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UNITAR launches Digital Finance Initiative with virtual conference to promote Sustainable Prosperity
UNITAR Executive Director Nikhil Seth emphasizes the urgent need to strengthen efforts to support the “new digital normal” to reduce inequalities in financial inclusion.
, 10 May 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR has launched a new set of projects that aim to support efforts to expand Financial Inclusion beginning with its first annual virtual conference on Digital Finance. The conference was held on April 21st, World Creativity and Innovation Day, and included three panel discussions, each centered on specific topics that address the role of developing FinTech innovation...
30 September, Geneva, Switzerland - In today's complex financial crime landscape, equipping compliance officers with the necessary tools and knowledge to combat money laundering and terrorism financing is more crucial than ever. In partnership with the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Section of the US Embassy in Bogota, the Financial Information and Analysis Unit of Colombia, and the University of Antioquia, we are co-creating a groundbreaking e-learning programme designed to empower 27,000 compliance officers in Colombia., The success of any Anti-Money ...
Twenty-two 2021 UNITAR Hiroshima Youth Ambassadors are exploring ideas to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) in a post-COVID-19 world.
In the 3-month programme, Hiroshima high school students examine today’s pressing issues so they can become future global leaders.
The 2021 round started in July and will include five workshops and group work.
The Youth Ambassadors will make their final presentations on 24 October 2021 in a public webinar (in Japanese only).
Leading companies NEC and H&M joined to give the Youth Ambassadors a broader perspective of th...
23 January 2020, New York, U.S.A – The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR) New York Office kicked of this year of trainings, organizing jointly with the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) a one-day orientation course for the members of the Council. This activity is supported with funding allocated from the Swedish International Development Agency’s (SIDA) contribution to the UNITAR Strategic Framework Fund and hosted in the United Nations Headquarters in Conference Room 8.
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16 September 2022, Hiroshima, Japan - Join UNITAR in defending human rights in the age of artificial intelligence with a unique translation project led by youth.
Youth are invited to translate or review in their native language an online training on how artificial intelligence, or AI, affects human rights in a project co-organized by SALTO Participation & Information Resource Centre (SALTO PI), UNITAR and UNESCO. Applicants have until 26 September to apply.
For the European Year of Youth 2022, SALTO PI, UNITAR and UNESCO are calling for young translators and revi...
14 November 2016, Tokyo, Japan - The UNITAR Hiroshima Office has completed the UNITAR Hiroshima Women's Leadership in Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction Training Programme for World Tsunami Awareness Day 2016. Conducted in collaboration with the Government of Japan and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNIDSR), the workshop was successfully held between 30 October to 7 November 2016 in Tokyo, Sendai and Wakayama. Twenty-six senior female participants, selected from fourteen Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) including: ...
December 2021 - Regardless of size, innovative and social businesses can create positive waves which reach beyond their communities to achieve national, or international status. It is this type of grassroots action which is necessary if the world is to address the challenges brought about by climate change., In Iraq, people use copious amounts of plastic. "We have oil, so plastic is very cheap here," says Mustafa Musa Jaber, a participant in the Iraqi youth entrepreneurship training programme run by the UNITAR Division for Prosperity. Awareness about plastic waste is only j...
10 November 2022, Geneva, Switzerland – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) will jointly conduct a roundtable discussion on the topic “The Global Rules that Advance Local Solutions” on 24 November 2022, at Palais des Nations in Geneva.
The roundtable discussion will feature distinguished women Diplomats and Leaders responsible for fostering Sustainable Development.
These women leaders will gather to discuss what could be done urgently to adopt the framework and conditions that ...
29 August 2019 Yokohama, Japan - TICAD7 official side-event panel discussion, "Building Bridges for Peace in South Sudan", has successfully concluded in Yokohoma, Japan. H.E. James Wani Igga, Vice President of South Sudan joined the panel along with Hon. Onyoti Adigo Nyikwec, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security of South Sudan. Mr. Nihkil Seth, Executive Director of UNITAR, moderated the discussion. Besides, the panel included Mr. Takeshi Akamatsu, Deputy Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Mr. Samuel Rizk, Head of Conflict Prevention, Peacebuildi...