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On 24 August 2025, 25 high school students from Hiroshima Prefecture celebrated the completion of the 2025 UNITAR Hiroshima Youth Ambassador Programme in Hiroshima City.The two-month programme started in June 2025 and was run by UNITAR with the support of the Hiroshima Prefectural Government and Soroptimist International Hiroshima Chuo and in cooperation with the UNITAR Association.The Hiroshima Youth Ambassadors learned about nuclear disarmament and peacebuilding, focusing on human rights and international law, passing on the legacy of atomic bomb survivors, and peace educ...
Thai diplomat Manchulika Wongchai participated in the 10th Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Training Programme in Hiroshima in February 2025.Manchulika highlights the importance of considering the effects of emerging technologies on disarmament.What she has learned from this training programme has immensely strengthened her preparation for the Third Meeting of the State Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.Manchulika was encouraged by connecting with other diplomats in the region and aims to inspire young people to pursue careers in diplomacy...
August 6th marked an historic occasion for UNITAR's Hiroshima Office as H. E. Ban Ki-moon became the first United Nations Secretary-General to visit the historic city. He delivered a speech during the memorial ceremony of the 65th Anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and also presented a floral offering at the cenotaph commemorating it's victims.
Here he is shown during his visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum where he was accompanied by Ambassador Yukio Takasu, Japan's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and the Head of the UNITAR Hiroshima…
8 November 2011, Geneva, Switzerland – As Thailand is still experiencing its worst flood in 50 years, UNOSAT and its partner Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC), based in Bangkok, have been intensifying their efforts to monitor flood waters since the onset of the crisis. In line with its growing involvement in collaborative mapping and crowd sourcing, UNOSAT has facilitated the introduction in current crisis monitoring activities over Bangkok of a new application capable of using input from local volunteers to add useful information to satellite derived mapping.…
UNITAR and CIFAL Curitiba Promoting Action on Road Safety Policy
1-2 August 2017, Curitiba, Brazil - With the objective of contributing towards halving road traffic deaths and injuries by 2020, UNITAR and the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Curitiba (CIFAL Curitiba) with the support of Diageo hosted the international capacity building workshop “Strengthening Road Safety in Latin America”.
The workshop took place in Curitiba, Brazil during the 1st and 2nd of August, bringing together over 100 representatives from governments, the private…
Thursday 7 July 2022, New York, USA – The Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Mr. Mikhil Seth, visited New York City during the week of the 2022 High-level Political Forum (HLPF). Mr. Seth met with several department officials, exchanged opinions, and discussed the work on capacity training for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
On Tuesday, 5 July, Mr. Seth moderated the HLPF Townhall meeting held at the UN General Assembly Hall to discuss ways to build back better and advance the Sustainable Developmen...
29 September - 3 November 2018, Atlanta, United States - The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Atlanta (CIFAL Atlanta) jointly with Kennesaw State University (KSU), hosted 21 young leaders from Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam who participated in the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI).
The YSEALI is a U.S. State Department Program that aims to build the leadership capabilities of youth in Southeast Asia and promote cross-border cooperation to solve regional and global challenges...
The Third Edition of World Negotiation Day took place on 30 November 2023 in the Palais des Nations, Geneva. Hosted by UNITAR and ADN Group and with generous support from the State of Qatar, World Negotiation Day serves to unite the world’s most renowned contributors to peaceful negotiations and conflict resolution. Please click here for information about the the 2024 Edition. , World Negotiation Day 2023 - Palais des Nations on November 30, 2023 The event brought together some of the greatest bilateral and multilateral negotiators and experts from across the glob...
The overall objective of the Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop was to train healthcare professionals as confident and competent trainers with the skills to plan, conduct and evaluate breastfeeding education training. The ToT event also provided training and learning solutions and tools to improve breastfeeding initiation rates and duration, as well as women's breastfeeding knowledge and skills.Through the training provided by the trained trainers, parents will be in control of their own breastfeeding journey and make well-informed choices while ensuring that healthcare wo...
Betty Mwende, a digital literacy advocate from Kenya and a person with a disability, completed the 2023 “Developing Essential Digital Skills for Women and Youth in Africa” training programme.Betty volunteers to teach basic computer skills to children in her community to help bridge the digital gap.Through the UNITAR programme, she built her project management and digital skills, gained confidence and won valuable exposure.The Japan-funded programme equipped 7,000 women and youth in Africa with skills in data analysis, software development, project management, busi...