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The Online Diploma in Multilateral Diplomacy offers a unique opportunity for both students wanting to pursue a career in international relations, international and regional organizations staff, as well as governmental and non-governmental officers, to expand their knowledge on international affairs and strengthen their capacities in the field of multilateral diplomacy. The possible course contents cover the following topics from which the participants can choose 4 topic areas within the online diploma:
The Art of Speechwriting (14 February - 6 March 2022)
Diplomacy 4.0...
1 July 2021, Geneva, Switzerland – UNITAR jointly with the International Training Centre for Authorities and Leaders in York (CIFAL York, Canada), the International Social Marketing Association and AB InBev hosted a dialogue with 83 experts, officials, and representatives from the public and private sectors about lessons learned and challenges regarding COVID-19 vaccine deployment, as well as to present a new tool developed by UNITAR that offers practical examples of actions companies can make to contribute to help reduce the impact of this virus on the population by workin...
7 July 2021, Hiroshima, Japan - On 5 July 2021, UNITAR's Division for Prosperity launched a training programme for Iraqi youth entrepreneurs and is seeking applications from enthusiastic and motivated candidates. The “COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme: Mobilising Resilient Entrepreneurs to Address Food Insecurity, Public Health, and Unemployment – For Youth in Iraq” is part of UNITAR’s commitment to aid Iraq’s recovery from COVID-19. One hundred and fifty young entrepreneurs and innovators will learn how to create new businesses or scale existing busin...
To these fundamental questions, inter alia, representatives of governments, UN agencies, international organizations and representatives of civil society tried to explore answers in Puerto Vallarta Mexico (November 8-11) where under the banner “Partnerships for Migration and Human Development: Shared Prosperity - Shared Responsibility” the Fourth Meeting of the Global Forum on Migration and Development was held.
The latest research findings demonstrate that forty per cent of international migration originates among bordering countries or those countries closely…
8 August 2011, Geneva, Switzerland - Researchers at CERN have begun today public testing of a new version of the popular volunteer computing project LHC@home. This version allows volunteers to participate for the first time in simulating high-energy collisions of protons in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), thus actively help physicists in the search for new fundamental particles. This is one example of a series of projects and events organized by the Citizen Cyberscience Centre, a partnership between CERN, UNITAR/UNOSAT and the University of Geneva, to promote volunteer…
Three months into its chairmanship of the Global Migration Group (GMG), UNITAR has already made significant progress in implementing the one-year work plan adopted by the GMG in June 2009. Working hand-in-hand with UNDP, the prospective GMG chair during the first half of 2010, UNITAR has set out to galvanize the Group around three strategic priorities:
(1) To instill a strong sense of purpose and develop a coherent voice for the GMG on current migration policy and governance challenges, most urgently the global recession and its impact on migration;
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2 April, Geneva, Switzerland - Professor Anne Glover holds an important position at the European Commission: she is the first Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the Commission. Her office was established in 2011 by Mr Barroso with the mandate to provide analysis and independent expert opinions, advise on novel science, technology and innovation issues arising both in the context of the EU and internationally, and to communicate the scientific values of the European Union and its member states.
Ms Glover, who is a biologist by training and had served as top…
18 July 2012 - UNOSAT and UrtheCast have teamed up to apply the world's first ever high definition, streaming video platform of planet Earth to support humanitarian emergencies, environmental monitoring and capacity development to the benefit of vulnerable communities worldwide.
The live video feed cameras will be mounted on the International Space Station later this year while UNOSAT is already working with partner UrtheCast, who fathered the idea, to ensure high definition video – below 1 m resolution – is acquired and utilised in crisis situations for the…
15 February 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - As the attention of the international community turns once again to the importance of building resilience through capacity development, UNOSAT and IGAD have launched into a project to do just that, with a practical focus on the use of geospatial technologies to improve disaster reduction in East Africa.
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is an eight-country regional development organization in East Africa with headquarters in Djibouti. It is a key player in the domains of drought, emergency response, and disaster…
The First Conference of Parties (COP) to the Minamata Convention
24 to 29 September 2017, Geneva, Switzerland - with over 1,000 participants from around the world. Named after the case of industrial pollution in Minamata, Japan, where the continued release of mercury in industrial wastewater caused over 2000 deaths, the Minamata Convention is a global treaty established to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of mercury. The Minamata Convention entered into force on 16 August 2017, with 83 Parties ratifying the Convention (as of 25…