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22 August 2022, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) continue to expand its collaboration by launching its first online course on Trade, Food Security and Nutrition for officials from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This course will be fully delivered in Spanish and based on the flagship course developed by FAO which has been benefitted by hundreds of officials globally.
This course is designed to assist representatives from government and related authorities, who are directly involved in the formul...
12 December 2023, New York, USA – An evening of musical grandeur unfolded in the New York City landmark, Carnegie Hall, on December 11, 2023, as the United Nations Institute for Training and Research - New York Office (UNITAR-NYO), the President's Office of the 78th United Nations General Assembly, and Carnegie Hall partnered for an extraordinary concert. Titled "In Celebration of the Work of the 78th United Nations General Assembly and PGA H.E. Mr. Dennis Francis: A Concert For Peace, Prosperity, Progress, and Sustainability - An Annual UN Family Reunion". Under the suppor...
16 November 2020, New York, USA (Virtual) – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research hosted a two-day virtual webinar together with its event partner, a prominent international non-profit alliance in the field of culture, the Global Foundation for the Performing Arts (GFPA). The public webinar consisted of two half-day sessions, lasted from 9:30 am (EST) – 11:30 am (EST) on 16 and 17 November 2020., To accommodate audiences from multi-cultural backgrounds and present the panelists’ messages accurately to the audiences, UNITAR delivered a bilingual w...
March 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - Franklin University Switzerland (FUS) is a worldwide leader in innovative graduate education. Its mission is to offer interdisciplinary, experiential programs that prepare its graduates to be collaborative leaders in an ever-changing global landscape. It is the only university in the world that is accredited in both the US and Switzerland, and it offers programs that combine American flexibility and hands-on experiences with Swiss rigour. The Master of Science in International Management (MSIM) with Emphasis on Responsible Management and Cl...
September 2020 - As formally recognized by the groundbreaking UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325), sustainable peace is more likely to be achieved when women and girls are empowered to meaningfully take part in peace process at all levels and in all capacities. Yet, despite several global commitments to increase the representation and participation of women in mediation and peacebuilding processes, women and girls' contribution to peace is often rendered invisible due to limited and inadequate support for their work.
Aware of such challenges and with the gener...
In a world where more data are generated in one year than over decades before, its value to informing important policies and decisions aimed at the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is ever more important. The surge in data presents both significant opportunities for generating much needed evidence, as well as new challenges as the spread of fake news increasingly threatens the very foundations of our societies. Against this backdrop, UNITAR’s Strategic Implementation of the 2030 Agenda Unit (SI Agenda 2030) has teamed up with UN Statistics Division...
On 9 February 2025, UNITAR, in collaboration with the Japan Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, hosted a public event in Tokyo as part of the two-day International Civil Society Forum to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.Three UNITAR training advisors were among the panelists, who shared their insights on UN actions for nuclear disarmament and global trends in the nuclear disarmament debate.UNITAR also collaborated with Tabimachi Gate Hiroshima Co., Ltd. and Fujita Corporation to introduce a Virtual Reality (VR) experience conveying the realities of the atomic bombing during th...
3 June 2025, Atlanta, Georgia, USA – Senior airport officials and civil aviation authorities from 10 countries including Czech Republic, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Jamaica, Liberia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the US Virgin Islands took part in the “Future-Proofing Airport Development: Building Resilience Through Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management” workshop held in Atlanta on 28-29 May 2025. The intensive two-day workshop examined critical strategies for airport crisis response and operational continuity. In p...
Here’s what the UNITAR Division for Prosperity has been working on, from late June to August 2025. 日本語はこちらから , UNITAR Executive Director Michelle Gyles-McDonnough Visits Japan From 3 to 8 August 2025, Michelle Gyles-McDonnough, UN Assistant Secretary-General and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Executive Director, visited Japan for the first time since taking office in February. She spoke in UN Pavilion events at Expo 2025 Osaka, attended the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony and moderated a youth dialogue with local p...
As part of their efforts to mainstream knowledge about the obstructive consequences of corruption practices in sustainable development, UNITAR and the Rule of Law and Anticorruption Centre (ROLACC) organized the e-learning course “Anticorruption and Sustainable Development”. The course highlighted the causes, consequences and challenges posed by corruption in sustainable development and emphasized the benefits of prevention for the enhancement of the rule of law and the enjoyment of human rights. The course also provided guidance on the formulation of strategies on anti-cor...