized a conference on Global Leadership for the 21st Century. The conference was held from the Palais des Nations with 800 participants joining online from around 100 countries. The conference, held on…

Geneva, 22 October 2020 – The Palais des Nations and the Jet d'eau in Geneva, as well as the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, will be among more than 180 emblematic buildings and monuments in Europe to be illuminated in blue on the evening of Saturday, 24 October to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the…

  Geneva, Switzerland (12 October 2020) – A new exhibition celebrating the evolution of multilateral cooperation in Geneva over the past century was inaugurated today at Place des Nations, where it will be displayed from 12 to 30 October 2020. The bilingual exhibition of 18 two-sided panels…

  The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its forty-fifth regular session from 14 September to 6 October 2020 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. At the opening of the session at 10 a.m. on Monday, 14 September, Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights…

  La Conférence du désarmement, qui doit clore le 18 septembre prochain les travaux de sa session annuelle, a tenu ce matin sa première séance plénière publique sous la présidence du Bélarus. Les débats de cette séance ont porté sur la préparation du rapport annuel de la Conférence sur sa…

The United Nations Compensation Commission today made available $210 million to the Government of the State of Kuwait towards the Commission’s remaining claim with an outstanding award balance. The United Nations Compensation Commission was established in 1991 in accordance with Security Council…

The United Nations Office at Geneva has launched an online international art contest, "The Future We Want", to mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. Geneva-based permanent missions to the United Nations were invited to submit works of art. More than 40 submissions have been…