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More than 120 delegates representing European institutional stakeholders and industry across the civilian, security and defence domain attended the workshop on ‘Space for Security and Defence’, jointly organised by the European Defence Agency, the European Commission and the European Space Agency in Brussels on 16 September. The Manager of UNOSAT was invited to speak on the UN experience in applying satellite solutions in the context of UN decision making and field support.
Given that effective civil security and defence capabilities are linked to the ability of decision…
UNOSAT and UNICRI decided to formalise their collaboration in a recent exchange of letters.
Like UNITAR, UNICRI (Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute)is one of the 5 global Research and Training Institutes of the United Nations which report to the UN Secretary General. UNICRI carries out applied research, training, technical cooperation and documentation / information activities in the areas of Emerging Crimes and Anti-Human Trafficking; Security Governance and Counter Terrorism; Justice Reform, and Post-Graduate Training.
As a broker of…
At the occasion of the session of the Board of Trustees of UNITAR, held on the 30th January 2009 in Paris, Carlos Lopes - Executive Director of UNITAR- and Henri Proglio- Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of VEOLIA Environnement - have renewed the partnership that unites the Local Development Programme and VEOLIA Environnement. This innovative cooperation has been initiated in 2002 after the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg and it has been successfully and continuously renewed.
The contract is centered on two principal axes:
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Each year, UNITAR educates the diplomatic community on the structure, use and retrieval of UN documentation. What is documentation and why is it so important? A quick look at the latest version of the Oxford dictionary offers the following definition for the word document: “Piece of written, printed or electronic matter that provides record or evidence of events”. It is not surprising, therefore, that the documentation of the United Nations has been over the years an essential basis for the work of the Organization, a reflection of the United Nations…
UNITAR was honoured recently to take part in the International Conference on Peace from Disasters: Indigenous initiatives across communities, countries and continents. The conference was held in Hiroshima, Japan from 18 to 19 September and was hosted by the Hiroshima University Partnership Project for Peacebuilding and Capacity Development and the Tokyo University Global COE Program.
Over the course of the conference various specialists from around the globe discussed the policy and process foci required for the effective reconstruction of communities affected by…
07–11 November 2011, PR China – UNITAR/ILO, in collaboration with the Orange House Partnership (OHP) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China (MIIT) conducted two training sessions on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) in Beijing. The first training session brought together 186 regulators and officials of Government Ministries and Agencies, local authorities, and provincial state/governments involved in the GHS. The second session was dedicated to the industry sector and involved the participation of…
December 2011, Hiroshima, Japan. Green Legacy Hiroshima is an initiative started in 2011 by UNITAR and ANT-Hiroshima, to spread worldwide the seeds - and the peace message - of trees that survived the atomic bombing. Recently, Nassrine Azimi, one of the co-founders of "Green Legacy Hiroshima" and former director of the UNITAR Hiroshima office was interviewed about her hopes and vision for this global campaign by the Chugoku Shimbun (website in Japanese), and featured in the Hiroshima Peace Media Center.
The feature article "Green Legacy Hiroshima:…
CIFAL Atlanta Contributing to Empower Youth from Southeast Asia
2 February -11 March 2017, Atlanta, USA - CIFAL Atlanta, in partnership with Kennesaw State University (KSU), hosted 22 young leaders from Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam who participated in the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI).
The YSEALI is a U.S. State Department programme that aims to build the leadership capabilities of youth in Southeast Asia and promote cross-border cooperation to solve regional and global challenges. In…
Joining Up for Climate Finance Skills – Webinar Fosters Dialogue Among Training Institutions on Upscaling Capacity Building
18 May 2017, Geneva, Switzerland – Within the framework of the regional UNDP-initiative Strengthening the Governance of Climate Change Finance to Benefit the Poor and Vulnerable in Asia and the Pacific, UNITAR held a webinar with training institutions active in climate finance training. The event brought together 10 representatives from Africa, Asia and Europe to share experience on opportunities and challenges in delivering capacity building in this…
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Introduction to Water Diplomacy (6 November to 3 December 2017)
More than ever before, the pressure on our freshwater resources is increasing globally and with it the legitimate concern that tensions will rise between states which have no choice but to secure their aqueous requirements for their own development and growth. Beyond its apparent potential for conflict, water bears a strong cooperation potential which has yet to be understood and empowered. Water is and will remain at the heart of international peace and…