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«Aprender a estar en la piel de otro, a ver a través de sus ojos, así es como comienza la paz. Y depende de ti que ocurra». - Brack Obama, El Ex-Presidente de los Estados Unidos de América
, Panel virtual interactivo
30 de junio de 2021, 9:00 am -11:00 am, horario de Colombia (CET+7), online
La sociedad colombiana lleva más de 50 años de conflicto armado. Generaciones de colombianos arrastran sus experiencias personales de exclusión y violencia en todas sus manifestaciones. Su form...
Imagine, reflect, achieve!
This year, UNITAR has the pleasure to present its Executive Swiss Alps Retreat on Leadership and Excellence. This retreat is part of a series and will aim to bring together participants from both the public and private sectors, to generate synergies and opportunities for learning and mutual engagement. Leadership skills are essential to building new and strategic, personal and professional development trajectories, and in times of change must be prioritized.
Taking place in the beautiful Swiss Alps, the retreat will offer you the chance ...
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) featured UNOSAT map on Pakistan flood in its CERN Bulletin (number 40 – 41) and Mr. Einar Bjorgo, Humanitarian Task Manager at UNOSAT was interviewed, explaining UNOSAT involvement in supporting the humanitarian workers from collecting raw satellite images to mapping the damage caused by the floods. According to Mr. Bjorgo, UNOSAT was not only involved from the beginning, but will stay long after the emergency phase is fading.
For more information, please visit online CERN Bulletin or download the PDF version of the…
A number of substantive discussions were held with UNITAR's counterparts, including the Governor, the Mayor and President of Hiroshima University. The discussions covered, inter alia, the launch of a fund-mobilisation phase for two new initiatives -- on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, and on architectural and urban reconstruction; the expansion of current environmental training initiatives of the office with additional themes, including training on the implementation of international environmental treaties as well as countermeasures for chemical substances and…
Born in Austria thirty-five years ago, Sabine Samarawickrema has devoted a huge part of her life to questions tied to sustainable consumption. During her Ph.D., which was completed in Vienna in 2011, she travelled to a lot of different places, working among others for the United Nations in New York. Having met her future husband in New York, she moved to Sri Lanka in 2011 and started working with various NGO's and the UN, active in the field of sustainable development, child protection or education.
But this enthusiastic young woman had to have her own way: one year later…
“The Executive Diploma is an incredible melting pot of notable speakers, experienced diplomats and other enthusiasts looking to learn and contribute to enlightening discussions on global diplomatic leadership” – Mary Dinah, Chief Executive Officer, M.A.D Hospitality (Participant, 4th Edition)
, After four remarkable editions, UNITAR is delighted to announce that applications for the 5th Edition of its Executive Diploma in Diplomatic Practice is now open.
UNITAR’s Executive Diploma stands out as a programme tailored to prepare diplomats and other actors, including th...
Learn more about UNITAR Division for Prosperity’s programmes and activities from late November 2024 to February 2025. Past issues in August 2024 and November 2024., United Nations Secretary-General Appoints Michelle Gyles-McDonnough as Executive Director of UNITAR UNITAR welcomes Ms. Michelle Gyles-McDonnough of Jamaica as its new Executive Director. She succeeds Mr. Nikhil Seth of India, effective 22 February 2025. With over 30 years of experience in sustainable development, policy advocacy, international trade, international relations and organizational cha...
2 March 2010
In collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the MacArthur Foundation, UNITAR is holding a side event to the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. The side event about "female migration" will discuss the opportunities and challenges female migrants face in relation to women empowerment and gender equality.
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6 April 2009
Nairobi, Kenya
The initiative “Access to basic services for all”, jointly initiated by UNITAR and UN-HABITAT in 2004, aims at providing the development partners (including National Governments, local authorities, United Nations agencies and the international financial institutions, public and private sector, NGOs, etc.) a formal and mutually agreed basis which would govern the relations between the different stakeholders with a view to improving the provision of basic services.
Resolution 22/8 completes the Resolutions of 2005 (20/5) and 2007 (21/4) and…
16 July 2019, New York, NY, USA – During the work visit of the Executive Director of UNITAR, Mr. Nikhil Seth, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research completed several meetings with UN officials on the 10th, the 15th and the 16th July. Mr. Seth met with the Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Amina Mohammed, with the CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev, Mr. Carlos Brito and with the Under-Secretary-General for Counter-Terrorism, Mr. Vladimir Voronkov.
On Wednesday 10 at noon the Executive Director also visited the Permanent Mission of Switzerland with the Head of the New ...