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August Edition: Field Visit; 4 August - 8 August 2025, During the upcoming year, UNITAR is delighted to deliver the first edition of our 5-day field visit to New York– the main headquarters of the United Nations. We will offer participants the chance to fully immerse themselves into the host city of these key UN agencies and thereby gain first-hand experience of the United Nations. UNITAR will host most of the activities on the premises of the UN Offices in New York. They will consist of a nuanced balance between the follo...
The 2009 United Nations International Law Fellowship Programme was successfully completed on 14 August 2009.
The 2009 Fellowship Programme, which was conducted in English, took place on the premises of the Peace Palace in The Hague in the Netherlands, city of peace and justice, for a period of 6 weeks, from 6 July to 14 August 2009.
The United Nations International Law Fellowship Programme was launched under the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the teaching, study, dissemination and wider appreciation of international law, established by General…
The UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. By doing so, business, as a primary agent driving globalization, can help ensure that markets, commerce, technology and finance advance in ways that benefit economies and societies everywhere.
In this spirit, the partnership between Veolia Environnement and the Local Development Programme of UNITAR started in 2002 at the…
UNITAR Contributes to Habitat III Discussions on Urban Planning and Disaster Risk Reduction
July 27, 2016, Quito, Ecuador - UNITAR’s Decentralized Cooperation Programme in collaboration with the Government of Ecuador hosted the third series of webinars aimed to raise awareness of key topics related to the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III). The webinar titled “Urban Planning and Disaster Risk Management” took place Wednesday, July 27 with three experts from UNISDR Office for Northeast Asia, the University of…
Although these have been difficult times for the city, the UNITAR New York Office has been able to successfully transition all our meetings, trainings, and conferences to a virtual format. In fact, thanks to the added capacity of webinars and livestreams, recent events and trainings have been able to reach a wider and more diverse audience than ever before.
During the pandemic, UNITAR NY Office has developed 11 capacity building events and impacted 4,700 participants (including the SDG Learning Center in July). Thank you to the team and Ambassador’s vision, UNITAR NY Offic...
Born in Austria thirty-five years ago, Sabine Samarawickrema has devoted a huge part of her life to questions tied to sustainable consumption. During her Ph.D., which was completed in Vienna in 2011, she travelled to a lot of different places, working among others for the United Nations in New York. Having met her future husband in New York, she moved to Sri Lanka in 2011 and started working with various NGO's and the UN, active in the field of sustainable development, child protection or education.
But this enthusiastic young woman had to have her own way: one year later…
In 2016, a series of four comic books was completed: after “Nosotros” I & II (Us), “Soñando el Futuro” (Dreaming the Future) and “De Regreso a la Vida” (Back to Life) were published. Called “Pintando el Futuro”, this project was implemented by UNITAR in partnership with the Foundation Ciudad Don Bosco in Medellín and with the support of the Institute of the German Foreign Office. The project that started in 2014 aimed to both contribute to the peace building process in Colombia and help youth victims of armed conflict to restore their individual, familial, and social…
Focusing on Urban Wastewater Management in Central and Eastern European Countries, CIFAL Plock hosted its final training of 2010 from November 30-December 2, CIFAL Plock in Poland. The training was paired with a one day conference on November 30th that explored current trends in regional Urban Wastewater Management and the areas of Implementation of European Union Directives and Projects, and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) to develop and scale-up wastewater management across the region’s municipalities.
From 1 to 2 December 2010, over thirty participants from national…
15 May 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - In its latest humanitarian bulletin on Syria, OCHA warns that “the humanitarian situation in Syria is catastrophic” and calls the relief needs of populations affected “immense.” Fierce fighting across large parts of the country has led to massive displacement of civilians and mounting refugee outflows. Valerie Amos, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, told the UN Security Council that the situation in the country is a "humanitarian catastrophe, with ordianry people paying the price of the failure to end the conflict." Over 70,000…
16 November 2011, Bangkok, Thailand
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was concerned over the impact of the recent floods in Thailand after flying by helicopter over Bangkok. “I am deeply saddened and humbled by what I have seen by helicopter while travelling over these affected areas,” he told reporters in the Thai capital, according to the UN News Centre.
The night before Mr. Ban’s arrival, UNOSAT had been contacted by the OCHA Regional Office with an urgent request for a geospatial overview of the floods for the Office of the UN Resident…