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Human rights are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Paragraph 67 of Agenda 2030 calls on “all businesses to apply their creativity and innovation to solving sustainable development challenges” and for States to “foster a dynamic and well-functioning business sector, while protecting labour rights and environmental and health standards in accordance with relevant international standards and agreements and other ongoing initiatives in this regard, such as the UN Guiding Principles [UNGP] on Business and Human Rights.”
Endorsed by the UN Human Ri...
Following a five year engagement by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) to conduct applied research and geospatial analysis on piracy activities, this report constitutes the first global geospatial analysis on the issue. What started with identifying captured ships delivering humanitarian assistance and other goods using satellite imagery later expanded to regional geospatial analyses for the western Indian Ocean. The current report assesses piracy at the global level. This research includes detailed geo-spatial analyses, while relating findings ...
Interactive conference to mark the UNITAR Division for Peace Advisory Board side event.
March 29th, 2023 - 3:00 pm - 05:30 pm CET
After more than ten years of conflict and countering terrorism, the situation in the Sahel region remains unstable, putting thousands of civilians at risk, causing massive suffering, and forcing millions of people to flee and leave their homes. In these 5000 kilometres-long belt lands stretching from Africa’s Atlantic coast to the Red Sea, the humanitarian situation is extremely concerning, and security challenges reach unprecedente...
Funded by UNITAR’s Strategic Framework Fund (SFF), the “Overcoming Global Challenges through International Law” project aims to provide participants with new insights on highly topical legal issues, ranging from the rule of law, business and human rights, to climate change induced migration. In addition to raising participants’ awareness on such legal topics, each e-workshop also underlines the connection between the legal challenges and issues such as women empowerment and gender equality.
The first set of e-workshops were implemented in November 2020 and focused on the ...
There is a direct link between gender equality, women empowerment and climate change. Women are among the groups that are most vulnerable to the impacts of the increasing levels of natural resource depletion and environment degradation. At the same time, their voices and concerns are often excluded from the processes of policy-planning and decision-making that seek to tackle climate change, reduce inequality and curb the environmental crisis that we currently face. In spite of that, it is widely accepted that women can and should play a central role in the response to clima...
3 December 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - Given the current global context, UNITAR specifically designed a series of training programmes to strengthen multilateralism. These aim to foster the spirit of international cooperation, build up values such as solidarity and inclusiveness, and sensitise participants to the fact that global challenges such as climate change or the COVID-19 pandemic can only be addressed together.
United Nations Immersion Programme
UNITAR is delighted to offer the United Nations Winter Immersion Programme, a 5-day field visit to Geneva ...
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Arctic Council
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Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS)
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
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21 September 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - COVID-19 has highlighted severe fragilities and inequalities within and among nations. While the impact varies per country or region, LDCs is Sub- Saharan Africa face greater risks of negative impacts of the pandemic due to lack of economic resilience and diversification.
Although the pandemic is considered a public health crisis, it is not the only, and may not even be the gravest challenge the pandemic poses. Devastating socio-economic impacts of the virus has disproportionately affected fragile countries that are already battling...
UNITAR’s Chemicals and Waste Management Programme in partnership with OECD, and funded by the Government of Switzerland, organised a series of regional workshops in 2018. These workshops were aimed towards professionals working nationally or at the regional level in the nano field or broader chemicals management. Perspectives and experiences from governments, regional experts, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations were included. Thanks to the secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions for the opportunity to host this worksho...
A training programme for 26 senior representatives of the Ministry of Oil of the Republic of Iraq was held between 16 and 29 March 2013. Participants comprised technicians specialized in engineering, geology, and chemistry, who are working in different oil and refinery companies of the Iraqi Ministry of Oil. Focusing on Leadership and Project Planning, the programme was undertaken in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and included 9 days in Hiroshima, followed by 3 days in Tokyo.
The Hiroshima-based elements of the programme included a se...