Are you curious about what the United Nations is doing to make a better world? The Visitors Service offers guided tours of the UN in Vienna Monday-Friday.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set a new universal standard for development which aims to ensure that no one is left behind.
World leaders adopted the Pact at the Summit of the Future held in New York in September 2024. Its adoption demonstrates that countries are committed to an international system with the United Nations at its centre.
Climate change is the defining issue of our times. Every day, more and more people are getting involved in climate action.
That’s why the United Nations Development Programme prepared this resource of climate change terms and concepts. If you’re struggling to keep up with the climate conversation, the Climate Dictionary is for you.
More than 60 students from three universities in Vienna recently took part in a Model UN simulation conference at the UN in Vienna. Supported by the UN Environment Programme, the Permanent Mission of Austria and UNIS Vienna, delegates from around 30 countries discussed “Energy sovereignty and justice”, practiced interpretation and gained diplomatic experience.
See more photos from the event here.
To mark International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna, in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN (Vienna) and with the support of The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme, invites you to the Ciné-ONU screening of the documentary “The Last Ones of Auschwitz” – 26 January 2026, 6:30 p.m., Top Kino.
The exhibition “The United Nations in Vienna – Austria and the UN” showcases key milestones in the long-standing partnership between the United Nations and Austria as a host country for Vienna-based UN organizations. It is permanently on display at the Vienna International Centre.
Watch the video & see photos of the inauguration
Eighty-one years after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on 27 January 1945, there are only a few people left who can talk about what happened during the Holocaust. Dirk Peter Adler is one of them.
Born in the Netherlands in 1940, he survived the Holocaust after being taken in by a Dutch family when he was two years old. His parents, who tried to flee with him to Belgium were deported to Auschwitz where they were killed.
After the war, his mother’s family found the five-year-old with the help of the Red Cross. Dirk Peter was brought to London and later went with another aunt and uncle to live in Colombia. In this short documentary, he gives a moving account of the impact that the Second World War and the Holocaust had on his life.
The interview with Dirk Adler was recorded on 27 January 2025.
Are you curious about what the United Nations is doing to make a better world?
The Visitors Service offers guided tours of the UN in Vienna Monday-Friday.
