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11 October 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - In collaboration with the Global Surgery Foundation, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, VSee, and Health Tech Without Borders, UNITAR is pleased to announce the launch of the webinar series “Breaking Barriers: Exploring the Future of Global Health Technologies”. Health technologies have become a cornerstone in the worldwide pursuit of universal healthcare access. Their multifaceted impact encompasses enhanced healthcare efficiency, extended healthcare services reach, and secure health information sharing. These innovation...
28 June 2022, Geneva, Switzerland - Franklin University Switzerland (FUS) graduate students of the Master of Science in International Management (MSIM) with an emphasis in Responsible Management and Climate Action had the opportunity to pitch their final presentations from the UNITAR-FUS Summer Experience at the UNITAR Headquarters.
The presentations were the result of six weeks of practical and hands-on experience along with UNITAR experts in the areas of renewable energy, social justice, and Education for the SDGs. These topics were researched and studied by the st...
27 February 2024, Geneva, Switzerland ― UNITAR recently signed a new partnership agreement with the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), a non-profit organization based in Rwanda, for a collaborative project on value-based healthcare (VBHC).
The VBHC Programme, established in 2021 by UNITAR, aims to improve patient outcomes through the integration of VBHC approaches.
The collaborative work between UNITAR and UGHE will focus on enhancing surgical care systems for breast cancer management. Breast cancer was the second most commonly occurring cancer worldwide in 2022,...
The devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti resulted in an outpouring of relief and an unprecedented variety of crowdsourcing efforts. UNOSAT was heavily involved in damage assessment and analysis activities, ingesting data from the crowd but also synthesizing lessons learned from previous emergencies. The work was conducted in integrated and participatory involving the European Commission Joint Research Centre and the World Bank-GFDRR, the Haitian National Centre for Geo-Spatial Information, Swisstopo and the University of Zurich. This widespread effort combined im...
E-Learning Course: 12 October – 22 November 2020
Field Visit to Geneva: 23 - 27 November 2020, Humankind is indisputably entering a new digital era. The impact of rapid technological and scientific advances on our lives is so great that World Economic Forum’s founder Klaus Schwab termed this process as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We are the witnesses of the transcendence through new frontiers.
These new frontiers go beyond traditional understanding of every aspect of human activity. Unlike in the past, diplomacy and international affa...
23 April 2019, Geneva, Switzerland – 24 technical experts from the government and academic institutions in Uganda successfully completed a one-week course in the use of Earth observations (EO) and geographic information system (GIS) for hazard assessment, delivered by UNOSAT from 25 to 29 March 2019 in Kampala, Uganda. When it comes to GIS technical training, the trend towards a more balanced gender ratio has been remarkably harder to achieve; however, this learning event had over 50 percentages of female participants.
The training was provided in collaboration with Inter-...
A record 62 million tonnes (Mt) of e-waste was produced in 2022, Up 82% from 2010;
On track to rise another 32%, to 82 million tonnes, in 2030;
Billions of dollars worth of strategically-valuable resources squandered, dumped;
Just 1% of rare earth element demand is met by e-waste recycling.
Contacts:
Ruediger Kuehr, SCYCLE, UNITAR, +49 228 815 0213/4, ruediger.kuehr@unitar.org
David Hirsch, ITU, +41 22 730 5092; pressinfo@itu.int
Terry Collins, +1 416 878 8712; tc@tca.tc
The full Global E-waste Monitor report is available at: www.globalewaste.org, 20 March 2024,...
9月21日午後6時から、国際平和デーに際した公開ウェビナーを開催します。
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日時：2022年9月21日（水）18:00 – 20:00 （日本時間）
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Recognizing the centrality of effective multistakeholder partnerships in accomplishing global and regional commitments towards the 2030 Agenda, the Division for Peace has multiplied efforts to strengthening the African Union-United Nations partnership enshrined in the Joint UN – AU Framework for Enhanced Partnership in Peace and Security. As the main regional body mandated to prevent and mediate conflict and sustain peace across the African continent, the African Union is an essential partner in achieving the Division for Peace’s sub-Objective of Supporting institutions and...
25 May 2021, Hong Kong, China / Hiroshima, Japan - The United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR) and ITS Education Asia will jointly launch the UNITAR Youth Ambassador Asia Pacific Programme in Hong Kong and other cities in China. The 10-week programme empowers high school students to help our world build back better, greener, and stronger from the COVID-19 pandemic. It trains the young people on sustainable development and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“Youth are the driving force of social development and how we act...