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16 November 2020, Dakar, Senegal – To join the global activities during the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, UNITAR and the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders (CIFAL) in Dakar, in partnership with the Municipality of Dakar, and with the support of Diageo inaugurated on 16 November 2020 the training course “High Visibility Enforcement Interventions: Law Enforcement to Reduce Road Traffic Crashes related to Drivers using Alcohol”.
Mr. Mouhamed Diop, Director of CIFAL Dakar, inaugurated the event that welcomed 50 law enforcement offic...
14 October 2011, New York, United States of America – On 14 October 2011, the UNITAR New York Office, jointly with the Permanent Mission of Switzerland, organized a half-day workshop on “United Nations Reform: Institutional Adaptation of UN Governing Bodies.” The workshop opened UNITAR’s four-part series on UN reform in New York that covers topics such as management reform, system-wide coherence and new approaches to mediation and preventive diplomacy.
Yvonne Lodico of UNITAR NYO introduced the four part series and briefly explained its objectives. H.E. Paul Seger,…
Exploring Geneva Through the Lens of the United Nations: First UNITAR-UOC Master Field Trip
25 – 27 July 2018, Geneva, Switzerland – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) was pleased to welcome a group of students to Geneva for a Field Trip as part of the Online Master in International Affairs and Diplomacy, held jointly with the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). This was the first ever field trip for the Master Programme, in which students were able to explore the functions of different agencies of the United Nations and deepen their…
Radicalization, violent extremism and terrorism sit at the forefront of today’s policy discussions and remain major challenges to peace faced in today’s world. Although the 2019 Global Terrorism Index has indicated a 15,2 % fall in the number of fatalities caused by acts of terrorism worldwide in 2018, the terrorist landscape and its impact have remained complex and widespread. In 2018, the overall impact of terrorism was still higher in 80 countries when compared to five years ago. Many armed conflicts are linked to violent extremist groups, causing displacement, economic ...
26 July 2021, Hiroshima, Japan – The world can potentially be destroyed in a nuclear cataclysm at any moment. It only needs a small misunderstanding or technical error – never mind war between nuclear-armed nations – to unleash weapons of mass destruction that would kill millions and likely render large tracts of the earth uninhabitable for any who survive.
Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo on 10 December 2017, spoke eloquently in defence of a ban on such weapons.
“Nine nations st...
Sayf Al Ashqar, UNITAR Entrepreneurship Training Programme alum, is the Secretary General of the Libraries (Director of the Central Library) at the University of Mosul.
In 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attacked and took control of Mosul which led to the destruction of Central Library.
In 2017, Sayf and his colleagues began the reconstruction and rebuilding of the Central Library.
The UNITAR entrepreneurship training programme helped him hone his communication and leadership skills.
, July 2022, Hiroshima, Japan ...
21 December 2023, Online/Dubai, UAE - From the 4th to the 10th December, UNITAR hosted three events at COP28 for UN CC Learn’s Climate Classrooms, entitled; Tackling Plastic Pollution; Sustainable Marine Transportation; Upskilling for Decarbonization, and two in-person events at COP28, first with CIFAL City of London on December 5th entitled ‘Sustainable Development and Higher Education’, and second with RES4City at the ‘United in Science 2023’ event on December 10th.
The first event "Tackling Plastic Pollution," on December 4th, 2023 provided an interactive session ...
18 November 2024, Bogota, Colombia – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in partnership with the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Section (INL) of the U.S. Department of State, the Financial Information and Analysis Unit (UIAF) of Colombia, and University of Antioquia, launched the Multidimensional Training Platform (Plataforma de Entrenamiento Multidimensional, PEM, for its acronym in Spanish) to strengthen Colombia’s fight against financial crime. The PEM was unveiled in the capital city of Colombia, bringing toge...
Jeju Special Self-Governing Province has been designated as the Island of World Peace by the government of Republic of Korea on 27 January 2005, and promotes Jeju as a place to discuss world peace through summit meetings and international conferences in efforts to make significant contribution to world peace and enhancement of stability on the Korean Peninsula.
With this recognition, the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between UNITAR, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, and the International Peace Foundation (IPF) took place on 30 March 2010, at Jeju…
UNITAR Hosts Dialogue on Advancing the SDGs in Collaboration with the Private Sector
26 September 2018, New York, United States – UNITAR with the support of the Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the UN in New York hosted the Dialogue “Advancing the SDGs - A partners perspective” during the U.N. General Assembly week.
The special meeting was inaugurated by H.E. Hugo Francisco Rivera, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for Economic Affairs and International Cooperation of the Dominican Republic and the discussion was facilitated by Dr. David Nabarro, former…