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24 May 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations marked the 7th UN Road Safety Week from 15 May to 21, 2023, to raise awareness about the urgent need to continue to promote road safety and save lives. Road traffic deaths and injuries remain a global problem, with 1.3 million people dying and over 50 million people injured each year. Globally, more than 500 children are killed on the road each day (WHO).
In line with the theme of Road Safety Week, “Rethinking Mobility: Sustainability, Safety and Inclusion, UNITAR and its Global Network of CIFAL Training Centres hosted ...
12-13 October 2011, Geneva, Switzerland. The workshop on “Regional Integration: Key Negotiation Challenges Moving Forward”, which was directed by Dr. El Hadji A. Diouf (Executive Director, African Agency for Trade and Development) and Dr. Christian Häberli (Senior Fellow, World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland) had 23 participants from 16 Sub-Saharan African countries. Senior trade experts from UNDP, South Centre and World Trade Organization also made presentations on specific issues and shared their insights with the participants in the thematic…
27 October, Geneva, Switzerland - UNITAR, the Institute for Industrial Policy Studies (IPS), and the Taylor Institute at Franklin University Switzerland (FUS), collaborate on National Competitiveness Report and Nations Brand Value Ranking Report. The results of the Reports were released on October 27, 2022, in a public conference by IPS and FUS, and co-hosted by UNITAR.
Result of IPS Research Shows that "Strategy" Matters.
The other reports on national competitiveness, including those of IMD and WEF, release only one ranking while IPS releases two: differentiation a...
30 January 2024, Hiroshima, Japan – UNITAR Division for Prosperity will hold the “Digital Champions” forum on 20-21 February 2024 in Warsaw as the final session of the digital reskilling training programme for Ukrainian women evacuees in Poland. More than 40 top-performing programme participants will be invited to join the forum, where they will discuss and present data analytics, cybersecurity, geographic information systems, or digital graphics and web design.
The forum will also provide several businesses the opportunity to introduce their companies to t...
I am delighted to share our work and progress of 2018 at UNITAR Hiroshima Office. 2018 has been a fruitful year for both Hiroshima and the UNITAR Hiroshima Office. Hiroshima’s local baseball team, Toyo Carp, has claimed the Central League Championship for the third year in a row. The UNITAR Hiroshima Office has also been busy and active, celebrating its 15th anniversary since it began operations in 2003.
We have implemented numerous capacity building training workshops inside and outside Japan, supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targeted at leaders fro...