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15 May 2020, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR and Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND) launched its first joint online course on Fundamentals of Microfinance as part of a series of online courses aimed at supporting financial inclusion initiatives across the Middle East and Africa. Thanks to the financial support of AGFUND, these training courses are made freely available to the participants.
This joint initiative with AGFUND recognizes financial inclusion as an enabler of sustainable development goals including eradicating poverty; achieving gender equality and ec...
28 February 2019, New York, United States – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York Office hosted a workshop with the Maryland-based organization Trees for the Future on the topics of establishing forest gardens, building tree nurseries and designing perma-gardens. This was the first workshop of a three-part series on Using Agroforestry to Meet Sustainable Development Goals.
After UNITAR’s welcoming remarks from Mr. Marco Suazo, the session began with introductions from the Trees for the Future organization and the audience. Through t...
23 June 2025, New York, USA - Just steps from the United Nations Headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, UNITAR’s “Safe Driving is Cool” mural stands at the corner of Tunnel Exit Street and E 39th Street. This 5,200 square feet public artwork is a reminder that road safety is a shared responsibility, in line with UN Sustainable Development Goal 3.6, which aims to halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents by 2030. Art has long been a powerful medium to spark social transformation. This mural demonstrates how street art can contribute to buil...
2 September 2025, Locarno, Switzerland – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) co-hosted Diplomacy Day at the 78th Locarno Film Festival together with the Wyss Academy for Nature and the City of Locarno, marking the centenary of the Locarno Treaties.The event convened around 200 leaders from government, international organizations, civil society, and the arts to reflect on the intersection between peace, people, and planet, and to explore how cinema can serve as a catalyst for mutual understanding and sustainable peace. , UN Assistant Secretar...
For the Division for People and Social Inclusion, multilingualism is key for the expansive outreach of our activities and events. Mr. Alex Mejia, Director of UNITAR’s People’s Division and Social Inclusion explains, “it is fundamental to embrace multilingualism for two main reasons. One because we are the United Nations, we are supposed to be multilingual, and two, we cannot teach other people to embrace multilingualism if we do not embrace it ourselves.” , The Division for People and Social Inclusion has continuously ensured multilingualism remains at the core o...
Aspiring young entrepreneurs and agribusiness innovators in Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon are invited to apply to the UNITAR RISE LAB Igniting Youth Potential in Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon through Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Resilience programme.The programme will prepare young entrepreneurs, aged 18-40, to transform their ideas for enhancing food security into viable businesses or to scale existing ventures.The programme will run from May 2025 to March 2026, with two online phases and a final in-person phase.It is supported by the Government and people of Japan and ...
UNITAR opened a call for applications to the 2025 UNITAR Hiroshima Youth Ambassador Programme – Leaders of a New Generation.The programme is for students attending high schools in Hiroshima Prefecture.It will be held in Hiroshima from 29 June to 24 August 2025, aiming to deepen the students’ understanding of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation and peacebuilding, and to cultivate young leaders who will convey messages of peace from Hiroshima to the world.The programme is offered free of charge and will be held in cooperation with the UNITAR Association, with the suppor...
2025年8月3日（日）、大阪 - ミシェル・ジャイルズ＝マクドノー国連事務次長補兼国連訓練調査研究所（ユニタール）総代表は、8月3日に関西・大阪万博を視察、国連パビリオンにて開催されたイベントに登壇しました。ジャイルズ＝マクドノー総代表の来日は、今年2月に同ポストに正式に就任後初となります。8月5日から6日には、原爆投下から80年を迎える広島を訪れ、広島平和記念式典に参列する予定です。, ジャイルズ＝マクドノー総代表は、8月3日、関西・大阪万博を訪れました。同日に、他の国連機関との共同で出展をしている国連パビリオンにて、国連食糧農業機関（FAO）、国際労働機関（ILO）、国連環境計画（UNEP）、国連ボランティア計画（UNV）、国連事務局との共催で開催された「国連キャリアデー」イベントにて基調講演を行い、国境を超えて共通の課題に取り組む国連機関の意義や、専門性を磨き続けることの重要性を強調し、国連機関でのキャリアを目指す人々の挑戦を力強く後押ししました。午後には、ジャイルズ＝マクドノー総代表の司会進行のもと、国連ユニタール主催のイベント 「シニア世代の力を未来へ：日本に学ぶ『一生涯輝ける社会』の実現に向けて」を同会場内にて実施しました。同イベントは、今日の高齢化社会において重要なテーマであるウェルビーイングと高齢世代の社...
1-4 March 2021, New York, USA (Virtual) - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York Office, in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, successfully implemented its four-day seminar series entitled “Gender Equality in the International Rights Framework: Building Back Better” from 1-4 March 2021. Over 150 participants joined the session virtually from all over the world during the duration of the series. This series was developed to coincide with the beginning of Women’s History Month and discussed various concerns rela...
Youth Climate Dialogues (YCDs) Go Beyond Swiss Borders
9 November 2016, Geneva, Switzerland - Following is one of the many personal experiences one student from Lycee International de Ferney-Voltaire shared during the last Youth Climate Dialogue (YCD).
“As a kid, every autumn I used to visit my grandmother and we would collect many apples from her apple tree. For days I would eat apples for breakfast, lunch and dinner. She always used to say, ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’. It’s been 5 years since the last apple was seen on that tree.”
On the 19th…