🌍 No matter where we live we share one planet, one future.
🎉 For 80 years, the #UN has worked to maintain peace & security, protect human rights and support sustainable development.
📸 Discover 200+ stories at #UN80 expo. Thank you, Jasmine Abdulcadir & Yves Lador, for sharing yours.

#PinkOctober comes to an end but we continue to raise awareness about the importance of prevention and routine screening for the early detection of breast cancer.

#BreastCancerAwareness

🖼️ At the exhibition opening of “Promemoria - Sending out an SOS” by EMA, and @nuclearban.bsky.social, Austria emphasized its commitment to #nucleardisarmament which is not a mere policy goal, but a necessity.
🚨 Eliminate #nuclearweapons before they eliminate us!

📸 by Alistair Burnett

🇦🇹 Austria participated in today’s #LLDC Ministerial Meeting in Geneva, discussing how trade and investment can drive resilient and sustainable prosperity for landlocked developing countries.

🤝 Strong partnerships are key.

#LLDC #UNCTAD #AwazaPoA

Secretary General for Foreign Affairs, Amb. Nikolaus Marschik, joined global leaders, experts, changemakers & civil society to discuss trade, investment & digital transformation at the opening of #UNCTAD16 in Geneva.

© UNCTAD Photo (official group photo)

#TeamBMEIA

UNVFVT is facing a severe funding shortage. In 2025, Austria contributed 250.000 Euros, showing our commitment to the prohibition of torture and to the rights of survivors.

We call on UNMS to consider increasing their support!

#RightsOfSurvivors #FundingCrisis #OHCHR

At #ExCom Austria reiterated its unwavering support for #UNHCR, the route-based approach and multilateralism.

We thank @FilippoGrandi for a decade of strong leadership.

👉 Sign up until Sunday to join the Vienna Conference on Combatting Human Trafficking 2025!

At #HRC60, Austria reiterated its strong support for #Ukraine at the Interactive Dialogue with High Commissioner Volker Türk, 🇦🇹 called on Russia to immediately cease torture and provide independent monitors full access to all PoWs and civilian detainees.

#HumanRights #StandWithUkraine

🌍 Vienna Conference on Combatting Human Trafficking 2025

📅 16 October 2025 | 📍 Vienna School of International Studies & Online
 
👉 Register until 12 October and join the discussion: eventmaker.at/bundesminist...
 
#ViennaConference2025 #HumanTrafficking #Resilience #Prevention

It was a pleasure for 🇦🇹 Amb. Schweitzer to meet the new Permanent Representative of Bhutan in Geneva, H.E. Amb. Tshering Lhadn, and to address topics of common interest, such as the process of Bhutan joining the #WTO and our bilateral and multilateral cooperation.

Special Rapporteur Katzarova reported to #HRC60 on the expansion of repressive tools to silence dissent and restrict civic space in Russia.

👉 Press release: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

🇦🇹 Statement: www.bmeia.gv.at/oev-genf/spe...

#HumanRights

The Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine presented an update on human rights violations, including effects of widespread and systematic drone attacks on emergency and rescue services.
 
Press release: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

🇦🇹 Statement: www.bmeia.gv.at/oev-genf/spe...

#HumanRights

Important report on the intersection between older persons' rights to social protection and to work discussed at #HRC60

👉 Find our full statement here: www.bmeia.gv.at/oev-genf/spe...

#HumanRights #HumanRightsForAll

40 Years of Austria acting against global warming 🌍

👉 Find out more on www.un.org/en/observanc... and www.un.org/en/observanc...

#globalwarming #stopglobalwarming #climatechange #environment #savetheplanet

#ArmsTradeTreaty remains a key instrument for regulating international trade in conventional arms, for preventing and eradicating their diversion. 🇦🇹 supports efforts towards its universalization. #CSP11

Only humans can stop nuclear wars from happening!

In 2018, 🇦🇹 ratified the Treaty on the
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons #TPNW.

The @nuclearban.bsky.social exhibition in Geneva „Artists Against the Bomb" is a powerful reminder that the world must get rid of nuclear weapons.

Today we join Ukraine in celebrating its Independence Day. In Geneva & beyond, we are with you for as long as it takes. #StandWithUkraine️ 🇪🇺🇺🇦

On #Ukraine's #IndependenceDay we stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. This includes continued support in areas such as humanitarian demining!
Let’s seize the current momentum to end the war & achieve a comprehensive, just & lasting #peace.

On the occasion of today’s #WorldHumanitarianDay, 🇦🇹 supports the 🇪🇺 message:

Saving lives should not cost lives! Humanitarian aid workers are #NotATarget!

Thanks, @eu_echo (X) and @euatun.bsky.social for sharing these heartbreaking figures!

Happy to see strong support for the negotiations for a global #PlasticsTreaty, aiming for binding measures across the entire life cycle of plastics, by 🇦🇹🇺🇳 colleagues A. Kreilhuber, M. Wilson, and the Canadian Mission.
The Thinker’s Burden by Benjamin Von Wong is a reminder of the urgency.