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Discover UNITAR's 5 engaging International Law Courses, available in both self-paced and interactive webinar formats. These courses empower you with essential knowledge to grasp the significance of international law, the pivotal role of international organizations, and critical analysis skills, enabling you to interpret contemporary cases and apply rules in areas like the Law of Treaties and International Environmental Law.Our Self-Paced Track courses offer flexibility in learning through interactive lessons and multimedia materials.Our Webinar Track courses&...
18 October 2024, Geneva, Switzerland. The world is facing radical economic transformations driven, on the one hand, by opportunities offered by green and digital technologies and, on the other, by significant demographic changes, decreasing natural resource availabilities, increasing pressures from societies turning towards more responsible consumption patterns, and regulations to promote ESG compliance or encourage SDG reporting, and to pro-actively manage digital transformations. As such, one of the key needs becomes the upskilling and reskilling of government agencies, a...
25 - 27 February, New York, USA - UNITAR coordinated the Core Diplomatic Training for the Permanent Mission of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana to the United Nations which began Tuesday 25 February 2020 and concluded Thursday 27 February 2020. The Guyana mission is preparing for the upcoming chairmanship and coordinating the activities of the G77+ China. To begin, the participants and facilitators were welcomed by H.E. Mr. Neil Pierre, Chief of the Strategic Engagement and Policy Integration Branch in the Financing for Sustainable Development Office...
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30 October - 1 November 2017, Cartagena, Colombia – UNITAR teamed up with the Governments of Colombia and Spain, ECLAC, UNDP and UNDESA to hold a Latin American learning conference on the holistic implementation of the 2030 Agenda in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from 30 October to 1 November 2017. The Conference for more than 70 participants featured strategic thinking sessions with the participation of several Ministers of Planning from the region and international and regional experts from the UN family, and a session with the private sector representativ...
23 - 24 January 2019, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China – UNITAR, in collaboration with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP), and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) successfully held the Learning Conference “Implementing the 2030 Agenda in the Asia-Pacific Region” in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, on the 23rd and 24th of January 2019. The conference was attended by more than 95 participants, including government officials leading the...
27 April 2023, Hangzhou, China - UNITAR’s 2021 and 2023 survey among the National Statistical Offices and Systems (NSOs and NSSs) and international organizations, conducted as part of the EC-Funded Crowd4SDG project, showed that 31% of respondents were aware of citizen science data (CSD) projects run by their NSOs in 2023 compared to only 17% in 2021. The awareness of citizen science (CSD) or citizen-generated data (CGD) is growing, and so are the questions on how such data could be collected and used for the monitoring of progress on sustainable development. To shed s...
September 2021 - The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the lives of people, and countries’ economies in unprecedented ways. The governments’ efforts to achieve the global 2030 Agenda have halted or even rolled back as a result of the global health crisis. A number of short-term measures had to be taken to respond to this health emergency and then address the recovery through significant money injections. This short-term response has, however, at times failed to account for mid-term and long-term effects and objectives. The need for a sustainable recovery as part of a more inte...
Solomon Olusegun, Finalist of GEAR Cycle II Climate change and Gender equality (2021) Ibadan, Nigeria Solomon is pursuing a Bachelor’s in Psychology at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and nurturing his tech savviness by exploring different projects outside his field of studies. He has always been interested in learning more about the interaction between humans and the environment, including how humans experience climate change. This made him keen to join the Donate Water team during the GEAR Cycle II of the Crowd4SDG project that focused on Gender Equalit...
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...