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Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East

2-3 December 2008
Hofburg Palace, Vienna

World AIDS Day 2008, Monday, 1 December 2008, 12:00-14:00, Vienna International Centre (VIC), Rotunda/Plaza

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) - Backgrounder and Recent Developments (PDF)

The Secretary-General's Campaign to End Violence Against Women (PDF)

International Conference on Financing for Development in Doha, Qatar, 29 November - 2 December 2008

The UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee and its Executive Directorate (CTC/CTED) (PDF)

Annual Observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People - 26 November 2008

United Nations Democracy Fund Invites Civil Society Organizations to Apply for Funding (PDF) (deadline: 31 December 2008)

The United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture (PDF)

59-volume United Nations Yearbook collection (1946-2005) now available online

60 Ways the UN makes a difference

This is the United Nations - A short overview (PDF)

60 years of United Nations Peacekeeping

60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights

Marking the 60 Years of the UDHR around the world (PDF)

Website: 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Visitors Service

Welcome to the United Nations in Vienna!

Guided tours of the Vienna International Centre are available to everyone. Multilingual guides from different countries will inform you about the work of the United Nations and the Vienna-based Organizations.
You will visit exhibitions and a conference room and get to know the fascinating world of the United Nations.

Observances and Activities

Calendar (2008)
United Nations International Years, Decades, Days and Conferences

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Press Releases

Vienna

2 December 2008

UNIS/SGSM/087

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: “Every Individual Can Make a Difference in Society”. Message on International Volunteer Day, 5 December 2008

1 December 2008

UNIS/SGSM/088

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: “It is My Hope That We Will All Act on Our Collective Responsibility to Uphold the Rights Enshrined in the Universal Declaration”. Message on Human Rights Day, 10 December 2008

UNIS/INF/303

Prospects for Peace in the Middle East to be Explored at Media Seminar Organized by the United Nations and the Austrian Foreign Ministry in Vienna, 2-3 December

27 November 2008

UNIS/INF/302

Innovative Solutions for Agribusiness

UNIS/NAR/1041

Drugs Finance Taliban War Machine, Says UN Drug Tsar. But Opium Becoming Less Important to Afghan Economy

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New York

World AIDS Day, 1 December
Pupils launched balloons along with personal messages voicing the call to "lead, empower and deliver on AIDS" in the Memorial Plaza of the Vienna International Centre

Photo archive

International Day of Peace 2008: United Nations collects messages of peace from around the world

On the occasion of International Day of Peace 2008, the United Nations collected 145,000 messages of peace from people around the world. The messages were presented to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly on 23 September 2008 by General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann.

To view selected messages of peace sent to UNIS Vienna.

The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations as an annual observance of global non-violence and ceasefire. Every year, people in all parts of the world honour peace in various ways on 21 September.

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