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The New York Office of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) organized on 1 September a seminar exploring the links between democracy and development, a vast and complex issue where political rhetoric often supplants rational analysis.
30 September 2011. UNITAR is featured on the Euronews Learning World Programme, a special edition on “Teaching Peace”. It will be aired 16 times between the 30 September and the 4 October 2011. The interviewee, Ms.
27 September 2011, Geneva, Switzerland – Only one month into its new Data-in-hand strategy, UNOSAT production has reached unprecedented timeliness approaching real-time analysis in the areas of humanitarian rapid mapping.
In responding to the growing demand of knowledge transfer for in-country capacity development, UNOSAT experts have restructured the Programme’s portfolio of training and technical assistance tools.
As president of the managing committee of the International Training Center for Local Actors in Curitiba (CIFAL Curitiba) and president of the Paraná State Industry Federation, Rodrigo da Rocha Loures congratulated Itaipu Binacional’s president, Jorge Samek, for receiving the Americas Award 2011, which highlights public initiatives and officials that contribute for economic and social development in the Americas.
Over the last century, the face of warfare has significantly changed. Interstate wars are now relatively rate and conflicts have become more complex, often involving an internal and a regional/international dimensions. In this type of conflicts, the battlefield is not clearly delimitated and civilians are often caught up in the hostilities as victims or participants – a distinction that is sometimes hard to draw.
This joint South Centre/UNITAR e-Learning course stands out as it focuses on the main challenges facing IP policymakers in developing countries in designing and implementing suitable IP frameworks and policies. International debates on intellectual property (IP) are becoming increasingly focused on the need to integrate a “development dimension” into IP policy making.
UNITAR's CIFAL Jeju hosts Localizing Disaster Risk Management and Resilience training with CADRI