WHO HQ main building, Geneva from Southwest

The United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG, french: Office des Nations Unies à Genève) in

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, Switzerland, is one of the four major offices of the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoniz ...

where numerous different UN agencies have a joint presence. The main UNOG administrative offices are located inside the

Palais des Nations The Palace of Nations (french: Palais des Nations, ) is the home of the United Nations Office at Geneva, located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was built between 1929 and 1938 to serve as the headquarters of the League of Nations. It has served ...

complex, which was originally constructed for the

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between 1929 and 1938. Besides United Nations administration, the Palais des Nations also hosts the offices for a number of programmes and funds such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is a United Nations (UN) body established in December 1991 by the General Assembly to strengthen the international response to complex emergencies and natural disaster ...

(OCHA) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE). The United Nations and its specialized agencies, programmes and funds may have other offices or functions hosted outside the Palais des Nations, normally in office spaces provided by the

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. UN specialised agencies and other UN entities with offices in Geneva hold bi-weekly briefings at the

, organized by the United Nations Information Service at Geneva. UNOG produces an annual report where it lists all major events and activities that happened through a year.

Constituent agencies

Headquartered in Geneva

Conference on Disarmament The Conference on Disarmament (CD) is a multilateral disarmament forum established by the international community to negotiate arms control and disarmament agreements based at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Conference meets annually i ...

* International Bureau of Education * International Computing Centre *

International Labour Organization The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards. Founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and o ...

* International Organization for Migration * International Trade Centre *

International Telecommunication Union The International Telecommunication Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. It was established on 17 May 1865 as the International Telegraph Unio ...

Joint Inspection Unit The Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) is a United Nations unit established by resolution 31/192 of 22 December 1976 of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Its objective is to enhance the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning ...

* Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS *

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, commonly known as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) or the United Nations Human Rights Office, is a department of the Secretariat of the United Nati ...

* United Nations Chief Executives Board for Coordination * United Nations Compensation Commission * United Nations Conference on Trade and Development * United Nations Economic Commission for Europe *

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integrati ...

United Nations Human Rights Council The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), CDH is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world. The Council has 47 members elected for staggered three-year terms on a regional group basis. ...

United Nations Institute for Training and Research The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is a dedicated training arm of the United Nations system. UNITAR provides training and capacity development activities to assist mainly developing countries with special attention ...

* United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service *

* United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace *

United Nations Research Institute For Social Development The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is "an autonomous research institute within the United Nations that undertakes multidisciplinary research and policy analysis on the social dimensions of contemporary develo ...

World Health Organization The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of ...

* World Intellectual Property Organization *

World Meteorological Organization The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics. The WMO originated from the Intern ...

World Trade Organization The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitates international trade. With effective cooperation in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and ...

Presence at Geneva

* Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO (headquarters in Rome) * International Atomic Energy Agency (headquarters are in

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) * United Nations Environment Programme (headquarters are in

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) *

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

(headquarters are in Paris) * United Nations Industrial Development Organization (headquarters are in

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) *

World Food Programme The World Food Programme; it, Programma alimentare mondiale; es, Programa Mundial de Alimentos; ar, برنامج الأغذية العالمي, translit=barnamaj al'aghdhiat alealami; russian: Всемирная продовольствен� ...

(headquarters are in Rome) * United Nations World Tourism Organization (headquarters in Madrid)

Directors-general

# Wladimir Moderow, Poland, 1946–1951 # Adriaan Pelt, Netherlands, 1952–1957 # Pier Pasquale Spinelli, Italy, 1957–1968 # Vittorio Winspeare-Guicciardi, Italy, 1968–1978 # Luigi Cottafavi, Italy, 1978–1983 # Eric Suy, Belgium, 1983–1987 # Jan Mårtenson, Sweden, 1987–1992 # Antoine Blanca, France, 1992–1993 # Vladimir Petrovsky, Russia, 1993–2002 # Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Russia, 2002–2011 # Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kazakhstan, 2011–2013 # Michael Møller, Denmark, 2013–2019 # Tatiana Valovaya, Russia, 2019–present

Administrative history

# United Nations Geneva Office, from beginning, Aug 1946 – Apr 1947, (IC/Geneva/1) # European Office of the UN, 11 Apr 1947 – 10 Aug 1948, (IC/Geneva/49) # United Nations Office at Geneva, 10 Aug 1948 – 9 Aug 1949, (IC/Geneva/152) # European Office of the UN, 9 Aug 1949 – 8 Dec 1957, (SGB/82/Rev.1) # United Nations Office at Geneva, 8 December 1957 – present, (SGB/82/Rev.2)

Notes

References

Bibliography

* Joëlle Kuntz, ''Geneva and the Call of Internationalism: A History'', Éditions Zoé, 2011, 96 pages ().

External links

Official website

UN Geneva information

United Nations organisations in GenevaUN Geneva Annual Report
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