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13 May 2025, Geneva, Switzerland — On 7 May 2025, The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the United Nations in Geneva and the International Law Association (GCC Branch), hosted a High-Level Dialogue on Justice and Capacity-Building in International Law this week at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.The event brought together diplomats, legal scholars, and practitioners from around the world to examine how Developing Countries, Least Developed Countries (LDCs), and Small I...
16 June 2025, Geneva, Switzerland – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and Best Diplomats have established a strategic partnership aimed at promoting sustainable development, advancing diplomatic practices, and providing high-quality educational experiences for young professionals around the world.The collaboration is grounded in shared goals and complementary strengths, focusing on empowering emerging leaders through meaningful and practical learning opportunities in international affairs, diplomacy, and global governance.Through this partnersh...
Register for the Webinar: Peace Education - Challenges and Opportunities, Dr. Jon-Hans Coetzer and Ms. Katarzyna A. Przybyła jointly supervise Strategic Peace & Conflict Studies (SPACS) programme. SPACS is a master’s degree programme organized by Collegium Civitas and UNITAR, based on experience and know-how of both institutions. S...
Financing urban water infrastructure is not easy: typically investments involve a high capital outlay and long pay-back periods, as well as greater risks and lower rates of return than other forms of infrastructure.
From July 22-23 2010, CIFAL Atlanta in partnership with the City of Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management hosted the Fifth “International Water Forum: Financing Water Systems and Governance”, bringing together representatives from Brazil, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Uruguay, Colombia and major cities from United States.
The International Water Forum…
15 November,2013,Hiroshima, Japan - The UNITAR Hiroshima Office was proud to host Professor U. Joy Ogwu, Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the United Nations, on Thursday 14 November. Professor Ogwu met with the 2013 UNITAR Youth Ambassadors, Ms. Sae Murai, Hiroshima Jogakuin High School, and Mr. Yuuki Yanagawa, Hiroshima Gakuin High School, and discussed the role of today’s youth, gender, diplomacy, and peace.
The UNITAR Youth Ambassador Programme provides an opportunity to learn about the United Nations system as well as careers in…
4 June 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR has just published its Training Catalogue on Public Finance, Trade and Intellectual Property featuring the thematic focus areas, partnerships and different training activities such as high-level conferences and fora, face-to-face seminars and workshops, communities of practice, and e-Learning courses.
The catalogue is being distributed to beneficiary institutions to ensure that they are aware of the training opportunities available from UNITAR in the field of finance, trade and intellectual property. In addition, it is also being…
28 February 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - The Local Development Programme of UNITAR, in partnership with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), is launching an e-Learning course in Spanish on Sustainable Urban Mobility in Developing Countries. The course will be running from 3 April to 10 July 2013.
The course addresses below questions as well as provides solutions and alternative approaches that target a more sustainable transport system in developing cities.
Do we dare to create a transport model different from that of the so-called advanced world…
Each year, UNITAR educates the diplomatic community on the structure, use and retrieval of UN documentation. What is documentation and why is it so important? A quick look at the latest version of the Oxford dictionary offers the following definition for the word document: “Piece of written, printed or electronic matter that provides record or evidence of events”. It is not surprising, therefore, that the documentation of the United Nations has been over the years an essential basis for the work of the Organization, a reflection of the United Nations…
UNITAR Participates in the Fifteenth Coordination Meeting on International Migration
16 February 2017, New York, USA - Mr. Nikhil Seth, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) chaired today a Panel of Experts organized by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United Nations during the Fifteenth Coordination Meeting on International Migration.
Mr. Seth stressed the need for ongoing negotiation for a Migration Compact to be open and transparent…
UNITAR Launches International Relations and Global Diplomacy Programme
16 June 2017, New York, U.S.A - The United Nations Institute of Training and Research organized the launch of a new certification programme alongside with Collegiate Congress titled International Relations and Global Policy that has been designed for students who are currently pursuing political science, international relations, global studies, or other related programmes in their senior year of undergraduate, or any graduate programme. This programme is consisted of 14 weeks, where students are able…