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20 April 2022, New York, USA. - The United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director of UNITAR Mr. Nikhil Seth has made an official visit to New York from 18 to 25 April 2022 to lead important meetings at the United Nations Headquarters and meet with the Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, Chef de Cabinet of the Secretary-General Courtenay Rattray, President of the General Assembly Mr. Abdulla Shahid, President of ECOSOC Ambassador Collen Kelapile, Under Secretary-Generals Vladimir Voronkov, Rosemary DiCarlo, and Alexandre Zouev, as well as other principa...
8 July 2025, Geneva, Switzerland – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is pleased to announce the launch of its Climate Change Diplomacy: Advanced Negotiation Skills and Strategies online course. Applications are now open for this fully online programme, which will run from 15 September to 12 October 2025, with a registration deadline of 15 September. Delivered in English for a fee of 600 USD, the course offers flexible access for participants worldwide who wish to strengthen their understanding of international climate change negotiations and bu...
October 2011, Geneva, Switzerland. The United Nations Development Programme – Regional Bureau for Africa (UNDP RBA) and UNITAR’s Public Finance and Trade Programme successfully conducted the skills-building workshop on “Négociations financières multilatérales: les défis pour l’Afrique” (Geneva, 20 to 21 October 2011). Fifteen (15) negotiators and officials from French-speaking Sub-Saharan African countries participated in this two-day event. The main workshop goal was to enable participants to effectively prepare and participate in multilateral financial negotiations such…
2 July 2025, Geneva, Switzerland - The CIFAL Global Network, coordinated by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), has published its 2025 Training Catalogue, outlining a comprehensive range of learning activities aimed at strengthening local capacities and advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).As the world reaches the midpoint of the Decade of Action to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, this year’s catalogue underscores the continued importance of knowledge, training, and inclusive capacity-building in accelerating s...
5 to 9 September 2011, Cha-Am, Thailand. In the lead-up to the 17th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 17), the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand organised a five-day workshop on multilateral conference diplomacy, green diplomacy and their respective interlinkages. The workshop, which was carried out by UNITAR’s Multilateral Diplomacy Programme, was split into two parts, one focusing on negotiation and its relation to conference diplomacy and one on the specific…
28 January 2011, Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2003) and a second term member of the Institute’s Board of Trustees gave a special lecture on human rights to the UNITAR staff at the Palais des Nations. The lecture was in connection with her participation in the 50th session of the Board of Trustees (BOT) which takes place on the 31 January and 1 February 2011.
The UNITAR staff members had a unique and welcomed opportunity to listen to and interact with a world-recognized leader on human rights. Speaking in her…
1 June 2011, New York, USA. The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) implemented a course on the Economic and Social Council for members of the Council at United Nations Headquarters in New York. This course was intended to help delegates to the Council become more familiar with the main issues before the Council. The participants were also provided information on the history of the Economic and Social Council and the Relationship of the Council with the other principal organs of the United Nations.
To this end, the course was aimed to help…
The Institute of Diplomatic Studies of Saudi Arabia requested that UNITAR develop a seminar on International Crisis Management for officers from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia.
In the seminar, which started last week in Geneva, Switzerland, UNITAR is partnering with staff from International Telecommunication Union (ITU), International Labour Organization (ILO), UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs(OCHA), UN Development Programme (UNDP), UNITAR Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), World…
28-30 September 2011, Vienna, Austria. One of the three international UN headquarters, Vienna provides an exciting, yet sometimes confusing working environment for diplomats. With the view to provide practitioners with clarity on key issues and to ensure a good start to newcomers to the multilateral work setting, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) organised two briefings on the mandate and governance of Vienna-based UN agencies and international organisations. The first briefing was organised jointly with the United Nations Commission on…
November 2011, Beninc City, Nigeria – In fulfillment of the signed workplan with Edo State Government, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) organized a 5-day capacity building workshop from 24th–28th of October 2011 at the Baden Baden Exquisite Motel in Benin City to encapsulate her obligation of building the capacity of stakeholders for sustainable development in the State. This is a milestone achievement because UNITAR once again fulfilled its entire obligation to the signed contract with the state.
The 5-day workshop was organized in…