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ANE GOODALL, PhD, DBE
United Nations Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute
Nature's wake-up call: Why we must heed the warning
Wednesday, 26 May 2010 | 4:30 p.m.
Palais des Nations; Assembly Hall
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World-renowned environmental advocate Jane Goodall shared her reasons for hope at the 4th edition of the Geneva Lecture Series
Dr. Jane Goodall, the ke...
国連ユニタール（本部）はフランコフォニー国際機関（OIF）と共同で公共財務担当者のためのオンラインの実践コミュニティを立上げました。公共財政研修終了後も研修生や講師間でネットワークを保ちながら参考資料、情報や成功事例の共有を行い、直面する課題や解決法の議論を通じてオンライン上のグループで学びを継続していきます。また、実践コミュニティは研修中に学んだ知識やツールが各自の能力強化にどのように役立っているかインパクトをモニタリングすることが可能です。このプログラムはフランス語圏の公共財務担当者を対象としています。...
The Advisory Board for the NCD, Digital Health, and Capacity Building Division brings together a distinguished group of experts committed to UNITAR’s vision, mission, and strategic objectives.The Advisory Board provides critical insights and technical guidance to ensure that the Division’s programmes and activities align with UNITAR’s mandate, UN guidelines, and the strategic framework objectives of promoting health for all. By championing UNITAR’s objective to promote health for all, particularly for the most vulnerable people and countries, the Advisory Board plays a pivo...
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop) is a forum where world leaders come together to collectively act towards achieving the climate goals agreed under the Paris Agreement and Convention.
This year’s conference, which took place in Sharm el-Sheikh, brought together six high-level roundtable sessions on cross-cutting issues, including food security, water security, finance, energy security, vulnerable communities, and transition from fuels. A tweet from Ambassador Mohamed Nasr, Director General for Climate, Egyptian, expressed his views behind the urgency behi...
The Learning Solutions team within UNITAR’s Division for Peace embodies the cutting-edge skills and forward-thinking culture advocated in the UN 2.0 Quintet of Change. For over 13 years, we have been champions of agile, diverse, responsive, and impactful ways of working. Central to achieving the vision of UN 2.0 is a quintet of modern skills that have tremendous potential to enhance the work of United Nations entities in support of Member States. Learning Solutions supports the Division for Peace's alignment with the UN 2.0 quintet of change in the following ways:...
1. HOW DO I APPLY FOR THE MASTER PROGRAMME OR FOR INDIVIDUAL MODULES AND WHAT ARE THE ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS?
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. However, to be considered for a specific semester, please submit your application not later than 1st of March - to start in April and 1st of September - to start in October. You will be informed about the result within three weeks. Once admitted, you will receive an admission letter and you will have up to six months to secure enough funding and start attending the courses.
The admission requirements are:
(1) Three-ye...
How many steps did you take this year? “What kind of steps?” – some would wonder. Some would say: “Too many, how could I possibly count them?”. The fact is – steps can be different: big or small, quick and effortless, or time-consuming and requiring one to go above and beyond to even attempt them. Some steps can get you wherever you aim to be in no time, if taken from close proximity. Others would not get you even in sight of the goal if you are starting from afar. What unites them all is that the one taking a step is moving in the right direction and, hence, every step mat...
The traditional view of a peacekeeping mission is that missions’ mandates are carried out by the military, so we expected to learn how we as civilians could contribute to it and what our organisation could do in collaboration with the UN in the domain of peacekeeping and peacebuilding.
says Ingy Hamdy, Head of Social Media at the League of Arab States (LAS), about her expectations of UNITAR’s intensive two-year training programme. Ingy is one of twenty five LAS Task Force members that took part in UNITAR’s tailor-made online and face-to-face trainings, which unfold...
Youth are neither passive victims nor pure perpetrators of violence; rather they are complex actors. Therefore, planning for the future of a country post-conflict necessitates engaging with the youth of today. In line with the Agenda 2030 and its overarching objective of Leaving No One Behind, support for the stabilisation and the strengthening of fragile states is a central goal of UNITAR, and as such so is the inclusion of youth, women, victims, ex-combatants, and the most marginalised ones in peace and reconciliation processes.
Colombia, emerging from half a century of ...
UNITAR, the Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar and the International Law Association invite you to attend the High-Level Dialogue on Justice and Capacity-Building in International Law. Taking place on 7th May 2025 from 13:00 - 14:30 p.m. at the Palais des Nations, Room S4, this event brings together leading legal scholars, practitioners and diplomats to critically examine how the legal capacities of Developing Countries, Least Developed Countries (LDCs), and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are perceived and operationalized within international law, and how these ...