International Year of Fruits and Vegetables

International Year of Fruits and Vegetables

Fruits and vegetables are essential for good nutrition and maintaining overall good health. They are often more expensive than unhealthy snacks and junk foods, making them unaffordable for many. Ensuring that fruits and vegetables are available, accessible and affordable to everyone is fundamental for achieving food security and combatting malnutrition, and everyone has a role to play.

Drug use among older people, a hidden epidemic

Drug use among older people, a hidden epidemic

This year the Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board focuses on a hidden epidemic: drug use among older people and highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted access to medicines and drug prevention and treatment services...

Virtual Tours

NEW - Individuals and groups can now book online to take a virtual tour of the UN in Vienna. School groups welcome!
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Events

Coronavirus global health emergency

Updates on coronavirus from World Health Organization

Invitation: Next virtual Ciné-ONU Vienna film screening of 'When Tomatoes Met Wagner' to mark International Mother Earth Day - Wed 21 April 2021, 5 pm (CET) - Please register

For further information on past events and the latest on Ciné-ONU , visit the Events Page

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Press Releases

April 12, 2021

Statement by Cornelis P. de Joncheere, President of the International Narcotics Control Board: Sixty-fourth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs: Ceremonial opening segment

April 12, 2021

UNODC Executive Director, at 64th session of Commission on Narcotic Drugs, calls for redoubled efforts as COVID-19 compounds drug challenges

April 8, 2021

The Secretary-General: Message to the International Romani Union

The Latest

April 16, 2021

Alert over shortage of new drugs for ‘world’s most dangerous bacteria’

April 16, 2021

Japan: UN experts ‘deeply disappointed’ by decision to discharge Fukushima water

April 16, 2021

New UN-backed framework to boost agricultural trade between African nations

April 14, 2021

Hundreds of millions of women living lives ‘governed by others’, UN report shows

April 13, 2021

COVID-19 Measures at the Vienna International Centre

April 13, 2021

Updates on coronavirus from World Health Organization

Media Room

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres talks to press (UN Photo/Rick Bajornas)

See the latest photos , videos , audio as well as press releases and media events in the Media Room

64th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), 12-16 April, Vienna, Austria - watch live

International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Annual Report 2020 out now

Daily Press Briefing by Secretary-General's Spokesperson & Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly, 6pm Vienna time (12pm New York time) - watch live

Visit the United Nations

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• Virtual tours for groups
• Virtual tours for individuals
• Virtual lecture programmes

On-site guided tours of the Vienna International Centre are temporarily suspended as a COVID-19 prevention measure.

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