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11 August 2010
August 6th marked an historic occasion for UNITAR's Hiroshima Office as H. E. Ban Ki-moon became the first United Nations Secretary-General to visit the historic city. He delivered a speech during the memorial ceremony of the 65th Anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and also presented a floral offering at the cenotaph commemorating it's victims.
9 August 2010
On the occasion of his recent visit to China, UNITAR Executive Director and UN Assistant Secretary-General Carlos Lopes gave the keynote speech opening a model UN conference in Tianjin, China.
9 August 2010
In late June, on the occasion of the UNITAR Board of Trustees meeting in Beijing, UNITAR Executive Director Carlos Lopes and UNITAR staff undertook a series of key meetings with a wide variety of senior officials in the Chinese government and academia. The meetings were aimed at strengthening the already close cooperation between UNITAR and China.
9 August 2010
As the situation in Pakistan continues to be a main concern due to new rainfall, UNOSAT analysts have completed on Thursday this week a series of maps derived from satellite imagery and aimed at identifying flood extent and impact on the affected populations in the Republic of Moldova.
6 August 2010
On 12 July 2010 UNITAR signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) located in Gujarat, India.
UNITAR’s partnerships strategy aims at developing agreements with Academic institutions such as Universities and Research Centres around the world.
5 August 2010
UNITAR has initiated a process to assess some of its training courses in order to identify modalities to obtain credit recognition or validation within the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).  In this sense, the Institute has signed a framework agreement with the University Fernando Pessoa  (UFP) through which
4 August 2010
Heavy rains in the past week have triggered both flash floods and river floods in several parts of the country resulting in serious loss of life and widespread displacement of populations, In some provinces these floods are the worst since the early 20th century.
4 August 2010
Participants included lawyers, government officials, community development workers, human rights and peace advocates, and women and youth representatives from Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Pacific and Russia. They gathered together to exchange lessons, experiences and strategies and to deepen skills in conflict analysis and negotiation.
3 August 2010
The Multilateral Diplomacy Programme is pleased to announce the following Core Diplomatic Training (CDT) activities in Geneva for the fall of 2010:
3 August 2010
The Multilateral Diplomacy Programme will be offering a new set of e-Learning courses in the fall of 2010, including: Multilateral Conferences and Diplomacy; Bilateral and Multilateral Negotiation; United Nations Protocol; Chairing Meetings and International Conferences, Mediation Skills and much more!
Please see the list of e-Learning courses for more information.