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Agnes Chiu is a 15-year-old high school student in Hong Kong.She participated in the 2023 UNITAR Youth Ambassador Asia Pacific Programme, which aims to empower high school students in Asian-Pacific countries to lead change.She founded “Design Your Life at 25” to guide teenagers in career planning. To date, the programme has trained 300 young people from 14 countries through engaging career-visioning workshops.Agnes is piloting an AI-driven app to make her initiative more attractive to youth and accessible in multiple languages, starting with Egypt and expanding to other cou...
Women and youth in Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe are invited to apply for the UNITAR programme Developing Green Livelihoods for Women and Youth in Africa: Strengthening Food Security, Supporting Climate-Resilient Economies.
The training programme aims to build the participants’ entrepreneurial and digital skills so they can develop climate-resilient businesses and create inclusive, environmentally responsible and viable employment and livelihood opportunities that contribute to climate mitigation.
The programme will run from September 2023 to February 2024 and have onli...
From 20 to 28 May 2024, BADEA and UNITAR hosted over 200 entrepreneurs from Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe training programmes focused on climate-resilient livelihood development.Participants received expert training, pitch practice, UNITAR alumni guidance, and business development resources to develop or scale their agricultural business models.The programme aims to improve climate resilience, local livelihood development and community welfare, while contributing to national strategic development plans., 20 June 2024, Geneva, Switzerland – From 20 to 28 May 2024, BADEA...
As a child growing up in Namibia in the late 80s and early 90s, my earliest memory always has the sound of the radio in the background. That would be whether I was at home in town or while helping out in the fields while visiting the village. I vividly remember listening to Christmas carols or the liberation songs to commemorate the Namibian liberation struggle against apartheid on Independence / Heroes days. Radio has been a big part of my childhood, it was a source of information and entertainment. Through this mode of communication, we learned of far-off relatives eithe...
A New York Times article dated 20 August 2010 uses analysis released by UNOSAT, UNITAR Operational Satellite Applications Programme. The article, focused on the worsening situation in flood affected Pakistan, reports “Millions have been left homeless by flooding that extends across Pakistan. An analysis by UNITAR/UNOSAT, an Agency of the United Nations, of satellite images taken since the beginning of August shows thousands of square miles of water-covered land along the Indus River”.
On the same day The New York Times featured also a map based on UNOSAT data, both in the…
Strengthening Peacemaking Capacities Among Key Actors in Africa
“The practice of negotiation revealed the importance of sitting and discussing differences with opponents. Interest-based approaches to dispute settlement appeared most useful, as parties are able to get solutions once they can express their interests.” - comment from an official participating in the 2013 UNITAR Regional Training Programme
10 December, 2013. The UNITAR Regional Training Programme to Enhance Conflict Prevention and Peacemaking in Africa, the 12th continental programme organized to date,…
12 September 2011 – UNITAR has initiated training workshops for Capacity Building on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) in four ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand) and the People’s Republic of China. The training is part of the project “Strengthening National and Regional Capacities to Implement the GHS in ASEAN – Phase II”, funded by the European Union.
The training sessions are being conducted as follows:
12-16 September 2011, Manila – Philippines
19-24 September 2011, Bangkok – Thailand
26-30…
"Physics at CERN brings Nations together"
Jonathan Richard Ellis is a British theoretical physicist. He attended Cambridge University, earning his Ph.D. in 1971. His research interests focus on particle physics, though he has also made important contributions to astrophysics, cosmology and quantum gravity. After brief post-doc positions at SLAC and Caltech, he went to CERN and has held a permanent contract there since 1978. He was awarded the Maxwell Medal and the Paul Dirac Prize by the Institute of Physics in 1982 and 2005 respectively, was elected a Fellow of the Royal…
Creativity for Development - New Free Open Access Course Available
Geneva, 26 September 2016. We are pleased to announce that the new “Creativity for Development” (Crea4Dev) course is now available. Crea4Dev is an initiative of UNITAR and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
In most countries, there is an abundance of creative talents, but the development potential of creative industries remains under-utilized. Crea4Dev was developed to raise awareness on the value of creativity and culture as pillars of sustainable development.
The…
26 May 2025, Geneva, Switzerland – In observance of the International Day for Biological Diversity, the UNITAR Global Water Academy, in collaboration with CIFAL Surrey and RECLAIM Network Plus (EP/W034034/1), hosted a virtual side event, ‘Streams of Change: Exploring the Intersection of Water, Agriculture, and Biodiversity’. The event brought together leading experts in climate resilience, hydrology, sanitation, and water governance to explore the intersections between urban infrastructure, sustainable agriculture, and biodiversity protection.Framed around three core themes...