About us
The United Nations Information Center in Washington builds support for the values and work of the United Nations in the United States.
We do this by sharing our Organization’s story with the American people and Government and engaging with educational and cultural institutions; civil society; the media; think tanks; and DC-based international financial institutions and regional organizations.
We help United Nations officials to convey to key counterparts in Washington the importance of the work that our Organization carries out for the benefit of Americans and other people across the globe.
The United Nations Information Center is part of the United Nations Department of Global Communications.
The UN system in Washington
A number of United Nations entities have offices in Washington. More information about them is available here.
The United Nations Information Center regularly convenes representatives of the United Nations offices in Washington to exchange information and help ensure an effective approach in the District of Columbia.
Washington, DC – 5 April 2024 – Izumi Nakamitsu, United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs was in Washington, DC. Read more.
Washington, DC - 28 March 2024 - Women’s History Month ends when March does – but work focused on women and girls continues throughout the year. International Women’s Day, which has been celebrated annually since the early 1900s, was expanded to a month-long celebration on its 100th anniversary. Read more.
New York – 25 March 2024 – Yolanda Renee King, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s granddaughter, today joined the President of the UN General Assembly and others to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Read more.
Washington, DC – 21 February 2024 – About 7,000 – that is how many languages people around the globe speak. More than 350 – that is the number of “mother languages” in the United States, a number that includes Native North American tongues like Navajo, Dakota, Apache, and Cherokee. Read more.
Washington, DC - 14 February 2024 - UN officials from the Secretary-General to leaders of UN missions around the world, to staff in some of the most isolated posts across the globe, often travel to Washington to discuss matters of common concern. Read more.
How many girls were in your science and math classes? The answer depends on when you were in school, of course because the share of girls studying science, technology, engineering, and math has snowballed. The range of those STEM fields has grown even faster! Read more.
Washington, DC – 31 January 2024 – The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Amina Mohammed led a high-level delegation to Washington, DC for strategic discussions with the leadership of the World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Financial Corporation (IFC). Read more.
Washington, DC – 27 January 2024 – At the US Holocaust Memorial and Museum, the UN Information Center-Washington team joined hundreds of others in honoring that pledge by reading aloud the names of Holocaust victims and survivors. Read more.
Washington, DC – 18 December 2023 – The United Nations Information Center in Washington, DC (UNIC Washington) had a busy year in 2023 as it engaged in extensive outreach across the United States. Read more.
Washington, DC – 14 December 2023 – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), Catriona Laing, today wrapped up a two-day visit to Washington, DC. Read more.
Washington, DC – 20 November 2023 – As the UN develops a voluntary Code of Conduct for information integrity on digital platforms, it’s holding consultations across the globe. Last week in DC, consultations were held at American University and the UN Foundation. Read more.
Washington, DC – 9 November 2023 – The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Matthias Schmale, today wrapped up a two-day trip to Washington, DC, where he discussed humanitarian, development and peacebuilding challenges and opportunities with interlocutors from the United States. Read more.
Washington, DC – 26 October 2023 – Hundreds of thousands of students participate in Model UN every year across the globe. They often play the role of diplomats, representing the UN’s different Member States. Through researching national positions, drafting resolutions and holding debates, they learn about the UN. Read more.
Washington, DC – 23 October 2023 – Development is about the future, and advancing it requires an agile, flexible and strong operational platform, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Assistant Administrator Angelique Crumbly told a gathering in Washington, DC, to mark United Nations Day, the anniversary of the United Nations’ founding in 1945. Read more.
New York – 19 October 2023 – Today a delegation from Howard University traveled from Washington, DC, to United Nations Headquarters in New York for meetings with United Nations officials and to learn about the Organization’s history, work and values. Read more.
Washington, DC, 11 September 2023 – One of Africa’s landlocked countries, the Central African Republic (CAR) often seems to be forgotten in its troubled neighborhood. Nonetheless, it has seen humanitarian conditions improve in recent years, the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (DSRSG) in CAR, Mohamed Ag Ayoya, said ahead of his visit to Washington, DC, last week. Read more.
Washington, DC, 8 September 2023 – To reap the full benefits of the information age will require global cooperation. Technology’s formidable power has to be harnessed in ways that narrow the digital divide and uphold human rights. Too many people have been left out of the digital revolution. Read more.
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was in Washington, DC, on 26 and 27 April 2023. His time in the US capital included meetings with H.E. Mr. Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State, and the leadership of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and House Foreign Affairs Committee – as well as a visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed was in Washington, DC, from 12 to 14 April 2023, for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings.
The UN and the Middle East
Learn more about how the United Nations cooperates with regional and international partners in efforts to defuse tensions, encourage improvements on the ground, and advance political negotiations toward a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well as a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East.