Seventy-seven years ago, nuclear weapons were dropped on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
For the people of Ukraine, the Russian invasion is a waking nightmare, and a humanitarian disaster on a terrifying scale. But the war is also fast becoming a matter of life and death for vulnerable people around the world.
What is the United Nations doing to help people in and outside of Ukraine? Secondary school students from around Austria joined an online briefing with experts from various Vienna based UN bodies to answer exactly this question.
An Open Letter from the High Level Panel on Water - March 2018
Speaking to the press in the Austrian capital, Vienna, Mr. Guterres also expressed hope that the “positive momentum” will be consolidated during the summit between the United States and North Korea, scheduled for next month.
Op-ed by Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime - April 2018
Op-ed by Miroslav Lajčák, President of the United Nations General Assembly - March 2018
Op-Ed by Stephen O'Brien, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs - August 2017
Op-Ed by Yury Fedotov, the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime - January 2017
A new exhibition showing the devastation to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from the atomic bombing 70 years ago, has been opened at the Vienna International Centre (VIC). Artefacts which were exposed to the effects of the atomic blasts in the two Japanese cities are also on display and the exhibition can now be seen as part of the guided tours of the UN in Vienna.
