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A call for action and “clever” leadership emerged from a one-day retreat of the Global Migration Group, convened last Friday, 9 October, outside of Geneva by UNITAR, the current chair of the Group. The Heads and representatives of all 14 GMG member organizations vowed to play an active role to promote a rights- and evidence-based approach to international migration, and to foster greater inter-agency and policy coherence in this field.
GMG Principals expressed concern about ensuring respect for the human rights of migrants in the context of the…
Over the past several years, UNITAR’s Chemicals and Waste Management Programme has assisted countries with a wide variety of projects to address the human and environmental risks posed by mercury. Mercury is a “heavy metal” that, in some forms and if used improperly, can significantly harm humans and the environment. Commencing in Sweden June 2010, UNEP will host the first in a series of Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meetings, which will lead to a global convention on mercury. UNITAR will participate in this process.
As part of this important work, UNITAR has…
February 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - Another innovative project involving collaborative mapping and cyberscience will see the light this year thanks to support from the Open Society Foundations. The Foundations, established by George Soros, have the mission “to increase public access to knowledge, facilitate civil society communication, and protect civil liberties and the freedom to communicate in the digital environment.”
The new project, dubbed ForestWatchers, is one of the Cybermappr applications and a spin off of the renowned Citizen Cyberscience Centre (CCC),…
October 2012, Munich, Germany - At an award ceremony in Munich in October 2012, AnsuR Technologies of Norway, a long standing partner of UNITAR/UNOSAT, won the ESA App Challenge, part of the GMES Masters European Earth Monitoring Competition. The ASIGN crowd-source app, developed by AnsuR and partners within the EU research project GEO-PICTURES, allows citizens worldwide to automatically upload and share geo-referenced pictures, videos and other data.
The application works on Android and iOS operating systems and has been tested by UNOSAT in operational contexts during…
UNITAR-UNOSAT and Radiant.Earth Partner for Greater Impact from Earth Observations
14 June 2017, Geneva, Switzerland, and Washington D.C., USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) through its Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) and Radiant.Earth, have agreed to explore new Earth observation data innovations supporting humanitarian disaster management, global health, climate change, sustainable water management and cultural heritage. With Radiant.Earth’s capacity in combining the best in discovery and dissemination with…
An occasion not to be missed for the Geneva public, this new edition of the Geneva Lecture Series will feature an open debate with the participation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Pascal Lamy - Principals of two international organizations at the cornerstone of the global economic governance architecture. The 6th edition of the Series will take place on 8 December, 16.30-18.30, at a usual meeting point - Assembly Hall of the Palais des Nations. The event will also be broadcast live on www.un.org/webcast.
General public from Geneva and beyond is invited to an event that will…
14-16 June 2011, New York, USA. The UNITAR New York Office held a three-day course on International Migration Law, from 14 to 16 June 2011. This course formed part of the 2011 Migration and Development Seminar Series and was jointly organized with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the MacArthur Foundation.
This programme aimed to inform the diplomatic community in New York and other relevant stakeholders of the latest issues on: international migration law; migration terminology; human rights of migrants;…
The DAE, under the Ministry of Agriculture in Bangladesh, has more than 25,000 workers in their department and is the largest ministry in the country. For more than 23 years, Dr. Mazharul Aziz has worked with the DAE to disseminate information and technologies developed at several national research institutes, directly to farmers at a grass root level. In his department, much of the work has traditionally been done manually. For instance, flood assessments, disaster assessments, land coverage and agricultural disease mapping were all analyzed and estimated without the help…
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported about the work of UNOSAT on volcanoes in its recent website feature “image of the day”, which referred to Volcano Nyiragongo’s activity.
The NASA article says: “Reports of low-level activity at Nyiragongo began in March 2009 and persisted through May, according to the Volcanism Blog. On May 5, 2009, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) released a report of volcanic hotspots at Nyiragongo detected by NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging…
January 2012, Geneva, Switzerland – After over one year of positive research and experimental tests, the UNOSAT team has acquired its first Mini-UAV in late 2011 and placed orders for a second unit in 2012, while a third unit is planned for 2013.
Mini-UAV, or “unmanned aerial vehicle”, are very light and easy-to-fly electric planes carrying digital cameras and able to fly for a limited time in the vicinity of the operator to collect images over a small area. Most of these vehicles are made from lightweight, flexible plastic or foam and weighs less than a kilogram with wing…