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10 April 2025, Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Sovereign Order of Malta successfully hosted a Human Rights Council side event titled, "After 25 Years of the Palermo Protocol – The Need for Real Action".Focusing on strengthening global efforts to combat human trafficking through capacity-building and training, the event brought together a plethora of experts in the field, encouraging rich dialogue and raising awareness of the remaining pitfalls in current methods following the General Assembly Resolution...
26 September 2025, Geneva, Switzerland - Building on the success of the 1st edition of the LEAP-FAST Certificate Programme, UNITAR and UNESCO, in academic partnership with Majmaah University and CIFAL Saudi Arabia, have launched the 2nd edition of the Programme.“Leaders in Higher Education Alliance and Programme – For Accelerating Sustainability Transformations” (LEAP-FAST) brings together a community of sustainability leaders in higher education from around the globe. 27 Higher Education Institutions are participating in the 2nd edition of the LEAP-FAST Certificate Program...
UNITAR Training Programme “Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Promoting Food Security and Economic Development in Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon” is now accepting applications from young entrepreneurs ages 18 to 45 in Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon.Participants will learn the fundamentals and advanced entrepreneurship concepts focusing on food security to achieve economic development and fight food insecurity.The programme will run from July 2024 until March 2025 and the application deadline is 30 June 2024.(As of 1 July, the application deadline has been extended to 7 July.), 28 May 2024...
Emmanuel Mutabazi is a digital skills advocate in Rwanda committed to reducing the digital divide. Through his foundation, he offers inclusive digital skills training programmes for communities that lack access to digital resources.With a background in ICT and youth empowerment, Emmanuel strives to close the digital skills gap and promote digital equality for young people and women in Rwanda.He participated in the UNITAR “Developing Essential Digital Skills for Women and Youth in Africa” programme, where he further developed his skills to realize his goals., 27 November 202...
On the 12th February 2025, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Sovereign Order of Malta at UNITAR’s headquarters in Geneva, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), establishing a strategic partnership aimed at addressing the global challenge of human trafficking through collaborative efforts over the next five years.The five-year strategic partnership seeks to leverage the respective expertise and resources of both entities to prevent, the rehabilitation of survivors, and the strengthening of international networks against human traff...
Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) is a process through which members of armed forces and groups are supported to lay down their weapons and return to civilian life. As a complex process, it comprehends political, security, social and economic dimensions aimed at creating an environment where a peace process, political and social reconciliation, as well as sustainable development, can take place.To compile lessons learned from DDR programmes implemented throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, the Inter-Agency Working Group on DDR (IAWG-DDR) developed and publ...
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...
UNITAR courses don’t just provide information — they help individuals develop ideas and solutions to the problems they face. They help individuals cultivate sustainable solutions. Mamunur Rahman is one of these individuals.
His project, Ella Pad, started as a proposal for his Sustainable Consumption and Production e-course. Now, his plan to make sanitary napkins from garment scraps has moved beyond UNITAR’s online classrooms to MIT D-Lab and actual Bangladeshi garment factories.
This is Ella Pad’s story.
Mamunur at the factory Zahara…
30 July 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - A training programmes on microfinance and financial inclusion run jointly by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Division for Prosperity and the Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND) was initially aimed at a few hundred staff from banks and microfinance bodies in the Middle East and Africa. But not only did it receive many more applications than expected from the target areas, it also attracted thousands from the wider finance and development sector from 108 countries.
Globally, there are more than ...
31 January 2023, Geneva, Switzerland- The Annual Geneva Interfaith Dialogue convenes a diverse panel of Ambassadors and other high-level representatives of the world’s major faiths, as well as the International Geneva community at large, to engage on the links between faith, politics, and society. The Dialogue is held on the premises of the United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG) each year during World Interfaith Harmony Week. It serves as a platform not simply to commemorate UNGA Resolution 65/5, but as a vehicle to raise public awareness, renew the Resolution’s commitments...