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21 October 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - During the 2021 World Data Forum (WDF), on the 6th of October 2021 in Bern, Switzerland, UNITAR, UN Statistics Division (UNSD) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in collaboration with the Global Network of Institutions for Statistical Training (GIST), organized a hybrid session “Statistics and Data Smart: Innovative solutions for increasing statistical literacy of the general public”. Conversations focused on strategies and initiatives to improve statistical literacy of different stakeholders from childr...
2024年12月22日、2024年度「国連ユニタール広島青少年大使プログラム」の報告会及び修了式が広島市内で開催されました。同プログラムは、広島から世界へ平和のメッセージを発信する若きリーダーの育成を目指し、広島県とソロプチミスト広島中央からの支援の下で実施されました。この青少年大使プログラムの第2期を修了した広島県内の高校生8名は、平和実現に向けた学びと実践の成果を発表しました。三上知佐国連ユニタール広島事務所長および佐々木茂喜国連ユニタール協会理事長など、関係者より総評が述べられ、未来に向けた若きリーダーへのエールが贈られました。, 2024年12月22日、国連訓練調査研究所（ユニタール）は一般社団法人国連ユニタール協会との共催で、2024年度「国連ユニタール青少年大使プログラム」の報告会及び修了式を広島市内にて開催しました。今年度青少年大使として活動してきた広島県内の高校生8名が平和実現に向けた学びと実践の成果を発表し、核兵器廃絶と恒久平和の実現を目指す次世代のリーダーとしての新たな一歩を踏み出しました。, 2025年に被爆80周年を迎える今、核兵器廃絶と恒久平和の実現に向けた世代を超えた連携がこれまで以上に求められています。国連ユニタールと一般社団法人国連ユニタール協会は、2010年より、「国連ユニタール広島青少年大使プログラム」を通...
Four months after arriving in Geneva, in January 2015, Mr. Poem Mudyawbikwa was called into his Ambassador’s office and asked if he would be willing to attend a training course on Negotiation Skills and Techniques from UNITAR.
“Initially,” he recalled, “I was skeptical of what I might learn at the workshop because at that time I had already been working as a negotiator in business, and in fact I had written articles about negotiating.” After some research into UNITAR’s Diplomatic Training…
Spanish has become a priority language as regards the e-learning courses that UNITAR is offering to officials and professionals from developing countries and economies in transition. This year, the Public Finance and Trade programme will again offer a series of online courses in partnership with leading universities and training institutes in Latin America and Spain. These courses are designed to enhance the professional skills of public and private sector participants, and to promote the sharing of knowledge and experiences through UNITAR’s Virtual Learning Environment.…
8 August 2011, Geneva, Switzerland - Researchers at CERN have begun today public testing of a new version of the popular volunteer computing project LHC@home. This version allows volunteers to participate for the first time in simulating high-energy collisions of protons in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), thus actively help physicists in the search for new fundamental particles. This is one example of a series of projects and events organized by the Citizen Cyberscience Centre, a partnership between CERN, UNITAR/UNOSAT and the University of Geneva, to promote volunteer…
18 July 2012 - UNOSAT and UrtheCast have teamed up to apply the world's first ever high definition, streaming video platform of planet Earth to support humanitarian emergencies, environmental monitoring and capacity development to the benefit of vulnerable communities worldwide.
The live video feed cameras will be mounted on the International Space Station later this year while UNOSAT is already working with partner UrtheCast, who fathered the idea, to ensure high definition video – below 1 m resolution – is acquired and utilised in crisis situations for the…
16 January 2013, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - The Arab countries part of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have specific requirements in the area of emergency management and disaster risk reduction, including geographic information and satellite analysis. This is what emerged from discussions held in Riyadh in conjunction with the UNISDR-GCC Training Workshop on reducing and managing disaster risk (13-16 January 2013).
The event marked the first substantial step by Arab states in the region towards an organized approach to disaster risk reduction and the implementation of the…
November 2011, Geneva, Switzerland. The workshop on “Multilateral Financial Negotiations: Key Challenges for Africa” (8 to 9 November 2011), which was directed by Dr. Yenkong Ngangjoh Hodu (Associate Professor at University of Manchester) and Dr. Carlo Cattani (Senior international consultant on Finance and Development) had 17 participants from 12 Sub-Saharan African countries. Dr. Ngangjoh Hodu and Dr. Cattani both made several presentations on specific issues and shared their insights and experiences with the participants in the debates and discussions at the end of…
UNITAR NYO Delivers Peacekeeping Workshop with Sweden Sponsorship
5 December 2016, New York, USA – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York Office, with generous sponsorship from the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations, held a briefing on the status of United Nations peacekeeping operations. The course was instructed by Dr. Roy S. Lee, former Assistant Secretary-General for legal affairs at the United Nations and a veteran of the United Nations legal system. He currently teaches at Yale University’s School of Environment and…
UNITAR Organizes Workshop on "Behavioural Insights towards the Implementation of SDG 13"
27 of June 2017, New York, USA - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research organized a course titled “Behavioural Insights towards the Implementation of Sustainable Develoment Goals (SDGs) 13 (Climate Action)”. The course focused on three main points; first - raising awareness of behavioural insights and it’s applications toward the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development SDG 13. Secondly, another section of the course focused on building the…