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The Partners of the Nairobi Framework organized a side event on Way Forward - Facing New Challenges that showcased the activities implemented by the Partners in 2010 and their planned initiatives for 2011. The event took place at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 16), Cancun, Mexico on 1 December 2010 and was attended by about 50 persons.
During the side event, UNITAR’s presentation on Promoting CDM in Developing Countries informed participants that UNITAR joined the Nairobi Framework in 2009 to lend its comparative advantage in the area of…
In advance of the highly anticipated United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 16) that took place in Cancun, Mexico from 28 November -10 December 2010, UNITAR was commissioned by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat to deliver a high-level briefing for the presiding officers who were to chair the various negotiating groups during the Conference.
The UNFCCC Conference in Cancun was particularly important, and caught the world’s attention, since negotiations in Copenhagen in 2009 had failed to take the necessary steps…
To these fundamental questions, inter alia, representatives of governments, UN agencies, international organizations and representatives of civil society tried to explore answers in Puerto Vallarta Mexico (November 8-11) where under the banner “Partnerships for Migration and Human Development: Shared Prosperity - Shared Responsibility” the Fourth Meeting of the Global Forum on Migration and Development was held.
The latest research findings demonstrate that forty per cent of international migration originates among bordering countries or those countries closely…
With the aim of addressing the growing challenge of money laundering and financing of terrorism, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) will conduct from 31 January to 25 March 2011 a new online course on Combating Money Laundering in partnership with Agence pour la Coopération et le Développement -Banques Populaires (ABPCD).
This course, which is entitled "Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism", was developped specifically to respond to the training needs of senior and middle level finance-sector professionals, with a special…
On 9 January 2011, the people of southern Sudan will vote in an independence referendum that may see the southern states parting from Sudan and creating an independent state in line with the outcome of 2005 peace accords. The United Nations and the international humanitarian community are concerned over potential referendum-related violence in a region rich on natural resources in a country that has suffered for years from extensive conflict. The result of the referendum could lead to widespread violence and important humanitarian consequences.
The UNOSAT Programme is…
UNOSAT is continuing its efforts to support UN agencies and humanitarian NGOs as southern Sudan engages in its independence referendum. Acting in consultation with and in support of several agencies including OCHA, WFP, DPKO, UNDP, UNOSAT is delivering high-resolution satellite imagery and analysis over areas of concern to the humanitarian community. This work is carried out in the framework of applied research on monitoring for human security. After developing applied solutions for operational humanitarian relief since 2003, the UNOSAT programme has…
Network Amplifies Groundbreaking Satellite Sentinel Project, Calls on Young People to Show that the “World is Watching”
New York, USA, 7 January 2011 – MTV and mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, are teaming up with George Clooney and the Satellite Sentinel Project– along with Not on Our Watch, the Enough Project, Google, the United Nations UNITAR Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and Trellon, LLC -- by calling on young people to help deter violence in Sudan, and send a loud message: “the world is…
Network Amplifies Groundbreaking Satellite Sentinel Project, Calls on Young People to Show that the “World is Watching”
New York, USA, 7 January 2011 – MTV and mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, are teaming up with George Clooney and the Satellite Sentinel Project– along with Not on Our Watch, the Enough Project, Google, the United Nations UNITAR Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and Trellon, LLC -- by calling on young people to help deter violence in Sudan, and send a loud message: “the world is…