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New Executive Diploma in Diplomatic Practice Launched by UNITAR
UNITAR is pleased to announce the launch of its new Executive Diploma in Diplomatic Practice. From September 2015 to August 2016, UNITAR will deliver 10 face-to-face training activities on Diplomatic Practice in Geneva, Switzerland.
These activities are executive-style trainings focusing on international cooperation and multilateral diplomacy. They are aimed at enhancing participants’ understanding of the United Nations System, its organs and procedures, as well as strengthening skills to facilitate…
Briefing for New Delegates on the 72nd Session of the General Assembly
11-12 September 2017 New York, USA – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) hosted a two-day session with the Forum on Small States (FOSS), sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the Singapore to the United Nations (UN) titled, “Briefing for Delegates on the 72nd Session of the General Assembly and the Main Committees”. The purpose of the short but intensive briefing was to introduce and familiarize new delegates, especially from FOSS member states, with the United Nations…
28-30 June 2011, New York, USA. The UNITAR New York Office, jointly with the with the Dag Hammarskjöld Library and in cooperation with the Office of Legal Affairs organized a Workshop on the structure, retrieval and use of United Nations documentation at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
According to the evaluation questionnaires, the workshop was a success and most of the respondents were completely satisfied. All the participants stated that they would recommend the workshop to a colleague.
The workshop consisted of two sessions:
The first…
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...
Women entrepreneurs, business leaders and those running micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) from three Regional Economic Communities across sub-Saharan Africa are invited to apply to a UNITAR entrepreneur training programme.
The Advancing Gender Equality and Women Empowerment 2023 Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Training Programme will teach participants the foundational concepts of entrepreneurship and financial management to build their capacity as entrepreneurs.
The application deadline is 31 July 2023 (midnight, EAT).
, 28 June 2023, Hiroshima,...
21 September 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - The UN CC:Learn Knowledge Sharing Platform has been completely revamped. The newly launched website broadens its focus to reach a large and varied audience interested in climate change learning, cementing UN CC:Learn commitment to creating the best user experience for all.
The platform continues to provide a single access to UN resources relevant for climate change learning, including the UN CC:Learn library of publications, a list of knowledge portals and a calendar of events. The new Knowledge Sharing Platform is al...
New Women’s Leadership Workshop Dates for Geneva and Vienna
2 May 2016, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR announces new dates for Women’s Leadership workshops in Geneva, Switzerland and Vienna, Austria. The upcoming workshops are open to women from the public and private sector.
The two-day workshops will take place in Geneva on 1 and 2 June and then a few weeks later, in Vienna on 30 June and 1 July.
The workshops will build on the success of previous workshops which have illustrated the importance and demand for such learning opportunities. Feedback from the workshops…
UNITAR’s Multilateral Diplomacy Programme (MDP) will launch a new e-learning course on Overcoming Negotiation Deadlocks running 21 May - 18 June 2012. This groundbreaking new course will draw on the expertise of academis and professionals in the field to deliver a training course aimed at negotiators worldwide who want to acquire the skills and expertise needed to tackle the most difficult of all negotiation challenges: the deadlock.
Course modules will look at key components of effective negotiations, psychological factors that influence our negotiation behaviour,…
3rd Youth Climate Dialogues between Uganda and Lugano Students
Amidst high-level climate talks in Paris, Swiss students and students from Sub-Saharan Africa, share their climate change experiences via Skype
22 December 2015, Lugano, Switzerland - While the COP 21 negotiations are in full swing, the third event of the Youth Climate Dialogues initiative took place in Lugano, Switzerland. The event featured an online discussion on climate change between the Swiss and Ugandan schools.
This initiative has been jointly initiated by the Swiss Agency for Development…
Forum of Small States Interactive Session Held in New York
16 June 2016, New York, USA - The Permanent Mission of the Republic of Singapore in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of Sweden, organized an Interactive Session between the Forum of Small States (FOSS), United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the Office of Information and Communication Technology (OICT). The session aimed to determine the countries' needs and collect feedback from FOSS countries in order for UNITAR to provide the best level of training possible.
Singapore’s…