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31 July 2013, Geneva, Switzerland – The UN Decade of Action for Road Safety- 2011-2020 aims to reduce the number of deaths from road accidents down to 50% by 2020. Based on information on road safety from 182 countries, accounting for almost 99% of the world’s population, 1.24 million of road traffic deaths occur every year.
In this framework, UNITAR’s Training Center -CIFAL Curitiba- with the support of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has launched the “First call for case studies on road safety for universities in Latin America and the Caribbean” to…
CIFAL Quito Organizes a Forum on New Rurality
16 April 2015, Quito, Ecuador – CIFAL Quito, in collaboration with the Decentralized Government of the Province of Pichincha (GADP) and the Consortium of Autonomous Provincial Governments of Ecuador (CONGOPE) hosted the forum on New Rurality: a reflection on rural development on 7-8 April 2015 at FLACSO University in the city of Quito.
The event convened 235 authorities, including provincial prefects and mayors, to debate on alternative solutions to the main rural development issues in Ecuador.
During two days, participants…
Facilitating a dialogue on urban mobility and sustainable transport in Santo Domingo
20 September, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – UNITAR jointly with the Habitat III Secretariat and with the support of the Ministry of Public Works and Communications (MOPC) and the Dominican College of Architects and Engineers (CODIA), hosted the “Urban Morning on Mobility and Sustainable Transport”, bringing together some 65 government officials, private sector representatives, professionals and academics for a dynamic and open discussion on how to improve transport in Santo…
CIFAL El Salvador Hosted the Urban Morning: Central America Towards the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda
29 September 2016, San Salvador, El Salvador – CIFAL El Salvador jointly with the Habitat III Secretariat, the Central American Integration System (SICA) and the Central American Council of Housing and Human Settlements (CCVAH) hosted the dialogue “Urban Morning: Central America towards the implementation of the New Urban Agenda”, bringing together the Vice Ministers of Housing from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Belize, and the…
UNITAR Hiroshima concludes Second Anti-Corruption Workshop for the Sahel Region
4 March 2016, Hiroshima, Japan - The UNITAR Hiroshima Office successfully completed the second workshop of the UNITAR Hiroshima Law Enforcement Anti-Corruption Training Programme for the Sahel Region. Supported by the people of Japan and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, participants from law enforcement related organizations from 8 countries in the Sahel region of Africa - Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal - undertook intensive training in Tokyo…
CIFAL Atlanta Helps Host Participants of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative
21 March 2016, Georgia, United States - From 1 February to 4 March 2016, CIFAL Atlanta, in partnership with Kennesaw State University (KSU), welcomed 21 young leaders from Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam as part of the U.S. State Department’s Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI). Their four-week academic residency was spent on the KSU campus, where the participants developed a deeper understanding of human and…
Dr. Jane Goodall, the keynote speaker of the 4th edition of the Geneva Lecture Series that took place on 26 May at the Palais des Nations, urged the current generation to stop borrowing from the future generations and to change its ways before it is too late. Pointing to the sometimes pessimistic attitudes among youth, Dr. Goodall explained, “When I think about how we have harmed the planet since I was their age, I feel this desperation and shame. We have compromised their future. But it’s not true that there’s nothing that can be done about it”.
Jane Goodall commonly…
Women’s Leadership Workshop in Geneva, Open to All Women from Public and Private Sector
17 September 2015, Geneva - UNITAR’s Women’s Leadership Programme announces its third Leadership workshop to take place on 22- 23 October 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland. The upcoming workshop is the first in the series that is open to all women from public and private sector.
Working to increase the gender balance in decision making fora is one of the primary objectives of the new SDG 5 of the 2030 development agenda for sustainable development. Noting the significant lack of women…
Partnering to Raise Awareness and Build Climate Change Resilience in Rio De Janeiro
26 March 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - The ZCO2 and UN CC:Learn project provided the space for an exchange of ideas aiming to align interests to transform the challenges that climate change presents to urban communities into opportunities. The 5 hour workshop started with the community leaders explaining to the 50 attendees what they had learned over the last two weeks as all leaders had obtained a certificate of completion on Introductory e-Course on Climate Change available on the UN CC…
Kossiwa J. Tossoukpe is the founder of KESecurix - Diversity in Security, and a former police officer in Zurich, Switzerland. At age 21, she was the youngest in her police academy class, and the first Black woman to join the force. Kossiwa studied at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, where she obtained a Master's degree in International Relations and Global Security. She was also a Trainee at UNITAR's Division for Peace, supporting the pre-deployment training team. Kossiwa's consultancy firm focuses on enhanc...