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16 July 2025, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – As part of shared commitment to road safety and education and promoting safer mobility in the Dominican Republic, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), the National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation (INTRANT), the Liga Municipal Dominicana (LMD), the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) Dominican Republic and Pernod Ricard have re-introduced the Autosobriety Training Programme, an initiative focused on raising awareness about the risks of alcohol consump...
On 24 August 2025, 25 high school students from Hiroshima Prefecture celebrated the completion of the 2025 UNITAR Hiroshima Youth Ambassador Programme in Hiroshima City.The two-month programme started in June 2025 and was run by UNITAR with the support of the Hiroshima Prefectural Government and Soroptimist International Hiroshima Chuo and in cooperation with the UNITAR Association.The Hiroshima Youth Ambassadors learned about nuclear disarmament and peacebuilding, focusing on human rights and international law, passing on the legacy of atomic bomb survivors, and peace educ...
26 March 2025, Geneva, Switzerland - On the 30th anniversary of the landmark Beijing Declaration, UNITAR convened a virtual side event, "Bridging Gender Gaps and Advancing Equity in Water Governance." In conjunction with World Water Day for the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation, the event emphasised the critical importance of glaciers to freshwater resources. The gathering brought together experts and practitioners to address the inextricable link between gender equity and sustainable water management, reinforcing that women's inclusion is not simply about fairne...
UNOSAT supports the international humanitarian community since 2003, when it launched a Rapid Mapping Service, available 24/7 to UN and non-UN humanitarian entities responding to natural disasters and complex emergencies. The service provides maps and geospatial analysis on demand in the context of rapid response and it is funded by donor countries anxious to extend t the humanitarians the benefit of satellite technology.
Strengthening the service with a series of ad-hoc protocols with individual agencies has been a priority for UNOSAT over the past few years, to maximise…
24 September 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - During an information session for government delegates to the United Nations organised by OCHA at the Palais des Nations, UNOSAT was unanimously commended for its work in providing the humanitarian community at large with satellite imagery analysis and near-real time rapid mapping.
The meeting was called by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs specifically to inform UN member states about the UNOSAT Humanitarian Rapid Mapping Service, which has turned 10 years old this year. In opening the meeting, Rashid…
18 November 2013, Bangkok - UNOSAT joined some 100 disaster management professionals representing 20 countries from Asia and the Pacific for a two-day meeting convened by OCHA to discuss ideas and best practices in humanitarian assistance and emergency preparedness. This was the fifth meeting of the “Regional Humanitarian Partnership” in the region. Olivier Van Damme of UNOSAT who attended the meeting from the UNOSAT office in Bangkok says "there is a growing sense of partnership building in this region and humanitarians are driving some of this efforts forward. The…
Women Negotiating Peace: Empowering Women, 20 Years After Beijing
18 - 19 March 2015, New York, USA – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York Office carried out the fourth Women Negotiating Peace: Empowering Women, 20 years after Beijing. A two-day workshop was organized in a framework of the UNITAR Negotiations Workshops’ series and aimed to promote participation of women in the sphere of negotiation, peace, and development and to recap the developments since the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action. The workshop aimed to…
Ban-Minamata Side Event at the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
11 May 2015, Geveva, Switzerland - In the context of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs), UNITAR, the BRS secretariat and the Interim Secretariat of the Minamata Convention collaborated to host a side event:
“Ratification and Early Implementation of the Minamata Convention and of Basel Convention Ban Amendment: Opportunities for efficient and effective actions”
With such a focus in mind, panellists came…
Government of Switzerland Supports INDC Development Process in Tajikistan
17-18 June 2015, Dushanbe, Tajikistan – UNITAR, ZOI Environment Network and the Government of Tajikistan, with support from the Government of Switzerland, organized a two day Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) Kick-off Meeting on 17-18 June 2015, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. INDCs are contributions that countries make towards the stabilization of greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration in the atmosphere as part of the preparation for COP21 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (…
UNITAR Team Visits Islamabad to Kick-off the Third-Party Monitoring (TPM)
24 -27 October 2017, Islamabad, Pakistan - After three full days of meetings in Islamabad, Pakistan, the Pakistan Evidence and Learning Platform (PELP) moves forward despite some containers in the middle of Islamabad's streets that made some short routes feel a bit longer.
The PELP team met with UK Department for International Development (DFID) and various project stakeholders and partners: UNDP, UNICEF, UNDSS and UNRCO, the Multi-Year Humanitarian Programme (MYHP) Consortia Leads…