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3 August 2025, Osaka, Japan - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and Pasona Group Inc. signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on 3 August at the UN Pavilion at EXPO 2025 Osaka, Japan, reaffirming both parties’ commitment to accelerating joint efforts toward sustainable growth and inclusive prosperity worldwide. Building on the initial MOU signed in June 2023, the renewed agreement elaborates on the concrete areas and scope of collaboration in the form of developing and implementing initiatives such as knowledge-sharing, joint e...
Dr Nassrine Azimi is a founding director of the UNITAR Hiroshima Office
While Dr. Azimi was Chief of the UNITAR New York, she was approached by a Japanese academic with an idea to establish an office in Hiroshima. With the support of Hiroshima Prefecture, it was realized and she became the first director there.
Since then, UNITAR has been bringing learners from developing countries to the heart of the city, next to the Atomic Bomb Dome and the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.
Looking to the next 20 years, Dr. Azimi hopes that UNITAR will help rebuild that missing link...
The communities of the Cook Islands have had to be self-reliant when it comes to natural disasters.
“We’ve had a fortnight of heavy, heavy rain. Just last week, a coconut tree fell across the road on my driveway. So [the community], we got out there and cleaned it up,” says Lydia Sijp, member of the Tupapa/Maraeranga disaster management committee on Rarotonga, the country’s largest and most populous island, and 2016 UNITAR training alumna.
We call for help from the government. But if the government doesn’t turn up, we just get out there and do it ourselves.
The Co...
Diane Shayne Lipana, a diplomat of the Philippines, was a participant in UNITAR Hiroshima’s Training Programme on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.
The Philippines has had a pro-disarmament stance for decades and is a member of both the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). The TPNW will have its first meeting in June 2022.
The training programme helped Diane zero in on the key topics for negotiating for nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.
, June 2022, Hiroshima, Japan – The ...
26 March 2025, Geneva, Switzerland - On the 30th anniversary of the landmark Beijing Declaration, UNITAR convened a virtual side event, "Bridging Gender Gaps and Advancing Equity in Water Governance." In conjunction with World Water Day for the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation, the event emphasised the critical importance of glaciers to freshwater resources. The gathering brought together experts and practitioners to address the inextricable link between gender equity and sustainable water management, reinforcing that women's inclusion is not simply about fairne...
Massive Open Online Course
This self-paced course has been developed by UNITAR and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). A number of countries have attempted to better link their budgeting with the SDGs and national planning overall, however, the progress is uneven. As underscored in the recent UNDP guidance, any country regardless of its budgeting system can take a number of steps that can help align the allocation of public resources with the national SDG priorities. This set of measures has however to be adapted to the specific situation of the country....
20 August 2021, Hiroshima, Japan – On Saturday, 18 September 2021, UNITAR, in collaboration with ITS Education Asia and KIDsforSDGs, will host a free public webinar to celebrate the launch of the UNITAR Youth Ambassador Asia Programme on 25 September 2021., The public is invited to join.
Please register at https://unitar-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Th6RW6FgTD-K4S6vYLXkiA.
The seminar will comprise of panel discussions:
Panel 1: Accelerating Youth Changemaking through the United Nations SDGs
Panel 2: Scaling Student Agency: Asia’s Best-In-Class Case Studies
P...
On 29 June 2025, twenty-four (24) youth in high schools from Hiroshima prefecture gathered at the UNITAR Hiroshima Office for the launch of the 2025 “UNITAR Hiroshima Youth Ambassador Programme: Leaders for a New Era”.Participants took part in lectures covering a broad range of topics, including the current global landscape surrounding peace, human rights, and international law, and the status of nuclear disarmament and global efforts toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.This training programme, running from 29 June to 24 August 2025, aims to strengthen youth leadership ...
UNITAR Division for Prosperity launched its new training programme “Bolstering livelihoods: Digital reskilling for Ukrainian women evacuees in Poland” on 16 October 2023 at an event in Warsaw.
Guests included government officials, programme partners, academic institutions, NGOs and a participant of the new training.
The training programme will run from October 2023 to March 2024. Close to 1000 Ukrainian women evacuees in Poland have applied.
This is the UNITAR Division for Prosperity’s first training programme for Ukrainian evacuees.
The programme is m...
26 November 2021, Geneva, Switzerland – On Thursday 25th November, the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT), hosted an online event to celebrate 20 years of operations. The great discussions and testimonies from partners only scratched the surface of the tremendous work achieved so far, and what is to come.
“I am pleased to congratulate UNOSAT – the United Nations Satellite Centre – on 20 years of outstanding support to the United Nations System and its Member States. […] Satellite imagery and analysis is an essential resource for the United Nations and the broad...