On the occasion of the Third session of the Advisory Board of the UNITAR Peacekeeping Training Programme a well-attended high-level Round Table discussion entitled: “They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children.

29 September 2011, Geneva, Switzerland – UNOSAT has released a 2010 human security report elaborated by its satellite imagery analysts and GIS experts to monitor the evolution of piracy off the coast of Somali during the period 2005-2009. The report had been in circulation to selected UN and non-UN partners and agencies and is now publicly available on the web.The report focuses on Somali pirate attacks based on a detailed geospatial study of available data between 2005 and 2009.

The UNITAR Peacekeeping Training Programme held the Third Session of its Advisory Board in Geneva on Wednesday, 12 October 2011. This important annual event, presided by its Chair, Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, former Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations was also attended by four of its eminent members: Lieutenant General the Honourable Roméo A.

12 October 2011, Geneva, Switzerland.  UNOSAT work in support to the international humanitarian and human rights communities was at the centre of discussions at the UNITAR-WMO Symposium on “leveraging satellite solutions for global challenges” that concluded successfully in Geneva on 12 October 2011.

12-13 October 2011, Geneva, Switzerland. The workshop on “Regional Integration: Key Negotiation Challenges Moving Forward”, which was directed by Dr. El Hadji A. Diouf (Executive Director, African Agency for Trade and Development) and Dr.

With the generous support of the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC), Indonesia and Malawi will join Benin, Uganda and the Dominican Republic as the fourth and fifth pilot country to start a UN CC: Learn project in 2011. The five countries were selected by the UN CC: Learn Steering Group in July 2011 from among 23 countries who had submitted an application to participate in the UN CC: Learn Pilot Implementation Phase, 2011-2013.

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Bangkok, Thailand, 11 October 2011 (IRIN) - As residents across flood-ravaged Southeast Asia look up to the skies and brace for more rain, satellites 35,800km away are looking down on them.

5 to 6 October 2011, Santo Domingo – The Domican Republic held its National Planning and Inception Workshop from 5 to 6 October 2011 with the participation of UNITAR.

UNITAR and DevInfo partnered to train national actors on the new DiMonitoring tool for improving the creation and implementation of national to local development plans.

28-30 September 2011, Vienna, Austria. One of the three international UN headquarters, Vienna provides an exciting, yet sometimes confusing working environment for diplomats.