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27 February 2024, Geneva, Switzerland ― UNITAR recently signed a new partnership agreement with the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), a non-profit organization based in Rwanda, for a collaborative project on value-based healthcare (VBHC).
The VBHC Programme, established in 2021 by UNITAR, aims to improve patient outcomes through the integration of VBHC approaches.
The collaborative work between UNITAR and UGHE will focus on enhancing surgical care systems for breast cancer management. Breast cancer was the second most commonly occurring cancer worldwide in 2022,...
The devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti resulted in an outpouring of relief and an unprecedented variety of crowdsourcing efforts. UNOSAT was heavily involved in damage assessment and analysis activities, ingesting data from the crowd but also synthesizing lessons learned from previous emergencies. The work was conducted in integrated and participatory involving the European Commission Joint Research Centre and the World Bank-GFDRR, the Haitian National Centre for Geo-Spatial Information, Swisstopo and the University of Zurich. This widespread effort combined im...
CIFAL Shanghai hosted the XII Smart City Public Lecture “Smart City and Food Safety”
2 March 2015, Shanghai, China – CIFAL Shanghai hosted the XII Smart City Public Lecture “Smart City and Food Safety” at Shanghai Sciences Hall on 4 February 2015. This one-day lecture focused on the informatization of food safety management, bringing together 69 participants from different industries.
This event is part of a series of Smart City Public Lectures aimed at raising awareness about smart city development. The series of lectures serve as a unique platform to exchange ideas and…
9月21日午後6時から、国際平和デーに際した公開ウェビナーを開催します。
各国で核軍縮の分野で活躍する若手リーダーたちが核兵器のない世界への突破口について議論を交わします。
英語と日本語の同時通訳で実施します。
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, 2022年9月13日・広島 – 国際平和デーの9月21日、国連訓練調査研究所（ユニタール）持続可能な繁栄局・広島事務所は、各国で核軍縮の分野で活躍する若手リーダーたちが核兵器のない世界への突破口について語り合う公開ウェビナーを開催いたします。
日時：2022年9月21日（水）18:00 – 20:00 （日本時間）
媒体：オンライン
言語：英語・日本語（同時通訳有。小集団でのセッションは主に英語で行われますが、必要に応じて日本語でのサポートがあります）
入場料：無料
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, 実験が繰り返し行われてきたマーシャル諸島の学生団体や、カナダを拠点とする核科学などの情報提供を行うNGO団体、核兵器廃絶のための行動・提言を展開しているKnow Nukes Tokyoなど9団体が参加します。
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23 April 2019, Geneva, Switzerland – 24 technical experts from the government and academic institutions in Uganda successfully completed a one-week course in the use of Earth observations (EO) and geographic information system (GIS) for hazard assessment, delivered by UNOSAT from 25 to 29 March 2019 in Kampala, Uganda. When it comes to GIS technical training, the trend towards a more balanced gender ratio has been remarkably harder to achieve; however, this learning event had over 50 percentages of female participants.
The training was provided in collaboration with Inter-...
A record 62 million tonnes (Mt) of e-waste was produced in 2022, Up 82% from 2010;
On track to rise another 32%, to 82 million tonnes, in 2030;
Billions of dollars worth of strategically-valuable resources squandered, dumped;
Just 1% of rare earth element demand is met by e-waste recycling.
Contacts:
Ruediger Kuehr, SCYCLE, UNITAR, +49 228 815 0213/4, ruediger.kuehr@unitar.org
David Hirsch, ITU, +41 22 730 5092; pressinfo@itu.int
Terry Collins, +1 416 878 8712; tc@tca.tc
The full Global E-waste Monitor report is available at: www.globalewaste.org, 20 March 2024,...
The online training phase (phase one) of the trans-regional capacity building programme for public debt auditors in supreme audit institutions (SAIs) which the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) is undertaking in cooperation with UNITAR and UNCTAD was recently concluded. Thirty-one (31) SAI audit teams (89 persons in total) from Africa, Asia and Europe have been trained in 10 online sessions organized by UNITAR including online virtual discussions for networking and information exchange among participating SAIs.
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E-Learning Course: 12 October – 22 November 2020
Field Visit to Geneva: 23 - 27 November 2020, Humankind is indisputably entering a new digital era. The impact of rapid technological and scientific advances on our lives is so great that World Economic Forum’s founder Klaus Schwab termed this process as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We are the witnesses of the transcendence through new frontiers.
These new frontiers go beyond traditional understanding of every aspect of human activity. Unlike in the past, diplomacy and international affa...
Recognizing the centrality of effective multistakeholder partnerships in accomplishing global and regional commitments towards the 2030 Agenda, the Division for Peace has multiplied efforts to strengthening the African Union-United Nations partnership enshrined in the Joint UN – AU Framework for Enhanced Partnership in Peace and Security. As the main regional body mandated to prevent and mediate conflict and sustain peace across the African continent, the African Union is an essential partner in achieving the Division for Peace’s sub-Objective of Supporting institutions and...
Multilateral Negotiations: Reconciliation and Peacebuilding
4 May 2015, New York, USA – Workshop on Multilateral Negotiations, Levelling the Playing Field: Reconciliation and Peacebuilding, conducted by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York Office.
Mr. Carl Skau, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations, discerns link of reconciliation and peacebuilding, and finds an important connection to the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC). With Sweden chairing the PBC, Mr. Skau, emphasizes the linkages between…