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The United Nations has improved the lives of people around the world, creating better living standards for all, by promoting peace, human rights and social progress, including access to healthcare and education.
António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General
The UN remains the essential, one-of-a-kind meeting ground to advance peace, sustainable development and human rights.
It works to help countries end the horrors of conflict to forge sustainable peace.
The UN stands up for justice and respect for human rights. It documents human rights violations worldwide, advocates for robust human rights protections, promotes compliance with international laws and standards, and supports governments in their reform efforts through work in over 90 countries.
Together with its specialized agencies the UN tackles poverty, hunger and disease and provides humanitarian relief in emergencies and crises.
Over the last eight decades, UN health agencies have vastly improved child and maternal mortality, saved millions of lives with immunization, and prevented and controlled the spread of deadly diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.
It supports countries in developing their economic and social resources, while setting standards for sustainability.
Eighty years after its founding, the United Nations faces new challenges.
The climate crisis is raging, inequalities are growing, and poverty is on the rise.
Terrorism and the nuclear threat persist, and new threats have emerged as artificial intelligence becomes ubiquitous, rushing ahead of regulation.
In September 2021, the Secretary-General shared his recommendations to respond to current and future challenges his report, Our Common Agenda, a wake-up call to speed up the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
In September 2024, at the Summit of the Future the members of the United Nations recommitted to facing these challenges together, by signing on to the Pact for the Future.
The Pact aims to strengthen global cooperation for the 21st century and rebuild trust in multilateralism, the UN, and the Security Council.
Provisions include advancing coordination with regional organizations and ensuring the full participation of women, youth and marginalized groups in peace processes.
It reaffirms commitment to abide by international law and settle disputes through dialogue and it reinforces the need to uphold all human rights.
It recognizes that we must address the root causes of conflict and tensions through sustainable development. The Pact includes support to help developing countries to invest in their people and tackle key challenges, like moving towards a future anchored in renewable energy.
It also contains a Global Digital Compact that calls for an AI governance body, which gives developing countries a seat at the table.
World leaders must now turn these agreements into tangible strategies and actions that make a real difference for people's lives.
The United Nations has improved the lives of people around the world, creating better living standards for all, by promoting peace, human rights and social progress, including access to healthcare and education.
This year, 2024, marks 45 years since the opening of the Vienna International Centre (VIC).
The work of the Vienna-based UN organizations in addressing global challenges is as relevant today as it was back in 1979.
2020 must be a year when we all come together, to discuss our priorities as a global family and how we can work together more effectively to address current and emerging threats. We have launched the world's biggest conversation on how we can build a better future together.
The biggest global conversation on the world's future starts now.
The United Nations headquarters in Vienna is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, marking four decades of diplomacy in the heart of Europe.
The United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) and the City of Vienna celebrate 35 Years of 'UNO City'.
The Vienna International Centre (VIC), home to the United Nations family in Vienna and, along with New York, Geneva and Nairobi, one of four United Nations headquarters worldwide, marks its 30th anniversary in 2009.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the inauguration of the Vienna International Centre on 23 August 1979, the United Nations Information Service issued an information kit on the VIC and the Vienna-based Organizations.
