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12 December 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - Eighteen per cent of structures in the Gaza Strip have been damaged since the outburst of the conflict. This figure comes from a new satellite imagery analysis conducted by the United Nations Satellite Center (UNOSAT) based on an image collected on 26 November 2023 with the very-high resolution WorldView-3 satellite. Additionally, there has been a staggering 49% increase in total structures affected since the last assessment on 7 November 2023.
As of 26 November 2023, UNOSAT has identified 10,049 destroyed structures, 8,243 severely ...
Despite international developments to prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons, rapidly evolving global and regional geopolitics make it ever more urgent to establish a common understanding that nuclear disarmament is necessary for global peace. As the only United Nations entity with a presence in the symbolic city of Hiroshima, the city of peace, UNITAR seeks to spread Hiroshima’s message for peace through training government officials who are on the front-line of nuclear disarmament negotiations and awareness-raising activities. It is the best opportunity for all ...
Beneficiary: Jennifer Anderson
Title: Solicitor
Master: UOC — UNITAR Online Master in International Affairs and Diplomacy
For many people, making time to study when you already have a solid and successful career may seem like a crazy idea. Add other activities such as hobbies, social life, family responsibilities, and most of us would not even consider it.
Not Jennifer Anderson, though, who has a background in law and economics and works as a solicitor in Newcastle, Australia. Through the UOC — UNITAR Online Master in International Affairs and Diplomacy, sh...
Japan and UNITAR Successfully Conclude South Sudan Fellowship Programme 2015 Cycle and Launch the Next 2016 Cycle
10 March 2016, Juba, South Sudan – The UNITAR Hiroshima Office and the Embassy of Japan in South Sudan, together with the Government of South Sudan, jointly announced the successful conclusion of the inaugural 2015 Cycle of the UNITAR South Sudan Fellowship Programme, a five-month specialized capacity building training programme for South Sudan, at the completion ceremony held in Juba today. The launch of the next 2016 Cycle was also proclaimed on that…
Twenty students from China joined the Youth Leadership and Global Challenges Seminar in Geneva in July 2024.The seminar was organized by UNITAR in collaboration with Shanghai Creative Twin Cities and Curidaosity.The seminar featured interactive sessions, expert lectures and presentations, as well as tours of the Palais des Nations. These activities aimed to empower participants with leadership skills and innovative ideas.The distinguished speakers and hands-on workshops focused on climate change, sustainable development, global health and social innovation., 5 Septembe...
The work of UNOSAT is widely known across the UN and its members states and appreciated by scores of humanitarian experts and responders in particular. Although the satellite programme has launched its humanitarian Rapid Mapping Service in 2003, its capacity has been boosted in more recent years by the evolution of technology and the greater availability and resolution of commercial satellite imagery. Today UNOSAT has doubled its team members and its capacity to respond to more requests more rapidly. In over ten years of work and more than 300 crises, UNOSAT analysts can…
6 April 2022 - This virtual side event organized by UNITAR, as part of the Crowd4SDG project, brought together passionate stakeholders involved with Citizen Science Data (CSD). Speakers shared their experience working with citizen scientists, as well as enabling the use of CSD by National Statistical Offices and Systems (NSOs and NSSs).
Ms. Hayoi Chen, Coordinator of the Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys at the UN Statistics Division moderated this session and representatives from UNITAR, Office for National Statistics UK (ONS), the Dutch National Insti...
Lucretia Dreyer, a South African disability inclusion advocate, completed the 2023 UNITAR “Developing Essential Digital Skills for Women and Youth in Africa” training programme.The programme showed Lucretia the significant potential of assistive technologies in helping children with disabilities learn coding and robotics.Lucretia hopes to establish an inclusive coding and robotics programme where children with and without disabilities can learn together.The Japan-funded UNITAR programme ran from November 2023 to March 2024 and aimed to prepare 7,000 women and youth fro...
04 December 2020, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR’s Road Safety Global Training Initiative and the International Road Federation (IRF) partnered to deliver a series of Master Classes on the “Management Practices for Safer Roads Toolkit” in the framework of regional conferences.
The first Master Class took place on the 29th of October 2020, in the framework of the 9th IRF Caribbean Regional Congress on “Preparing the Caribbean for a Decade of Change”. During this Master Class, 187 participants from 34 countries were introduced by UNITAR to the “Management Practices for Sa...
16 August 2013, Khartoum, Sudan - After initial flooding that killed more than 50 people in the first week of August, Sudan’s weather authorities have announced that heavy rain falling in Ethiopia is likely to cause additional flooding in Sudan. So far the floods affected 200,000 Sudanese, according to the Minister of Interior, and have prompted aid from Qatar, Egypt and Ethiopia.
UNOSAT has been working in rapid mapping mode since the first flood episodes on 1 August. The result as in all these types of situations, are individual maps and analytical reports. One of these…