On #UNDay, we asked people on Place des Nations in Geneva why the United Nations still matters, 81 years after its founding. This is what they said ⤵️

🍃 Did you know? @UNGeneva's gardening team reuse garden waste from the Palais des Nations to create “dead hedges”, providing a refuge for biodiversity while supporting soil health & carbon capture.

More interesting facts in our 2025 annual report: buff.ly/jPL5kll

The 9th World Investment Forum is starting in Doha!

Organized by @UNCTAD and hosted by @MOCIQatar, #WIF2026 brings the world together to explore how investment can drive sustainable development.

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Attacks directed against civilians are prohibited under international law.

Yet, from the Middle East to Ukraine to Sudan, we are seeing civilians & civilian infrastructure deliberately thrust into the line of fire.

These attacks must stop.

Civilians are #NotATarget!

We need action to ensure everyone has access to clean and safe water supplies.

Everyone can be part of the solution:

🚿Take shorter showers

🚰Don’t let the tap run

🍅Buy local, seasonal food

Share your #WaterAction

➡️ un.org/actnow

In 2025, @UNGeneva's Security & Safety Service and the Geneva cantonal police 🇨🇭 formalized their long-standing partnership through a new #K9 security cooperation agreement. 🐕‍🦺

Discover more facts in our 2025 annual report: buff.ly/jPL5kll
#UN80

"Now is the time to reaffirm the values that gave birth to the UN:

Dialogue over division. Cooperation over confrontation. Solidarity over fear."

On #UNDay, @antonioguterres calls on all countries to renew their commitment to these shared values & obligations that underpin them

"The United Nations was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell."

- Dag Hammarskjöld, second Secretary-General of the UN

#UNDay

🚦📲 Drivers who text while driving are 23 times more likely to be involved in car crashes. Together, we can save lives on the roads.

✅ Stay focused.
❌ Do not drive and text.

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#MakeASafetyStatement #RoadSafety

81 years of service to the 🌍. 17 #GlobalGoals for people & planet.

On today's #UNDay see how the UN makes a difference in the lives of everyone, everywhere👉 buff.ly/OyS3zho

📘 "The UN Charter is our common path to peace."

In under 3 minutes, find out why this founding UN document is essential for maintaining international peace and security ⤵️

#UNCharter 🇺🇳 #UNDay

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

Stand up for your rights and those of others!

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#StandUp4HumanRights

Access to information is essential for development; science & technology can help address development challenges.

Global cooperation can bridge the digital divide, advance the #GlobalGoals and ensure no one is left behind.

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#WorldDevelopmentInformationDay

The UN flag over the Pont du Mont-Blanc, with the Jet d’Eau behind it.

Geneva and the United Nations, side by side since 1946.

Happy #UNDay.

🚦 Safety-belts remain the best vehicle safety device to protect passengers from being severely injured in a crash or being ejected from the vehicle. 🚘

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#MakeASafetyStatement #RoadSafety

Snow leopards are vital to healthy mountain ecosystems. Yet, climate change, biodiversity loss & pollution are threatening their survival.

Restoring and protecting their habitats is essential.

See what the @UN is doing to protect them: buff.ly/mm5zmC4
#SnowLeopardDay

Experts of the Human Rights Committee #CCPR welcome efforts by #Cameroon to combat hate speech, raise questions on trials of civilians by military courts and tensions between French and English speakers.

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@UNTreatyBodies

"Taiz is is a textbook example of what happens when access is cut off.

Access roads have been cut off since 3 October, which means that very little fuel, food or other supplies have reached the city since."

- @JensLaerke65852, @UNOCHA

Attacks directed against civilians are prohibited under international law.

Yet, from the Middle East to Ukraine to Sudan, we are seeing civilians & civilian infrastructure deliberately thrust into the line of fire.

Nothing seems to be off-limits: homes, hospitals, schools, airpenergy facilities.

These attacks must stop.

#NotATarget

“For persons with #albinism, colour-based discrimination is not a probability; it is a daily reality which often has consequential implications on their lives," warns human rights expert Muluka-Anne Miti-Drummond.

Latest report to @UN_HRC: buff.ly/4W4L5RM