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Main events of the year
Organizer Event Date Location Link
Human Rights Council / HRC 58th session


Palais des Nations
Meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions in 2025


Geneva International Conference Centre (CICG)
78th World Health Assembly


WHO Headquarters and live webcast
Eighth session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2025)


International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG)
113th Session of the International Labour Conference


Palais des Nations and ILO headquarters
Human Rights Council / HRC 59th session


Palais des Nations
ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment 2025


Palais des Nations
Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO: 66th Series of Meetings


WIPO Headquarters and Online
AI for Good Global Summit 2025


Geneva and online
Next events
Organizer Event Date Location Link
Conference on Disarmament (Part I)


Palais des Nations
Human Rights Council / HRC 58th session


Palais des Nations
Side Events | Human Rights Council / HRC 58th session


Palais des Nations
Human Rights Committee (CCPR) / 143rd session


Palais des Nations
ITU-T Study Group 15 | ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Networks, technologies and infrastructures for transport, access and home​


ITU Headquarters
Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) / 28th session


Palais des Nations
Public Events
Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks | HNPW 2025


CICG Geneva & online
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) / 20th Pre-Sessional Working Group


Palais des Nations
Informal Meeting on through-life conventional ammunition management


Room XXVII (Palais des Nations)
UNECE Resource Management Week 2025


Palais des Nations
WIPO Independent Advisory Oversight Committee (IAOC): 76th session


WIPO Headquarters
Working Party on Pollution and Energy (92nd session)


Palais des Nations
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade


WTO, Geneva
Regional preparatory meeting for the 2025 COPs for the Eastern Europe region


Geneva
Public Events
Global Conference on AI, Security and Ethics 2025


Palais des Nations and online
Trade Policy Review Body - Cambodia

WTO, Geneva
Public Events
Webinar – Cefiderocol access project: Where are we now?

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Online
Public Events
Webinar #2 on Micro-/Nanoplastics: The Marine Environment

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Online
Public Events
Shaping the future of clinical trials: Building an ethical, efficient, and equitable ecosystem

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Online
Public Events
WRRC Webinar: Restoring Livelihoods: Solutions for Disaster-Induced Displacement and Resilient Recovery

Online
Public Events
Virtual Consultation for the 2025 Thematic Reports | UN Special Rapporteur on the right to development

Online
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reform (FFSR)

WTO, Geneva
Public Events
Festival Histoire et Cité | Quand les droits des animaux influencent la paix mondiale


Uni Dufour , Hall d'entrée
Public Events
Launch webinar: Addressing Dementia in refugees and migrants- Epidemiology, public health implications and global responses

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Online
HRC Working Group on Arbitrary Detention / 102nd session


Palais des Nations
57th meeting of the WHO International Working Group for Drug Statistics Methodology


Online
Committee on Trade and Environment


WTO, Geneva
Public Events
Briefing on 2025 meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions (French)

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Online
Public Events
Webinar | Online Standards Development (OSD) – Latest Release (4.2)

Online
Implementing sustainable infrastructure and nature-based solutions in the ECE Region: Opportunities and co-benefits based on UNECE Environmental Performance Reviews

Palais des Nations
Public Events
SIDS Solutions Dialogue: Enhancing timely access to quality data and statistics in SIDS

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Online
Implementing sustainable infrastructure and nature-based solutions in the ECE Region: b

Palais des Nations
Committee on Agriculture - Special Session

WTO, Geneva
Public Events
Webinar | Cocaine connections: Links between the Western Balkans and South America

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Online
Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights / 60th session


Palais Wilson
Public Events
2025 UNECE Regional Forum on Sustainable Development RFSD


Palais des Nations & Live on UN Web TV
Public Events
Webinar | Project finance for carbon activities

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Online
Informal Group of Experts on the application of digital solutions to the marking of the URVIS identifier - 3rd session

Palais des Nations
Committee on Rules of Origin

WTO, Geneva
Maximizing Impact: Strategic Planning for Technical Assistance and Capacity Building (WIPO/IP/DEV/GE/25)

WIPO Headquarters and Online
Superintelligent Agents Pose Catastrophic Risks: Can Scientist AI Offer a Safer Path? CERN Colloquium

Main Auditorium (CERN)
Public Events
Launch of the Technology and Innovation Report 2025

Informal Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures

WTO, Geneva
30th Anniversary event for the Committee on Rules of Origin

WTO, Geneva
Public Events
Documentary Film Screening: Another Summer

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Maison de la paix
Public Events
International Day of Conscience

Building E, Room XVII, United Nations - Palais des Nations Avenue de la Paix 14
Fifth Meeting of the Special Tripartite Committee established under the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)


ILO Headquarters
Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) / 40th session


Palais des Nations
Committee Against Torture (CAT) / 82nd session


Palais des Nations
HRC Working Group on the use of mercenaries / 54th session


Room IX (Palais des Nations)
International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Palais des Nations
Working Party on General Safety Provisions (129th session)


Palais des Nations
Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD), 28th session


Palais des Nations
18th meeting of the Implementation Committee under the Water Convention


Palais des Nations
Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights : 46th Session


WIPO Headquarters and Online
2025 UNIDIR's Women in AI Fellowship


Room XXIII (Palais des Nations)
Public Events
Webinar | UN SDG 3: Advancing healthcare through IEC International Standards

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Online
Urban Greenhouse Gas Conference and Stakeholder Summit 2025


WMO Headquarters
Fourth Forum | Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6)


Palais des Nations
15th session of the Ad Hoc Committee on the elaboration of complementary standards


Palais Wilson
Public Events
Exhibition on women in science, technology, and innovation for sustainable and inclusive development


Gallery space, 3rd Floor of the E-Building, Palais des Nations
Public Events
Online conversation | Surviving the Cuts: Imagining Fundraising Beyond Public Donors Support

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Online
Public Events
What Now and What Next: Global Foresight for 2025 to 2035

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Geneva Centre for Security Policy and online
13th meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) for a WHO instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response – resumed


WHO Headquarters
Public Events
Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures: global action for women and newborns

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Online
Public Events
Embedded journalism – challenges of accuracy and impartiality, and its impact on the freedom of the press

Domaine de Penthes, Chemin de l’Impératrice 18
Public Events
Resilience Coffee | Resilient Transformation: Reimagining Human-Centered Organizations in Times of Crisis

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Online
Meeting of the Group of Experts on National Accounts


Palais des Nations
ITU-T Study Group 3 | Tariff and accounting principles and international telecommunication/ICT economic and policy issues


ITU Headquarters
ITU-T Study Group 17: Security


ITU Headquarters
27th meeting of the Malaria Policy Advisory Group (MPAG)


Online
Public Events
Lunch Briefing | International Law in a Shameless World

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Maison de la paix
Public Events
Briefing on the 8th session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction

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Villa Rigot and online
71st Session of the Economic Commission for Europe: Climate action and resilient infrastructure for a sustainable future


Palais des Nations
Public Events
Super Quantum ! Exploring quantum physics through comic and superheroes

Auditorium Sergio Marchionne (CERN)
Information meeting on the 49th session of the UPR Working Group

Room VIII (Palais des Nations)
Public Events
Les super-pouvoirs de l'Univers - Ateliers BD et sciences au CERN

Lab A (CERN Portail de la Science )
Cérémonie du Prix Perception Change 2025

Nyon
Déjeuner-débat avec Lech Walesa

Hotel Warwick
Council for Trade in Goods


WTO, Geneva
Informal Council for Trade in Goods - Second Informal Session on Digital Tools

WTO, Geneva
Public Events
Online Webinar | AI and the End of Diplomacy?

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Online
Public Events
What will social development look like in 2030? Beyond 2030: The Future of Social Development in a Changing World Beyond 2030: The Future of Social Development in a Changing World

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Maison de la paix
Public Events
Academic-Level Discourse on the Turkic World: Exploring Opportunities for Cooperation

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Chemin Eugene-Rigot 2D
Sustainability Summit 2025

EBU Headquarters
27th session of the Working Group on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment


Palais des Nations
Expert workshop on the role of the family and family-oriented approaches, policies and programmes in the promotion and protection of human rights and in sustainable development


Palais des Nations
Assemblée générale de la FGC

Genève
Global Leadership Forum Summit


Geneva
Public Events
Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge 2025


Online
Public Events
Journée Portes ouvertes de la formation continue

Boulevard du Pont-d'Arve 40
Public Events
WRRC Webinar: Driving Resilience: The Critical Role of Private Sector’s Readiness for Recovery

Online
Public Events
20th anniversary of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries: Past Achievements & Future Challenges in combating mercenarism and mercenary-related activities.

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Room IX (Palais des Nations)
Public Events
Quelle stratégie pour renforcer la Genève internationale ?

Domaine de Penthes, Chemin de l’Impératrice 18
Public Events
L’humanitaire, un geste asymétrique ?

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Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge, Avenue de la paix 17
ITU Workshop on the “Security and Privacy for Digital Twin and Metaverse ”

Online
Public Events
Déjeuner-débat avec Monsieur Gilbert F. Houngbo, Directeur général de l’Organisation Internationale du Travail (OIT)

Restaurant Vieux-Bois, Genève
Council for Trade in Services - Special Session

WTO, Geneva
Informal Committee on Safeguards

WTO, Geneva
Council for Trade in Goods

WTO, Geneva
Meeting of Chairpersons of the HR Treaty Bodies / 37th session


Palais des Nations
Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on regulatory framework of activities of private military and security companies / 6th session


Palais des Nations
WIPO ICT Leadership Dialogue (WILD): 1st session


WIPO Headquarters
Radiocommunication Advisory Group (RAG) | 32nd meeting


ITU Headquarters and online
Subcommittee on Wages of Seafarers of the Joint Maritime Commission


ILO Headquarters
Public Events
Photo-exhibition on Art & Calligraphy of the Constitution of India

Palais des Nations
Public Events
International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

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Room XX, Palais des Nations
Informal consultative meeting on multi-year budgeting

Palais des Nations, Room XXIII
Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) Plenary Meeting


ITU Headquarters
2025 Meeting of the Group on Capacity Building Initiatives


ITU Headquarters
OEIGWG on TNCs and OBEs | First intersessional thematic consultation


Palais des Nations
Public Events
WRRC Webinar: Unlocking Financial Potential: Scalable Solutions for Resilient Recovery

Online
Ad Hoc Working Group on the Harmonization of RID/ADR/ADN with the UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (12th session)


Palais des Nations
Trade Policy Review Body - Sierra Leone

WTO, Geneva
Public Events
Nature-Positive Economy Q&A

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Online
Trade and Development Board, 34th special session


Palais des Nations
Public Events
L'Intelligence Artificielle : Un état des lieux des risques et des opportunités pour la Paix et la Sécurité Internationales

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Salle VIII, Palais des Nations et en ligne
Public Events
Les multinationales au coeur d’un nouvel âge de l’impérialisme. Quels enjeux pour leur régulation ?

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Uni-Mail, MS130
Public Events
Speaker Series (Online) | When Flags Change: Negotiating with Authorities under Sanctions

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Online
Standing Committee on Health Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response: sixth meeting


WHO Headquarters
Group of Experts on Gender Statistics


Palais des Nations
Res. 54/16 Expert consultation on the update to the technical guidance on the application of a HRBA to the elimination of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity

Room VIII (Palais des Nations)
Public Events
Blue Table Webinar | Restituting Cultural Heritage and Living Together Anew

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Online
Launch of Right to Food Dialogue Series Briefing Session on The Human Right to Adequate Food

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H.379 (Palais des Nations) & Online
6th Meeting of TDAG Working Group on Future Study Group Questions

Virtual Event
Public Events
François Nordmann, ancien Ambassadeur de Suisse et chroniqueur, face à la malice des temps

Domaine de Penthes, Chemin de l’Impératrice 18
Expert consultation on preventable maternal mortality and morbidity

Room VIII (Palais des Nations)
Briefing on the report of the ACABQ on the 2025 programme budget

Virtual
Trade Policy Review Body - Sierra Leone

WTO, Geneva
HRC Working Group on Business and Human Rights / 41st session


Palais des Nations
Public Events
Speaker Series (Online) | First Things to Do as a Humanitarian Negotiator Following a Regime Change

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Online
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) / 115th session


Palais des Nations
Working Party on Lighting and Light-Signalling (92nd session)


Palais des Nations
Second General Meeting of the Global Coordination Mechanism on NCDs (GCM/NCD)


Online
WIPO Conference – 25th UDRP Anniversary Commemorating 25 years of protecting brands and consumers online: a retrospective and look ahead Geneva

WIPO Headquarters and Online
Public Events
WIPO Conversation 11 - AI and IP: Infrastructure for rights holders and innovation


Online
Expert Group on Conjunctive Management of Transboundary Surface Waters and Groundwaters


Palais des Nations
Second General Meeting of the WHO GCM/NCD


WHO Headquarters
Girls in ICT Day Celebration for Europe: Bridging ALL Divides for an Inclusive Digital Transformation

Online
Public Events
Girls in ICT 2025 - Découverte de l'informatique au CERN

Labo du Portail de la science (CERN)
Meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions in 2025


Geneva International Conference Centre (CICG)
HRC Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances / 136th session


Palais des Nations
HRC Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review / 49th session #UPR49


Room AH (Palais des Nations)
HRC Working Group on Situations / 35th session


Room V (Palais des Nations)
11th session of the Group of Independent Eminent Experts on the Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action


Palais des Nations
Meeting of the Group of Experts on Consumer Price Indices


Palais des Nations
Nice Union - Committee of Experts: 35th Session


WIPO Headquarters and Online
LHC Resources Review Boards Meetings


Council Chamber (CERN)
Trade and Development Commission, 15th session


Palais des Nations
14th session of the Working Party on Land Administration


Palais des Nations
Fourth Meeting of ITU-D Study Group 1 - Enabling environment for meaningful connectivity


ITU Headquarters
Online Launch: The WHO Ageism Scale – A new way to measure ageism

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Online
Committee on Safeguards

WTO, Geneva
Group of Experts on drafting a new legal instrument on the use of automated vehicles in traffic (10th session)


Palais des Nations
Public participation in parliament and its impact on parliamentary democracy: Strengthening legislation for enhanced governance

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Online
ITU-R Working Party 5B | Maritime mobile service including the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS); the aeronautical mobile service and the radiodetermination service


ITU Headquarters
Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures - Special Meeting followed by Regular Committee

WTO, Geneva
Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures

WTO, Geneva
Multistakeholder consultation on Global AIDS Strategy

UNAIDS Building
Informal Group of Experts on Combatting Human Trafficking on the Railways

Palais des Nations
Women and IP Symposium for IP Offices


WIPO Headquarters and Online
Visite de l’EPFL et rencontre avec Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

EPFL
Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices

WTO, Geneva
OEIGWG on an OP-CRC to extend the right to free education / 1st session


Palais des Nations
6th Meeting of TDAG Working Group on Streamlining Resolutions

Virtual Event
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) / Working Group on Communications - 99th session

Palais des Nations
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) / 99th session


Palais des Nations
Twenty-fifth Expert Committee on Selection and Use of Essential Medicines


WHO Headquarters
Working Party on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (117th session)


Palais des Nations
Working Party on Passive Safety (77th session)


Palais des Nations
Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP): 34th Session


WIPO Headquarters and Online
Investment, Enterprise and Development Commission, 15th session


Palais des Nations
Public Events
Geneva Science Diplomacy Week


Geneva
Fourth Meeting of ITU-D Study Group 2 - Digital transformation


ITU Headquarters
International Conference on Intellectual Property and Development – The Role of IP and Innovation in Addressing Global Public Health Challenges: Fostering Technological Transfer and Collaborations

WIPO Headquarters and Online
Tripartite Meeting on the review of the functioning of the Governing Body


ILO Headquarters
Meeting of experts to adopt policy guidelines for the promotion of decent work in recycling


ILO Headquarters
Public Events
4th Annual Session of the International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement


Palais des Nations
Group of Experts on the Operationalization of eCMR (8th Session)


Palais des Nations
Retreat on Sustainable Agriculture in the Multilateral Trading System

WTO, Geneva
Horizons 2025


EBU Headquarters
GATE Summit 2025: Accelerating access to assistive technology


WHO Headquarters & Online
Meeting of the Expert Group on Environmental Performance Reviews / 39th session


Palais des Nations
GATE Summit 2025: Accelerating access to assistive technology


WHO Headquarters
9th UNECE International Public-Private Partnerships Forum


Palais des Nations
53st Board Meeting


Geneva
113th Council meeting


Geneva
Public Events
2nd Preparatory Committee for the sixteenth session of the Conference (UNCTAD 16)


Palais des Nations
Group of Experts on Passenger Information in Stations and Hubs (2nd session)


Palais des Nations
Group of Experts on Passenger Information in Stations and Hubs (SC.2/INFO) - 2nd session


Palais des Nations
Special session of the Working Party on Rail Transport

Palais des Nations
Special session of the Working Party on Rail Transport (SC.2)

Palais des Nations
ITU-R Working Party 5A | Land mobile service excluding IMT; amateur and amateur-satellite service


ITU Headquarters
ITU-R Working Party 5C | Fixed wireless systems; HF systems in the fixed and land mobile services


ITU Headquarters
Conference on Disarmament (Part II)


Palais des Nations
HRC Open-ended Working group on the Right to Development / 26th session


Room Tempus (Palais des Nations)
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on E-commerce and the Digital Economy, 8th session


Palais des Nations
Generative AI and Official Statistics Workshop 2025


Palais des Nations
Telecommunication Development Advisory Group 2025 (TDAG-25)


ITU Headquarters
Expert workshop to showcase best practices in the promotion of equal nationality rights in law and in practice

Room XVII (Palais des Nations)
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