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A view of Geneva by Frances Elizabeth Wynne, 4 August 1858

L'Escalade is what Genevans call the failed surprise attack of 12 December 1602 by troops sent by Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, to take Geneva. This imaginative image was drawn by Matthias Quad, or the workshop of Frans Hogenberg, around 1603. Invaders are pictured crossing the moat in the center left while reinforcements are entering Plainpalais at the bottom. A column of defenders is in the center, headed toward the Savoyards. Lake Léman is at center top.

1943 sketch by Franklin Roosevelt of the UN original three branches: The Four Policemen, an executive branch, and an international assembly of forty UN member states

The Allée des Nations, with the flags of the member countries

The UN in 1945: founding members in light blue, protectorates and territories of the founding members in dark blue

Satellite view of Geneva; Cointrin Airport is centre left.

The headquarters of the World Health Organization

Dag Hammarskjöld was a particularly active secretary-general from 1953 until his death in 1961.

The Geneva area seen from the Salève in France. The Jura mountains are on the horizon.

World Intellectual Property Organization headquarters

Kofi Annan, secretary-general from 1997 to 2006

Tatiana Valovaya, Russia, Director-General since 2019.

Flags of member nations at the United Nations Headquarters, seen in 2007

Average temperature and precipitation 1961–1990

Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet general secretary, addressing the UN General Assembly in December 1988

Coat of arms of Geneva as part of the pavement in front of the Reformation Wall, 2013

Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, demonstrates a vial with alleged Iraq chemical weapon probes to the UN Security Council on Iraq war hearings, 5 February 2003

The Flowered Clock at the Quai du Général-Guisan (English Garden), during the 2012 Geneva Festival

Current secretary-general, António Guterres

The ICJ ruled that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 did not violate international law.

Apartment buildings in the Quartier des Grottes

Under Sukarno, Indonesia became the first and only country to leave the United Nations.

Geneva, with Lake Geneva in the background

A Nepalese soldier on a peacekeeping deployment providing security at a rice distribution site in Haiti during 2010

Reformation Wall in Geneva; from left to right: William Farel, John Calvin, Theodore Beza, and John Knox

The UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus was established in 1974 following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

Eleanor Roosevelt with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1949

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Three former directors of the Global Smallpox Eradication Programme reading the news that smallpox has been globally eradicated in 1980

In Jordan, UNHCR remains responsible for the Syrian refugees and the Zaatari refugee camp.

The 2001 Nobel Peace Prize to the UN—diploma in the lobby of the UN Headquarters in New York City

Marking of the UN's 70th anniversary – Budapest, 2015

The World Intellectual Property Organization.

The assembly hall of the Palace of Nations.

International Committee of the Red Cross (CICR)

Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Mallet House and Museum international de la Réforme

The United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG, Office des Nations Unies à Genève) in Geneva, Switzerland, is one of the four major offices of the United Nations where numerous different UN agencies have a joint presence.

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The UN is headquartered on international territory in New York City, and has other main offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna, and The Hague (home to the International Court of Justice).

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Geneva is a global city, a financial centre, and a worldwide centre for diplomacy due to the presence of numerous international organizations, including the headquarters of many agencies of the United Nations and the Red Cross.

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Its site—like UN headquarters buildings in Geneva, Vienna, and Nairobi—is designated as international territory.

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Although they do not directly contribute to the local economy, the city of Geneva is also host to the world's largest concentration of international organisations and UN agencies, such as the Red Cross, the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, the International Telecommunication Union, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, and the International Labour Organization, as well as the European headquarters of the United Nations.

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The first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.

Anachronous world map showing member states of the League during its 26-year history.

The 1864 Geneva Convention, one of the earliest formulations of international law

The League to Enforce Peace published this full-page promotion in The New York Times on Christmas Day 1918. It resolved that the League "should ensure peace by eliminating causes of dissension, by deciding controversies by peaceable means, and by uniting the potential force of all the members as a standing menace against any nation that seeks to upset the peace of the world".

On his December 1918 trip to Europe, Woodrow Wilson gave speeches that "reaffirmed that the making of peace and the creation of a League of Nations must be accomplished as one single objective".

In 1924, the headquarters of the League was named "Palais Wilson", after Woodrow Wilson, who was credited as the "Founder of the League of Nations"

Palace of Nations, Geneva, the League's headquarters from 1936 until its dissolution in 1946

Child labour in a coal mine, United States, c. 1912

A map of the world in 1920–45, which shows the League of Nations members during its history

Chinese delegate addresses the League of Nations concerning the Manchurian Crisis in 1932.

Emperor Haile Selassie I going into exile in Bath, England via Jerusalem

The Gap in the Bridge; the sign reads "This League of Nations Bridge was designed by the President of the U.S.A."
Cartoon from Punch magazine, 10 December 1920, satirising the gap left by the US not joining the League.

World map showing member states of the League of Nations (in green and red) on 18 April 1946, when the League of Nations ceased to exist.

The main organization ceased operations on 20 April 1946 but many of its components were relocated into the new United Nations.

On 1 November 1920, the headquarters of the League was moved from London to Geneva, where the first General Assembly was held on 15 November 1920.

Long live the United Nations."The Assembly passed a resolution that "With effect from the day following the close of the present session of the Assembly [i.e., April 19], the League of Nations shall cease to exist except for the sole purpose of the liquidation of its affairs as provided in the present resolution." A Board of Liquidation consisting of nine persons from different countries spent the next 15 months overseeing the transfer of the League's assets and functions to the United Nations or specialised bodies, finally dissolving itself on 31 July 1947. The archive of the League of Nations was transferred to the United Nations Office at Geneva and is now an entry in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.