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UNITAR Executive Director Nikhil Seth visited Hiroshima and Tokyo, Japan from 25 March to 28 March 2024.
The four-day visit to Japan includes his participation in the Peace Walk Festival, the signing ceremony of the eighth Special Grant Agreement with the Hiroshima Prefectural Government, the opening ceremony of the new Hiroshima Office, and courtesy visits to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, local government offices, stakeholders from the public and private sector in Japan, and meetings with UNITAR supporting members.
, 19 April 2024, Hiroshima, Japan – The Uni...
30 September 2022, New York, USA – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) New York Office launched the Fall Global Diplomacy Initiative (GDI) Programme. This programme provides students with practical knowledge and experience of global diplomacy, current global issues and challenges as well as all things United Nations., Mr Marco A. Suazo, Head of the UNITAR Office in New York, welcomed the participants and gave a brief about the program objectives focusing on understanding what the United Nations does and its international Agenda. He introduced the...
For the fourth consecutive year, the Climate Classroom provided an opportunity to COP participants to get up to speed on key climate change topics through 45-minute learning sessions.
The classes provide highlights in key climate change areas for busy delegates to be better prepared when joining discussions and events at COP25 of the UNFCCC, held in Madrid, Spain in December 2019, and beyond.
On this occasion, classes popped-up in various locations across COP25 to reach out to a varied audience. The space was visible to a broad public, using a completely mobile ...
Mohammed Albadri is a graduate of biomedical engineering from South Iraq who is passionate about addressing food insecurity.Agriculture in Iraq suffers from drought and water scarcity.Mohammed is developing his idea to use hydrogels to conserve water in agriculture, aiming to reduce water usage while maintaining agricultural output.He joined the 2024 UNITAR “Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Promoting Food Security and Economic Development in Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon” programme.Mohammed found the UNITAR programme to be an emotional and inspiring experience, providing him wit...
2 July 2020 - A record 53.6 million metric tonnes (Mt) of electronic waste was generated worldwide in 2019, up 21 per cent in just five years, according to the UN’s Global E-waste Monitor 2020, released today.
The new report also predicts global e-waste - discarded products with a battery or plug - will reach 74 Mt by 2030, almost a doubling of e-waste in just 16 years. This makes e-waste the world’s fastest-growing domestic waste stream, fueled mainly by higher consumption rates of electric and electronic equipment, short life cycles, and few options for repair.
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Born in 1961, Ziad Obeidat has lived most of his life in Jordan, where he now holds the position of Director of Development Plans & Programs at the Ministry of Planning & International Cooperation. He first began working for the government of Jordan in 1993, less than four years after the country’s first free elections. Since that time, his political career has continued to rise, while his country has gone through many changes.
In the first ten years of the new millennium Jordan's economy grew steadily, but the country was later faced with a number of challenges…
CIFAL Jeju Conducts Workshop on Cultural Tourism for Sustainable Development
12- 15 September 2017, Jeju, Republic of Korea – The International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in Jeju (CIFAL Jeju) in collaboration with United Cities and Local Governments Asia-Pacific (UCLG ASPAC), the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province and the Jeju Tourism Organization convened the international workshop “Cultural Tourism for Sustainable Development in the Asia-Pacific region”, in Jeju Island on 12 - 15 September. This workshop brought together 26 officials from…
Season’s greetings to all! 2022 was an opportunity for us to embrace and adapt to the “new normal.” We remain steadfast in our commitment to our valuable learners, staff, resource persons and stakeholders and to disseminating the message of peace and prosperity.
2023 is a special year for us and we would like you to be part of it! UNITAR will celebrate its 60th anniversary and the UNITAR Hiroshima Office its 20th. It is a time to reflect on our collective efforts to achieve the SDGs through building capacities and delivering training. We look forward to sharing this milest...
From Theory to Action: Indonesian Students Learn to Address Climate Change
25 April 2017, Indonesia - Through the Youth Leadership Camp for Climate Change 2017, 150 students between the age of 17 and 25 years old built their knowledge and capacity to take action on climate change. This initiative – promoted by UN CC:Learn and UNESCO Office, Jakarta, in collaboration with the Climate Reality Project Indonesia and Youth for Climate Change Indonesia, with support from the Office of the President of Indonesia’s Special Envoy for Climate Change – contributes to the…
From the 22nd to the 27th November 2010, UNITAR PTP, jointly with the South African Development Community (SADC), organised a Protection of Civilians Training of Trainers course at the South African Development Community Regional Peacekeeping Training Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe.
In his preface to Jean Marie Guehenno’s recent paper on Enhancing the Capacity of African Peacekeeping Training Institutions, Lakhdar Brahimi, highlights the pressing need for UN peacekeepers to be fully well-trained. Since then, the UN has been undertaken many more challenging missions, especially…