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9 June 2021, New York, USA - Following the Report of the Secretary-General (E/2021/49), the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR) Headquarters and its office in New York started preparations for delivering the report to the United Nations Member States, and consultations in order to produce the legislative response from the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations Member States.
After consultations, the Permanent Mission of Guatemala took the lead in facilitating the draft resolution, covering three informal consultations vi...
26 July 2021, Hiroshima, Japan – The world can potentially be destroyed in a nuclear cataclysm at any moment. It only needs a small misunderstanding or technical error – never mind war between nuclear-armed nations – to unleash weapons of mass destruction that would kill millions and likely render large tracts of the earth uninhabitable for any who survive.
Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo on 10 December 2017, spoke eloquently in defence of a ban on such weapons.
“Nine nations st...
Over 250 Sudanese learners completed the first phase of UNITAR “Rapid Assistance for Sudan: Promoting Socioeconomic Stability through Institutional Capacity and Livelihood Development” training programme on 21 December 2024.Almost two years after war erupted, Sudan continues to endure instability, economic decline and the forced displacement of millions.This Japan-funded online training programme aims to equip learners with digital and entrepreneurial skills to help Sudanese nationals build their climate-resilient and innovative businesses to address food insecurity an...
07 March 2025, New York, United States – In February 2025, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in collaboration with the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and the Kingdom of the Netherlands, successfully hosted the eighth iteration of the Women in International Security and Cyberspace Fellowship. Held at the United Nations Headquarters and the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations, the programme brought together 38 women from developing countries to prepare them for the upcoming tenth substantive sessio...
UNITAR is introducing a series of policy briefs to highlight participant voices from the 2024 UNITAR Leaders for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Sea and Human Security Training Programme.The policy briefs provide actionable recommendations to address pressing sea and human security issues, including climate change, natural disasters, and environmental degradation.The first instalment features top three policy briefs selected by a panel of experts, focusing on deep-sea mining, maritime decarbonization, and community-based Marine Protected Areas. Additional policy bri...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres visited Hiroshima on 6 August 2022 to commemorate the 77th year since the atomic bombing of the city.
Young activists across Japan met the Secretary-General for an informal dialogue session to discuss the youth's challenges and innovative solutions for achieving a peaceful, more secure and sustainable world – one without nuclear weapons.
The Power of Youth from Hiroshima was co-organized by United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), United Nations Information Centre, Tokyo (UNIC Tokyo), United Nations Institute for ...
Sustainable development is ultimately about changing the ways we think and do things in our private and professional lives. It requires that all people around the world benefit from learning opportunities that can empower them to promote this change. UN SDG: Learn was created in 2019 to respond to this challenge by making the available learning from UN and other partners easily accessible around the world and by helping learning providers broker partnerships to develop new services and meet the needs of diverse constituencies.
10 July 2023, New York, USA - UN SDG: Le...
9 June 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - A recent G20 communique reflected a growing shared concern about the impact of COVID-19 on health networks in the countries with limited response capacities. The communique stated that the leaders were “gravely concerned with the serious risks posed to all countries, particularly developing and least developed countries, and notably in Africa and small-island-states”, and reinforced their commitment to “strengthen capacity building and technical assistance, especially to at-risk communities”.
According to Africanews, ...
15 June 2020, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR’s Division for Prosperity successfully completed a Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) -funded pilot programme on “Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development: Unlocking Women’s Entrepreneurship through Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Afghanistan and Iraq” which benefitted 32 women entrepreneurs from various sectors in the two countries.
Launched on 31 January 2020, the 3-month Programme offered the participants an exceptional learning experience where they were engaged and challenged to learn, in...
8 September, New York USA, virtual seminar – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Office in New York successfully launched the Joint Swiss-UNITAR Briefing on United Nations Budgetary Matters training series on Tuesday, 7th September 2021. The four-half day virtual training programme, co-organized with the Permanent Mission of Switzerland, caters to the needs of the incoming delegates of the United Nations General Assembly’s Fifth Committee. The first two sessions have directly benefited more than 100 delegates each session from numerous Member Sta...