- [PRESSWIRE] Hiroshima, Japan – 3 March 2023 — Eighteen participants from nine countries will participate in the second phase of UNITAR Hiroshima Women’s Leadership in Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction Training Programme for World Tsunami Awareness Day. The training will be held in person in Samoa from 7 – 11 March 2023. This is the first time UNITAR Division for Prosperity will hold workshops in Samoa and is also the first time in two years that the DRR Programme will have in-person learning.
- [PRESSWIRE] 17 February 2023, Hiroshima, Japan – UNITAR Division for Prosperity will hold the first in-person workshop in Japan for Great Ideas Space: Entrepreneurship for Public Health and COVID-19 Recovery in Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon. The programme trains entrepreneurs and founders of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) so they have greater knowledge, skills and networks to develop and run business projects that address challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic and contribute to building a resilient health sector in their communities.
- [PRESSWIRE] Hiroshima, Japan – 9 February, 2023 — UNITAR Division for Prosperity/Hiroshima Office will resume its in-person Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (NDNP) Training Programme in Hiroshima, Japan. The UNITAR programme gives diplomats detailed insights about the protocols and procedures of disarmament and non-proliferation conferences – such as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Review Conference and meetings on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – and builds their communication and negotiation skills.
- [PRESSWIRE] Hiroshima, Japan – 9 February, 2023 — UNITAR Division for Prosperity/Hiroshima Office will resume its in-person Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (NDNP) Training Programme in Hiroshima, Japan. The UNITAR programme gives diplomats detailed insights about the protocols and procedures of disarmament and non-proliferation conferences – such as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Review Conference and meetings on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – and builds their communication and negotiation skills.
- [PRESSWIRE] Djibouti, Djibouti – 21 November, 2022 — Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Secretariat, in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), and with the financial support from the Government of Canada, is rolling out the Online Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Training Programme for Women and Girls in the IGAD region.
- [PRESSWIRE] Djibouti, Djibouti – 21 November, 2022 — Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Secretariat, in partnership with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), and with the financial support from the Government of Canada, is rolling out the Online Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Training Programme for Women and Girls in the IGAD region.
- [PRESSWIRE] Hiroshima, Japan – 5 August 2022 — 6 August 2022 marks 77 years since an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. To commemorate the day, youth from across Japan will have a heart-to-heart talk with António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, about their ideas and solutions for achieving a peaceful, more secure and sustainable world – one without nuclear weapons. The informal, in-person gathering will be held in Hiroshima in parallel with the annual Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony. The session will be livestreamed in English and Japanese via YouTube.
- [PRESSWIRE] Australia – 12 May, 2022 — A new metals production plant opened in Korea today will play a key role in securing the global supply chain for critical minerals and metals products.
- [PRESSWIRE] 1 April 2022 – Hiroshima, Japan — United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Division for Prosperity will launch the Gender Empowerment Now! Project in Jordan and Lebanon on 5 April 2022. Th e capacity-building project will equip government officials from Jordan and Lebanon with the knowledge and skills to effectively mainstream gender in their countries’ development policies and programmes.
- [PRESSWIRE] 29 March 2022, Hiroshima, Japan – United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Division for Prosperity and Columbia Business School Executive Education (New York, USA) will launch a new partnership on digital health and technologies. The two institutions have recently signed an agreement for cooperation including running a training course UNITAR Social Entrepreneurship with Digital Health in Africa and the Middle East that by the end of March. The collaboration seeks to spark innovation using Columbia Business School’s world-class knowledge.
- [PRESSWIRE] UNITED STATES – October 13, 2021 — International Charity Mary’s Meals Leads The Way In Reducing Child Hunger Through Innovative School Feeding Model.
- [PRESSWIRE] Reykjavik, Iceland – 26 March 2020 — The first Coronavirus Medical Express flight departs Shanghai at 23:30 GMT today airlifting urgently needed supplies to fight the coronavirus from China to Europe.
- [PRESSWIRE] Jersey, UK – 25 September, 2019 — The value of regulated funds serviced in Jersey rose by 7% to a new record high in the first half of 2019, according to the latest figures collated by the jurisdiction’s financial regulator the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC).
- [PRESSWIRE] SHENZHEN, CHINA – SEP 20, 2019 — Five-Star Tooling Limited Will attend the biggest exhibition MSV 2019 in the Czech Republic. This fair opening from October 7th to 11th, at Brno Exhibition Center.
- [PRESSWIRE] London, England – July 3nd, 2019 – Video Interview – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZNmFh2b9kI&t=1s
- [PRESSWIRE] London, United Kingdom – 07 February, 2019 — Thanks to solar power, Jamaica’s future is bright in Ira Poyser’s visionary debut novel, which imagines the Caribbean island as a powerhouse of economics, sport and global affairs.
- [PRESSWIRE] London, United Kingdom – 05 December, 2018 — Container traffic along the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) surged in the first 10 months of 2018, a minister has said.
- [PRESSWIRE] London, United Kingdom – 16 November, 2018 — Kazakhstan seeks to capitalize on growing interest from Asian investors as leading businesses descend on Singapore for investment event.
- [PRESSWIRE] New York, USA – 25 October, 2018 — Kazakh Invest, the national company for attracting inward investment into Kazakhstan, has led the charge to attract global investment to Central Asia’s largest economy.
- [PRESSWIRE] London, United Kingdom – 03/10/2018 — Kazakhstan is an “overlooked powerhouse” and one of the world’s next big investment destinations. This was the message delivered to the more than 200 business leaders who attended the Kazakhstan Global Investment Forum, which took place in London on 2nd October.
- [PRESSWIRE] South Africa – 28 June, 2018 — The Independent National Electoral Commission of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (CENI) has appointed Washington based lobby group, Avenue Strategies, to pressure the US Administration into accepting the use of electronic voting machines in the upcoming general elections. This is despite widespread condemnation from opposition parties.
- [PRESSWIRE] BEIJING, June 15, 2018 — As the 4th China-CEEC Investment and Trade Expo opened in Ningbo, east China’s Zhejiang Province on June 8, a variety of activities aiming at strengthening ties between China and the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) are being staged in the coastal city.
- [دبي – الإمارات العربية المتحدة، 12 مايو 2018] – فازت زينب محمد، المدير التنفيذي لإدارة العقارات والتسويق في وصل للعقارات بـِ “جائزة الإمارات للسيدات” للمرة الثانية، في دورتها الخامسة عشرة للعام الجاري 2018 التي انطلقت تحت شعار “الحكمة والخير والعطاء”.
- [PRESSWIRE] Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 14 May 2018 — Zainab Mohammed, Chief Property Management and Marketing Officer at wasl properties, has won the ‘Emirates Women Award’ for the second time during the 15th edition of the programme under the slogan ‘Wisdom, Goodness and Tenderness’.
- [PRESSWIRE] GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, April 26, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Since the beginning of 2018, the global organization Mercy Corps has doubled its humanitarian response in the Democratic Republic of Congo and plans to help more than half a million Congolese over the next year, making it one of the largest organizations working in the country.
- [PRESSWIRE] BARCELONA, Spain, April 9, 2018 — The strengthening of the relations between island territories in order to tackle challenges such as climate change, economic competition, technological innovation and tourism will be the main objectives of the second edition of the Smart Island World Congress (SIWC), the world-leading meeting on smart islands.
- [PRESSWIRE] ACCRA, Ghana, April 6, 2018 — MoneyGram, a global provider of innovative money transfer services, is thrilled to announce that the MoneyGram Foundation has distributed books, notebooks and school supplies to about 1,000 students at Osu Home Primary & JHS School in Accra.
- [PRESSWIRE] BHUBANESWAR, India, March 23, 2018 —Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), Bhubaneswar, a sister-concern of Kalinga Institute of IndustrialTechnology (KIIT), in partnership with British Council India hosted the ‘Commonwealth Big Lunch’ on March 23.
- [PRESSWIRE] DOHA, Qatar, February 27, 2018 — The Translation and Interpreting Institute (TII) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) has opened registration for the Ninth Annual International Translation Conference.
- [PRESSWIRE] RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, February 23, 2018 — Transparency International has launched its latest 2017 Corruption Perception Index (CPI), where Saudi Arabia’s ranking continued to improve, moving up by five places from previous year’s rank of 62 to a rank this year of 57.
