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2024年8月26日、広島、日本― 国連軍縮部（UNODA）が主導する「ユース非核リーダー基金（YLF: Youth Leader Fund for a World without Nuclear Weapons ）」事業に参加する海外の若者を対象としたスタディツアーが開始しました。スタディツアー参加者は一週間の日程で、被爆地である広島・長崎を訪れ、若者主導のユース国際会議を開催します。 YLF事業は、日本政府の支援の下、国連軍縮部（UNODA）により実施されており、非核兵器国と核兵器保有国の双方から多様な分野にかかわる若者―未来のリーダーが交流し、能力を養い、彼ら・彼女らの声を核軍縮プロセスに反映させることを目指しています。 この日本スタディツアーは、国連訓練調査研究所（ユニタール）広島事務所の支援を受けて、実施されています。世界の若者をヒロシマ・ナガサキの地に招き、核兵器使用の脅威と実相を学ぶ場を提供すると同時に、ヒロシマ・ナガサキの教訓を世界に発信することを目的としています。開会式では、岸田首相がビデオメッセージにより、スタディツアー参加者を歓迎しました。 YLF事業の第一期の研修は、2023年12月に開始され、100人の若者が核軍縮に関する知識とリーダーシップ技能の習得を目的としたオンライン研修に参加しま...
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※リンク先が英文となっている場合があります。ご了承ください。, 2022年8月6日、広島への原爆投下から77年を機に、アントニオ・グテーレス国連事務総長が広島を訪れました。核軍縮を進め、平和で持続可能な世界を実現する一歩になるよう、若者の活動家たちと非公式な意見交換に臨みました（国連軍縮部、国連広報センター、国連ユニタール、広島県/へいわ創造機構ひろしま(HOPe)共催）。事務総長は、人類を救い、将来の世代を守るためには、軍縮が重要であると強調。様々な手段を活用して行動を起こすことを呼び掛けました。
事務総長と若手活動家の討論は、英語と日本語でご覧いただけます。
もっと読む, ユニタールとアフリカ経済開発アラブ銀行 (BADEA)は、ザンビア、ジンバブエ、タンザニアでCOVID-19のパンデミック...
30 November 2023, Geneva, Switzerland - The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) successfully hosted the third edition of World Negotiation Day at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Co-hosted by the ADN Group and generously sponsored by the State of Qatar, this year's event marked a significant milestone in the current global landscape, emphasizing the critical role of multilateral diplomacy and the skillful use of mediation in solving conflicts and fostering a culture of peace
We are currently living in very turbulent times with multiple and overlapp...
Name: W.A. Kumudu Sanjeewa
Title: Head of Communications and Information Management (CIMU), United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: South Sudan
Partnership: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
South Sudan is ranked among the five countries in the world most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In the past years, the country has seen wet seasons becoming wetter, and dry seasons getting even drier. As a result, devastating floods are mercilessly hitting its population with increasingly destructive pow...
11 October 2023, Dublin, Ireland - Delegates from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and TU Dublin met in Dublin this week to establish a strategic partnership that will undertake a varied programme of activity in learning, teaching, and research related to Sustainable Development, making TU Dublin the Irish University to partner with the UN Institute for Training and Research on a Sustainability Education programme. The programme, Global Sustainability Leadership, harnesses Ireland’s leadership in peacebuilding and entrepreneurial thinking...
Sayf Al Ashqar, UNITAR Entrepreneurship Training Programme alum, is the Secretary General of the Libraries (Director of the Central Library) at the University of Mosul.
In 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attacked and took control of Mosul which led to the destruction of Central Library.
In 2017, Sayf and his colleagues began the reconstruction and rebuilding of the Central Library.
The UNITAR entrepreneurship training programme helped him hone his communication and leadership skills.
, July 2022, Hiroshima, Japan ...
UNITAR’s Road Safety Global Training Initiative successfully launched the Learning App on Management Practices for Safer Roads, with the aim of providing in-hand practical solutions, participatory contributions from different stakeholders including the private sector, and results-based interventions.
The Learning App is based on the Management Practices for Safer Roads Toolkit, featuring projects and local interventions in cities in Brazil, China, Dominican Republic, India, Mexico and South Africa. This Toolkit, available now on mobile de...
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...
E-Learning Course: 12 October – 22 November 2020
Field Visit to Geneva: 23 - 27 November 2020, Humankind is indisputably entering a new digital era. The impact of rapid technological and scientific advances on our lives is so great that World Economic Forum’s founder Klaus Schwab termed this process as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We are the witnesses of the transcendence through new frontiers.
These new frontiers go beyond traditional understanding of every aspect of human activity. Unlike in the past, diplomacy and international affa...
24 February 2021, Hiroshima, Japan - UNITAR Hiroshima and the UNITAR Association will co-host “The Japanese perspective on gender”, the ninth in its public discussion series, Ideas That Matter. The inclusion of women’s experiences, perspectives and services is crucial for effective decision-making, policy development, and legislation that serves all people. It is a pillar of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 on Gender Equality: “ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic a...