To mark World Teachers' Day, the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) Vienna, in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Austria, invite you to the Ciné-ONU Vienna screening of the documentary “Name Me Lawand”.
5 October 2026, 6:30 p.m., Top Kino, Vienna
How does the United Nations impact our daily life? The global exhibition Shared Lives, Shared Future, organized to mark the 80th anniversary of the organization, showcases more than 250 stories from around the world highlighting how the UN is part of our lives in ways one might not expect.
Finalists were chosen from across secondary schools in Slovakia for the 28th annual Human Rights Olympics, an educational competition that provides students a platform to think critically and stand-up for civil liberties and democratic values.
The Commemoration of the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda was held at the United Nations at Vienna in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Rwanda to the United Nations.
Laurent Ziegler, artist and human trafficking survivor, thinks it's important to know that survivors often don't come from faraway countries but can experience trafficking here in Austria and Germany. Laurent is a member of the UNODC Voices of Resilience Global Forum for Human Trafficking Survivors that provides an empowering space for survivors to share their perspectives.
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.
Staff of the Vienna-based organizations, representatives of the diplomatic corps, the Jewish community and civil society gathered at the Vienna International Centre to mark the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.
To mark International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, the documentary ‘The Last Ones of Auschwitz’ presenting the powerful testimonies of Holocaust survivors was screened as part of the film series Ciné-ONU Vienna at Top Kino. The film brings together 28 people who survived Auschwitz, some of the very last witnesses of this camp.
To mark Human Rights Day and as part of the Human Rights Film Tour, the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Vienna, together with the Human Rights Office of the City of Vienna, screened The Brink of Dreams. Shot over four years, the documentary follows an all-female street theatre troupe in southern Egypt challenging traditional gender roles.
Around 30 educators from Austria and Slovakia joined two workshops at the United Nations in Vienna to explore how to integrate the United Nations, human rights, and sustainable development into their teaching. They heard about educational tools, collaborated on classroom activities, and learned from UN experts about global issues.
Hate speech incites violence and undermines social cohesion and tolerance. Because fighting hate, discrimination, racism and inequality is at the core of United Nations principles and work, the Organization is working to confront hate speech at every turn.
Avraham Roet was born in Amsterdam in 1928 and spent a normal childhood in the Netherlands. Everything changed in 1940 when the Nazis invaded and began persecuting Jews throughout the country. Avraham managed to escape and was hidden by Catholic farmers. In this short documentary, he recounts his life and the fate of his family members who were murdered in Auschwitz.
