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12 June 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - Each year an increasing number of practitioners, international staff, and national experts take to studying International Humanitarian Law to have a better understanding of the rules and international conventions applying to armed conflict and internal violence.
UNOSAT has accumulated substantial experience in satellite analysis in conflict situations and other crises having humanitarian and human security dimensions. A UNOSAT training module on the use of satellite technology for the verification of humanitarian law is part of the…
14 June 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - In the framework of their collaboration aiming to jointly develop a series of learning programmes in the field of knowledge management, UNITAR and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have developed the course Innovative Collaboration for Development (ICfD), an e-learning course on Web 2.0 tools for development.
The overall goal of the course is to empower development professionals to recognize the potential of social media and to make innovative use of these tools to improve the efficiency, effectiveness…