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UNOSAT has striven for years to bring satellite applications to the attention of policy makers and senior leaders. These efforts were rewarded on 20 September when UNOSAT Manager Francesco Pisano addressed the UN High Level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on the MDGs during a side event organised by UNITAR, OECD and the Government of Egypt. UNOSAT offered to the audience a new perspective concerning achieving MDGs through partnerships that work because they are focused on technology and result. Pisano said “Knowledge and Action are two important stations on the way…
The work done by UNOSAT at the height of the crisis in Kyrgyzstan has been used widely in human rights verifications. This confirms one of the early methodological innovations brought about by the UNOSAT team: prolonging the useful life of satellite derived information beyond the emergency phase.
In the case of Kyrgyzstan , Human Rights Watch has been benefitting from the high resolution imagery used by UNOSAT over cities affected by urban violence to discuss directly with survivors the details of events occurred during the violence outbreak. This underscores the power of…
11 March 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - UNOSAT will soon enter the third year of monitoring of the Syria crisis in support of the international humanitarian community and the High-Commissioner for Refugees in particular. UNOSAT first situation maps about the unfolding of the Syrian crisis date back mid-2011. Today, the number of Syrians fleeing increasingly violent conflict has reportedly surpassed the staggering number of one million.
UNHCR made known last week that resources for helping this increasing population of displaced people, 50% of whom are believed to be children…
17 December 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - As the situation worsens in the Central African Republic, humanitarian organizations are facing a new wave of 214,000 internally displaced persons that will bring the total IDP population to nearly 700,000 according to UN estimates dating this. In addition, over 230,000 refugees who have fled to neighbouring countries to avoid the violence.
The situation, provoked by a conflict that has peaked since the coup in March 2013, is at the centre of the attention of the UN Security Council and of several UN agencies that are mobilising…
22 May, 2012. Geneva, Switzerland - Our increasingly globalized and interconnected world requires Executives and Senior Managers to respond to the demands of stakeholders and to fully grasp and integrate the critical issues raised by the emergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) into sustainability plans.
The diamond and jewelry industry is currently facing accountability challenges that will present new opportunities if properly addressed.
In the context, UNITAR, through its affiliated International Training Center on Corporate Opportunities (Antwerp-ITCCO), in…
20 September 2012 - Building on a decade of success in making satellite data available to users for disaster response, the International Charter Space and Major Disasters is now opening its doors even wider. To do this, the Charter has adopted the principle of Universal Access: any national disaster management authority will be able to submit requests to the Charter for emergency disaster response. Proper procedures will have to be followed, but the affected country will not have to be a Charter member.
The Charter has arrangements with UNOSAT and with the UN…
December 2012, Nayphidow, Myanmar – Myanmar has become the most recent Asian country to receive UNOSAT advanced training on the use of geospatial information technology for disaster risk reduction as part of the UNOSAT sub-regional capacity development initiative launched in 2011.
The one week course was delivered by UNOSAT experts to 17 selected national experts. The activity was hosted at the Relief and Resettlement Department (RRD) and was attended by experts from the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of…
This joint South Centre/UNITAR e-Learning course stands out as it focuses on the main challenges facing IP policymakers in developing countries in designing and implementing suitable IP frameworks and policies. International debates on intellectual property (IP) are becoming increasingly focused on the need to integrate a “development dimension” into IP policy making. An ongoing process in this direction is the implementation of the “WIPO Development Agenda”. As of 2007, it directs WIPO to adopt a broader approach to promoting creativity and innovation, and the link…
10 November 2011, New York, United States of America. On 4 November 2011, the New York Office of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in cooperation with the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations held the second workshop of the series on United Nations Reform. This workshop focused on: “System-wide Coherence in United Nations Development Activities,” which aimed at familiarizing delegates and UN staff on system-wide coherence architecture, current initiatives to improve coherence mechanisms and main challenges for coherence and…
UNECE joins the UN CC:Learn Partnership!
“By transforming global goals into practical norms, standards and conventions, UNECE is a driving force in combating climate change in the pan-European region and beyond.”
7 December 2016, Geneva, Switzezrland - Climate change is a global phenomenon, and all regions of the world are contributing to it and are likely to be affected by it. It is for this reason that the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has been working for several year on the issue.
Aware that education is a key factor to curb down…