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Until 08 October 2024, Poland had received 981,335 refugees[1] from Ukraine fleeing the war in the country, most of whom are women and children (UNHCR, 2024a, 2024b). Efforts to assist refugees’ economic integration are underway, including job training and language classes, with support from international and local organizations (UNHCR, 2024b). As part of these efforts, the UNITAR Division for Prosperity, with financial support from the Government and the People of Japan, organized the programme “Emergency assistance for Ukrainian women refugees in Poland with digital 4IR t...
Since the inception of the monitoring by the UNOSAT Programme of piracy activity off the coasts of Somalia, the interest of international organizations and media has continued to grow. Today a number of maritime offices and international organisations, and national agencies, use the updated maps prepared by UNOSAT as reference material. These maps document the history of recent attacks perpetrated by pirates and their exact geographic locations, allowing to establish trends in specific areas of the Somali coastline and also to identify areas in which incidents have a…
Karin Kohlweg is an independent evaluation consultant with more than fifteen years of experience in international development. She has substantial experience in planning, managing, and implementing different types of evaluations, studies, reviews, UNEG peer reviews, and meta-analyses in various sectors and topics including gender mainstreaming, institutional capacity development, education, civil society, private sector, water, hygiene and sanitation and others. She conducted quality assurance on a regular basis, developed, and revised evaluation guidelines and manuals and…
Antwerp, Belgium, 5 June 2012 - A group of 30 participants from the diamond sector participated in the first of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Meet-up in Antwerp.
This session was organized by UNITAR, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, through the Antwerp International Training Center for Corporate Opportunities (Antwerp ITCCO) in collaboration with the Antwerp Management School and the Global Compact network Belgium and was hosted by the Antwerp World Diamond Centre.
It took place ahead of a "Meet & Greet” session (see photo) held during a…
CIFAL Shanghai Concludes Conference on Education to Promote Development
18 October 2018, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Shanghai (CIFAL Shanghai) jointly with Shanghai Additive Manufacturing Innovation Center and the Beijing Shangkun Education Group convened the Conference “Education to Promote Development” in Pudong Lingang Industry Park, Shanghai.
The Conference gathered more than 200 participants from the academia and the private sector with the objectives of promoting education as a tool to…
Considering the importance of the global automotive market and that a key component of the Safe Systems Approach is Safe Vehicles, legislation, policies, and strategies related to promoting safer vehicles are essential for improving road safety globally. The global motor vehicle fleet (including passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles) currently exceeds 2 billion vehicles and is likely to reach 3.5 billion by 2031. Small to mid-size fleets account for roughly 88% of all commercial fleets on the road.Companies, organizations, and governments own and manage ...
5 June, 2019, Geneva, Switzerland and Paris, France - Climate Change poses a serious threat to future food supplies because of animal and plant species disappearing at an unprecedented rate. This will transform the way we produce, market and consume food, but for this to happen we must change our relationship with food both as producers and consumers. With a global population of 7 billion people and dwindling natural resources, we, as individuals, businesses and societies, need to learn to live and act in a sustainable way.
This is pushing companies to look for new and mor...
South Africa’s National Academy on Green Economy Fosters Change
2 March 2018, Midrand, South Africa - Stephen Barrow, a consultant at the South African Organic Sector Organisation (SAOSA), was among 100 people who took part in the country’s National Academy on Green Economy.
“This has been an amazing opportunity to expand our horizons and to interact with folk from different sectors of the green economy,” Barrow said. “I am very encouraged by PAGE and GIZ’s support for the organic sector in South Africa, which has been hugely important. We have battled to raise…
24 September 2020, Geneva, Switzerland - On 24 September 2020, 50 participants took part in a four-hour webinar on the topic “Sustainable Development Goals in the Private Sector”, organized and implemented by UNITAR and the Global Institute of Excellence in Hong Kong. In a short introduction, UNITAR’s executive director Nikil Seth explained how the Sustainable Development Goals and the private sector are ultimately connected and how the business sector has an immense influence on the impact of climate change and the ecological footprint. Especially now, in the mi...
Geneva – 10 December 2008 - The 2nd Edition of the Geneva Lecture Series that was to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights gathered a large and diverse audience of more than 1,000 people.
H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco, in the company of Mr. Carlos Lopes, Executive Director of UNITAR, Mr. Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of UNOG and several members of the UNITAR Board of Trustees, met with Dr. Shirin Ebadi and Dr. Wole Soyinka on the occasion of the 2nd Edition of the Geneva Lecture Series and the…