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ECOSOC Adopts Resolution on UNITAR
21 April 2017, New York, USA - The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations met today in New York for its Coordination and Management Meeting and considered agenda item 20 (United Nations research and training institutions).
The Council heard a presentation by the Executive Director of UNITAR Mr. Nikhil Seth (via video-link from UNITAR Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland) introducing the Report of the Secretary General on UNITAR to the Council (E/2017/48). Mr. Seth outlined the core activities of the Institute and its…
NORCAP and UNOSAT Partner for Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Services and Strategic Management
6 June 2017, Geneva, Switzerland - UNOSAT benefits from working with several organizations seconding expert personnel. Such collaborations include partners as varied as the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit, the Algerian Space Agency, and the Norwegian Refugee Council. Through the deployment of expertise meeting competency needs, these partnerships are an invaluable source of improvement for UNOSAT. This is particularly the case with regard to our collaboration with NORCAP…
UNITAR Participates in the Second High Level Seminar on Peace and Security in Africa
9 - 11 December 2014, Oran, Algeria – the Government of Algeria, in collaboration with the Commission of the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), convened the Second High Level Seminar on Peace and Security in Africa: Assisting Incoming African Members on the UN Security Council in Preparing to Address Peace and Security Issues on the Continent. The Second High-Level Seminar was held in continuation of the inaugural High-Level…
UNITAR-IEFPA Programa Internacional de Formación sobre la Tributación
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25 de marzo de 2015, Ginebra, Suiza. El Instituto de las Naciones Unidas para la Formación y la Investigación (UNITAR) se complace en anunciar que la inscripción para el "Programa Internacional de Formación sobre la Tributación" está abierta. Este programa será, implementado conjuntamente por UNITAR y el Instituto de Estudios de las Finanzas Públicas de Argentina (IEFPA), con el apoyo técnico del Centro Interamericano de Administraciones Tributarias (…
Live Web-map to monitor Climate and Associated Hazards in the Greater Horn of Africa
Nairobi, 27 January 2016 – With the aim to further improve accessibility to information on climate and hazard data, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Climate Prediction & Applications Centre (ICPAC) has published a live web-map to monitor climate and associated hazards in the Greater Horn of Africa region. With technical support from UNITAR’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), IGAD-ICPAC’s GIS experts developed this comprehensive map…
UNITAR Co-hosts 3rd Annual Dialogue in Commemoration of World Interfaith Harmony Week
9 February 2018, Geneva, Switzerland - A little-known General Assembly resolution comes back around once a year, in the first week of February, to remind the international community about the unmistakable power of religion to transform the world. In October 2010, UN General Assembly Resolution 65/5 established World Interfaith Harmony Week, in which the UN officially charges “all States to support, on a voluntary basis, the spread of the message of interfaith harmony and goodwill in the…
OpEd on the occasion of International Migrants Day.
While not focused on migration, the commitments of Copenhagen may have a decisive impact on where people will be able to live in the future – and homes they will have to leave behind.
Estimates of the number of people that will be forced to move because of climate change vary widely, from several millions to over a billion. A large share of those movements will be internal rather than international. Crossing borders usually requires networks and resources. Those hardest hit by the effects of climate change are…
UN CC:Learn Ambassador Mr. Ramirez Tejada Promotes Regional Integration on Climate Change Education in Central America
9 March 2015, Antigua, Guatemala. Omar Ramirez has a way with words, and he has a passion for climate change education. In his home country of the Dominican Republic, he has been helping to transform the education sector by building political alliances and by working on curriculum reform with all national agencies. But, it is the whole Central American region that is becoming increasingly vulnerable to climate change, not only the…
Putting into practice Resolution 2250 through learning and capacity building
Launch event for UNITAR’s free e-learning course on Youth and Peacebuilding and AC4’s YPS Leadership Certificate
Venue: United Nations Headquarters in New York, Room E
Date and time: Thursday, 26 April 2018, 15.00 – 16.30
Registration: https://www.unitar.org/event/full-catalog/putting-practice-resolution-2250-through-learning-and-capacity-building
Moderator:
Ms. Margaret Williams, Senior Peace and Security Officer at the World Federation of UN Associations (WFUNA).
Participants…
UNOSAT is increasingly active in both crowdsourcing and geo-tagging. To expand its experience in the latter, UNOSAT is working in partnership with the Citizen Cyberscience Centre to test an experimental geo-tagging system called Gloe, developed by HP Labs, a sponsor of the CCC project. The intention is to verify the usability of Gloe in support of development work and humanitarian aid in the field. UNOSAT and the CCC partners are hoping to determine which applications are more suitable to collaborative mapping and crowdsourcing for thematic mapping, especially in Africa.…