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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 February 2025. Higher Education Institute in Geneva, Switzerland Geneva Graduate Institute Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement Former names Graduate Institute of International Studies (1927–2007) Type Semi-private, semi-public graduate school University institute ...
The Palace of Nations.The United Nations Office at Geneva (Switzerland) is the second most important UN centre, after the United Nations Headquarters.. While the Secretariat of the United Nations is headquartered in New York City, its many bodies, specialized agencies, and related organizations are headquartered in other parts of the world, particularly in Europe.
Tamara Kunanayakam (DEA 1982), ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office in Geneva; Egriselda López (MA 2018), Permanent representative of El Salvador to the United Nations in New York; Hermann Meyer-Lindenberg (PhD 1935), ambassador of Germany to Spain, and ambassador to Italy
The idea of a United Nations training and research institute was mentioned for the first time in a 1962 resolution of the UN General Assembly. [1] UNITAR was founded in 1963, following the recommendation of the UN Economic and Social Council to the General Assembly, which commissioned the UN Secretary-General with the establishment of a United Nations Institute for Training and Research as an ...
Two UN Plaza followed this in 1983. As the name suggests, UNDC's principal tenants are the United Nations, the UN Development Programme, and other missions to the UN. The Millennium Hilton New York One UN Plaza is a privately owned hotel and occupies the lobby, the upper floors, the swimming pool, and the tennis/racquetball courts. [4]
Geneva International Model United Nations (abbreviated GIMUN) is a non-governmental Organization in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations since 2007. [2] GIMUN is based in Geneva, Switzerland. It was created in 1999 by students of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. [1]
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) is a non-governmental organisation representing the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) at the United Nations in Geneva and New York City. Parent bodies of QUNO are the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), [ 1 ] American Friends Service Committee [ 2 ] and Quaker Peace and Social Witness ...
The first Global Labour Institute was established in Geneva in 1997 and is chaired by Dan Gallin, a former General Secretary of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Association (IUF) [3] [4] who has published widely on the history and future of the international trade union movement.