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9 June 2016, Bangkok, Thailand – 18 Afghan government officials from the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Civil Service Commission, and the Office of the President of Afghanistan, completed the final module of the Executive Master Degree programme in Development Policies and Practices (DPP) and received their degrees at a graduation ceremony at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok. Mr. Alex Mejia, senior manager of UNITAR’s Decentralized Cooperation Programme, extended UNITAR’s congratulations to the graduates and emphasized the impact of…
UNITAR Hiroshima Launches “Faces of the Fellowship” Photo Exhibition
6 November 2014, Hiroshima, Japan – The UNITAR Hiroshima Office, together with the Hiroshima Prefectural Government, recently launched the inaugural “Faces of the Fellowship” Photo Exhibition. The Exhibition celebrates twelve years of the UNITAR Hiroshima Offices’ successful “Fellowship for Afghanistan”, an annual seven-month long programme, which builds the capacity, and enhances the leadership, management and professional skills of a core group of senior government officials, academics and…
UNITAR Invites the International Court of Justice to Geneva
A briefing for the Geneva diplomatic community about the ICJ’s contribution to international peace and justice
November 2014, Geneva, Switzerland - It is the world’s only universal court with general jurisdiction: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has contributed to the peaceful settlement of legal inter-state disputes and the evolution of international law since 1945. In light of the crucial role the ICJ plays for the entire United Nations system, UNITAR invited Mr. Philippe Couvreur,…
Presentation of CIFAL Malaga and its Executive Board
27 July 2018, Malaga, Spain - Mr. Alex Mejia, Director of the Division for People and Social Inclusion of UNITAR alongside Mr. Francisco de la Torre, Mayor of Malaga, oversaw the creation of the Board of CIFAL (Centro Internacional de Formación para Autoridades y Líderes) Malaga. During this public event hosted in Malaga, the City Council signed three Memorandum of Understandings (MOU) with Unicaja Bank, the University of Malaga, and the Confederation of Andalusia Businessmen, each represented by their…
UNITAR's CIFAL Jeju hosts Localizing Disaster Risk Management and Resilience training with CADRI
From September 7 - 9, UNITAR's Asia-Pacfic centre for training local authorities, CIFAL Jeju, convened over ten country delegations in Jeju Self-Governing Province for a city-to-city workshop on sharing knowledge and skills for more resilient and integrated disaster risk management among the region's municipalities. The workshop was part of CIFAL Jeju's learning series on building local government capacities on priority Human Security issues in the Asia-Pacific Region…
3 December 2020, New York, United States (Virtual) – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), along with the Columbia Law School, hosted the “amplification strategies for diplomatic leadership” workshop on Thursday, 3 December 2020. The workshop was the third endowment of the training series presented by the two entities, and 233 participants joined the session virtually from different parts of the world and was supported with funding allocated from the Swedish International Development Agency’s (SIDA) contribution to the UNITAR Strategic Framew...
9 March 2020, Kampala - UNITAR-UNOSAT and the UN Technology Bank, in partnership with the Ugandan Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) have conducted a one-week training course from 2 to 6 March 2020 in Kampala on the use of Geospatial Information Technologies (GIT) to reduce the impact of disaster situations. Indeed, the increasing number and intensity of disasters in the past few years in Uganda have had severe consequences in terms of human lives, structural damage and economic losses. Uganda is regularly affected by multiple natural hazards, including ...
22 January 2019, Geneva, Switzerland – University students from China visited the European Headquarter of the United Nations, known as the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, to participate in a seminar on the Role of Youth in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals. During the workshop, co-organized by UNITAR and Association des Étudiant-e-s Sinophones de l'Université de Genève (AESG) and held at the Palais des Nations, the students were introduced to the SDGs and their importance. The purpose of the session was to encourage and inspire these young individ...
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The Hague Academy of International Law is a centre for research and teaching in public and private international law with the aim of further scientific and advanced studies of the legal aspects of international relations.This mission, which its founders attributed to it in line with the "peace through law" movement, has remained entirely relevant to the present day. In fulfilling its mission, the Academy has succeeded in both…
29 - 30 November 2012, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – A National Forum on Governance and Priority Setting for SAICM Implementation was held in the Dominican Republic from 29 to 30 November 2012. The workshop was held under the framework of a national project for the implementation of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM), and consisted of a review of the progress made to date, establishing priorities for national chemicals management, and preparing action plans for selected priorities.
The workshop was attended by nearly 50…