The Department of Global Communications is pleased to announce the launch of the global UN Web TV streaming platform in the remaining five official languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish), in addition to the English language version. 

Viewers can watch live and on-demand streaming coverage in all six UN official languages on the web and mobile devices.

For easy access, the content of UN Web TV language websites is organized in an intuitive way. The daily Live schedule page provides viewers with the programming guide on what is expected to be streamed live on every language website, along with information and metadata for each event.

Viewers can copy the direct live link and embed code of each event in advance to share on websites and social media platforms.

The search functionality for each language website enables viewers to type, search and discover video content in any of the six official languages.

The live coverage and on-demand content may vary on each language website, depending on the availability of multilingual live interpretation and language metadata for each event. 

UN Web TV provides the opportunity to its global audience, to follow, directly from the source, live multilingual coverage of meetings of the:

  • General Assembly

  • Security Council

  • Economic and Social Council

  • Human Rights Council

  • International Court of Justice trials

  • high-level events

  • press briefings and media stakeouts

  • UN conferences and side events

The platform also hosts news and feature videos, video messages by the Secretary-General and other UN Officials, as well as UN system videos.

UN Web TV continues to bring other United Nations offices and system bodies in different locations and time zones under its global umbrella.

Currently, UN Web TV provides live coverage for meetings and events held at:

  • United Nations Headquarters in New York

  • United Nations Office at Geneva

  • United Nations Office in Vienna

  • International Court of Justice in The Hague

  • Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome

  • International Labour Organization in Geneva

  • United Nations conferences at any location

We invite you to experience the new websites and follow our coverage in any of the six languages. Subscribe to receive the daily live schedule.  

For more information on how to schedule your event for live coverage on UN Web TV, please contact webcast@un.org.