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Nearly 30 officials and professionals from 11 Pacific small island countries embarked on a 12-day study tour in Japan as part of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) “Leave No One Behind: Rapid Response to Climate Crises through Early Warning Systems” training programme.The study tour aims to equip the participants with the knowledge and skills to effectively disseminate, monitor, analyse and respond to early warning signals for climate hazards and extreme weather events through expert-led lectures, field visits and group assignment...
Welcome to the Make an Impact Webinar Series, a collection of free, online webinar events presented by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the University for Peace (UPEACE), in the areas of Diplomacy (including Gender, Development, and International Careers), and International Law, held in spring 2024. Each session featured experts in their respective fields discussing some of the most pressing aspects of law and diplomacy, and the UN's work to advance the SDGs. , Post COP28 Dialogue: Women's Empowerment in Climate Change Nego...
Salma Khalifa, Regional Food Technologies at World Food Programme Cairo, Egypt Salma, a food scientist, had dedicated over eight years to the role of Product Development Manager in the private sector until she embarked on a transformative journey with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa (NENA) and the World Food Programme (WFP) Regional Bureau in Cairo. Salma holds a Master’s degree in food chemistry and is currently pursuing a PhD. Salma continues to apply the invaluable knowledge gained from the progr...
19 April 2021, Geneva, Switzerland – 111 senior business executives from AB InBev’s corporate affairs teams across the world joined the inaugural presentation of the Toolkit 2.0 “Designing and implementing campaigns in support of vaccination efforts to prevent and reduce the spread of COVID-19: Strategies for Companies” on 15 April 2021 at 9:00 EST.
One of the great challenges we face today is linked to the development of effective communication strategies that promote the adoption of protective behaviors to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, including vaccination.
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February 2012, Geneva, Switzerland - The new application, called “CyberMappr”, has been developed within the Citizen Cyberscience Centre (CCC), created by UNITAR, CERN and University of Geneva as an incubator of new tools involving citizen-to-citizen cyberscience. CyberMappr uses the internet to connect volunteers to each other and to a group of expert analysts at UNOSAT with one common mission. The initiative gained support from Hewlett Packard and the Shuttleworth Foundation, which is known for its support to groundbreaking ideas especially in the area of data sharin...
13 May 2025, Geneva, Switzerland — On 7 May 2025, The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of the State of Qatar to the United Nations in Geneva and the International Law Association (GCC Branch), hosted a High-Level Dialogue on Justice and Capacity-Building in International Law this week at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.The event brought together diplomats, legal scholars, and practitioners from around the world to examine how Developing Countries, Least Developed Countries (LDCs), and Small I...
Luay Hussein Moh’d is a Jordanian entrepreneur who is developing an app to connect patients with pharmacies, to simplify the process of locating medicines.He participated in the UNITAR Great Ideas Space 2022: Entrepreneurship for Public Health and COVID-19 Recovery programme, where he built fundamental skills and gained knowledge to ensure the success of his project., 28 August 2024, Hiroshima, Japan - Luay Hussein Moh’d is a Jordanian entrepreneur who wants to create positive change. With over 23 years of experience in the IT field – from programming and project management...
The DAE, under the Ministry of Agriculture in Bangladesh, has more than 25,000 workers in their department and is the largest ministry in the country. For more than 23 years, Dr. Mazharul Aziz has worked with the DAE to disseminate information and technologies developed at several national research institutes, directly to farmers at a grass root level. In his department, much of the work has traditionally been done manually. For instance, flood assessments, disaster assessments, land coverage and agricultural disease mapping were all analyzed and estimated without the help…
International Women’s Day is an important reminder of the enormous role that women have historically played and continue playing in their communities and globally for the achievement of a peaceful and sustainable future. Yet, at UNITAR, we believe that celebrating women and their achievements should go beyond a single – albeit important – date, as each day presents opportunities to take an active step towards gender equality and the empowerment of women.
Therefore, starting on 6 March 2020, UNITAR will launch a social media campaign #TakeAStep dedicated to the amplificati...
若き環境活動家Bryan Sinatraさんは、バリ島を拠点にマングローブの再生と保護に取り組むNGOの代表です。彼は2024年の国連ユニタール「自由で開かれたインド太平洋のリーダー育成研修：海洋と人間の安全保障」を修了しました。Bryanさんはこの研修で学んだ知識を活かして、自身の団体が製造するマングローブ由来製品の販売拡大に取り組んでいます。また、環境の持続可能性におけるマングローブの重要性を広く伝えることも目指しています。彼は、マングローブ保全を沿岸生態系全体の視点で統合的に捉えるホリスティック・アプローチの導入に意欲的です。, 2025年6月03日 広島 – 美しい自然で名高いインドネシアは、一方で災害の多い国でもあり、深刻な環境問題に直面しています。こうした状況を変えるべく立ち上がった若き環境活動家Bryan Sinatraさんは国連ユニタールの「自由で開かれたインド太平洋のリーダー育成研修：海洋と人間の安全保障」に参加しました。, Bryanさんの環境への情熱は、サンゴの収集から始まりました。それがきっかけで、沿岸部の暮らしを守る必要性を強く感じるようになりました。この情熱に導かれ、2023年にはマングローブの再生と保護に特化したバリ島拠点の非政府組織（NGO）のCEOに就任しました。同団体は、地域の漁師たちを支援し、技術とコミュ...