United Nations Information Service at Geneva

The United Nations Information Service at Geneva (UNIS Geneva) is part of a network of United Nations Information Centres^[1] across the world working to promote greater public understanding of the aims and activities of the United Nations.

UNIS Geneva operates from the United Nations Office at Geneva, the second-biggest of the four major office sites of the United Nations after the UN's main Headquarters in New York (the other two are the Offices in Vienna and Nairobi). It is also the United Nations Information Centre for Switzerland.

The Service provides information services focusing primarily on Geneva-based United Nations activities in the field of human rights, disarmament, development and economic and social issues. It bears a special responsibility for informing the press and the general public on the UN's human rights activities due to the location in Geneva of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and of the annual meetings of the Human Rights Council. UNIS Geneva also highlights disarmament efforts, reporting on the work of the Conference on Disarmament,^[2] which meets in Geneva and is the world's sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations. Relief assistance is also a focus of the Service's work, Geneva being the world capital of humanitarian activity.