3 December 2012, Hiroshima, Japan - On the strength of its long-running Series on Sea and Human Security, the UNITAR Hiroshima Office is co-sponsoring the Second Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Blue Economy Forum, being held in Tianjin, China, on December 6 - 7 2012.
Organized by the State Oceanic Administration of China, the Forum is co-sponsored also by:

November 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR’s Multilateral Diplomacy Programme has published the list of e-Learning courses available in 2013.
MDP’s new courses can be found on the e-Learning calendar for 2013.  If you have not yet had the opportunity to take UNITAR's courses, such as "Introduction to the United Nation System" or "Multilateral Conferences and Diplomacy", you will have the chance at the beginning of 2013.

14 November 2012, Geneva, Switzerland  - GIS, or Geographic Information Systems, is each year a less mysterious term also thanks to initiatives like GIS-Day.

Hiroshima, Japan, 22 November 2012: The UNITAR Hiroshima office is proud to be hosting 35 representatives of the Ministry of Finance of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan at a week long capacity-development workshop examining Public Financial Management.

22 November 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - “Citizen Cyberscience is a tremendous opportunity for scientists in developing regions, because it offers them valuable support from thousands of volunteers, and enhanced global exposure for their research. Projects like ForestWatchers in Brazil are trailblazing what we think will become a global trend”.

7 November 2012, Hiroshima, Japan | Singapore | Kabul, Afghanistan - The final Web-Seminar in the seven-month-long UNITAR Fellowship for Afghanistan programme took place recently, connecting Hiroshima, Singapore and Kabul. The 59 Fellows, 10 Coaches and 4 Afghan Resource Persons of the 2012 Cycle, joined by representatives of UNITAR and the Ministry of Finance of Afghanistan, gathered at the Ministry to receive a presentation delivered by Ms. Winifred Loh of Singapore.

5 - 6 November 2012, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo - A training workshop on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) was held on 5 - 6 November 2012 in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. The workshop brought together 37 participants from government, industry, civil society, and academia representing the sectors related to the GHS, as well as a resource person from UNITAR.

19 November 2012, Tokyo, Japan - The UNITAR Diplomatic Training Series in Tokyo, run by the UNITAR Hiroshima Office, recently concluded its fourth session. Entitled Rio+20 and the Green Economy, the 4-day session saw representatives from 17 Embassies in Tokyo in attendance. With faculty members from UNITAR, and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the session examined international developments leading up to, and in the aftermath of, the Rio+20 Summit earlier in 2012, as well as the concepts behind the Green Economy.

8 - 9 November 2012, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo - A

Since earlier in 2012 UNITAR/UNOSAT and the Swiss Development Cooperation are engaged in implementing a water management and capacity development project in Chad. This project, also known with its francophone name of “ResEAU”, has the ambitious aim of strengthening national capacity in the area of water resources by using mapping combined with  capacity development techniques tailored to the local requirements and designed together with Swiss and Chadian partners.