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Promoting the ratification of the Biological Weapons Convention in Haiti
On 23 March 2018, the Implementation Support Unit (ISU) of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) concluded a universalization mission to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which it conducted at the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Haiti within the framework of the European Union Council Decision 2016/51 in support of the BWC. Haiti signed the BWC on 10 April 1972 but has not yet joined the Convention.[1] However, the Haitian authorities are making progress towards this goal. A ratification decree was approved by the executive and transmitted to parliament in March 2017. The…
High Representative visits Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Kathmandu; meets host Government officials
From 1 to 3 April 2018, Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, made an official visit to Nepal, which hosts the Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD). The Centre is the operational arm of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) covering 43 Member States in the region. USG/HR Nakamitsu meets with Right Honourable Mr. K.P. Sharma Oli, Prime Minister of Nepal. Credit: UNODA The High Representative met with both the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nepal and…
DPKO and ODA brief UN staff on the Effective Weapons and Ammunition Management handbook
UN staff attended a briefing on 14 February 2018 during which the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and the Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA) presented a new handbook for United Nations disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) practitioners entitled Effective Weapons and Ammunition Management in a Changing Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Context. This practical handbook is the first output of a two-phased, joint project by DPKO and ODA intended to support the work of United Nations DDR practitioners related to management of arms and…
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and UNODA partner to empower women for peace and security
Forty-six young professional women from OSCE countries participated in the “OSCE Scholarship for Peace and Security” training, which took place from 12 to 16 February in Vienna. The training is part of an eight-week online course entitled “Conflict Prevention and Resolution through Arms Control, Disarmament, and Non-proliferation.” The aim of the training is to empower women by strengthening their knowledge and expertise in these fields. Over 800 young professional women participants from diverse backgrounds were received. One of the trainees working for a peace research institute…
Malian officials trained on new SOPs for physical security and stockpile management of weapons and ammunition
The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC), in collaboration with the Government of Mali, through Mali’s National Commission for the Fight against the Proliferation of Small Arms (CNLPAL), organized a training-of-trainers workshop on standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) of weapons and ammunition, in Bamako, from 22 to 26 January 2018. The workshop trained officials directly involved in the management of weapons and ammunition storage sites, as well as officials from security services…
Reorienting towards the future: Integrating state-of-the-art weapons and ammunition management into DDR programmes
The complexity of peace operations is rapidly increasing, thus requiring the United Nations to purposefully reorient its efforts to better address the needs on the ground. The Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and the Office for Disarmament Affairs (ODA) have launched of a new resource entitled “Weapons and Ammunition Management in a Changing Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Context”. This practical handbook is the first output of a two-phased joint project by DPKO and ODA intended to support the work of United Nations DDR practitioners…
UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa supports gender perspectives in preventing the acquisition of arms by terrorist groups in Lake Chad Basin
The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa organized a capacity building workshop aimed at supporting gender perspectives in disarmament, non-proliferation and arms control processes in the Lake Chad basin from 18 to 20 of December in Lomé, Togo. The workshop is part of the project entitled, “Mainstreaming Gender Perspectives in Preventing the Acquisition of Arms and Ammunitions by Terrorists Groups in the Lake Chad Basin”, and is funded by the Kingdom of Sweden. The project was established to support the implementation of the UN Security…
RCPD and UNITAR screen documentary “Paper Lanterns” at 27th UN Conference on Disarmament Issues in Hiroshima
The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Hiroshima Office held a screening of the documentary Paper Lanterns at the 27th United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues in Hiroshima 29 November 2017, Hiroshima, Japan – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Hiroshima Office and the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD) co-organized a screening of Director Barry Frechette’s and…
UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa supports the prevention of diversion of weapons by extremist groups in the Lake Chad Basin
The United Nations Regional Center for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC) organized a sub-regional workshop to support the process of marking arms in the Lake Chad Basin Countries from 6 to 7 November 2017 in N’Djamena, Chad, and a national workshop to prevent diversion of arms to terrorist groups from 9 to 10 November 2017 in Abuja, Nigeria. During the two workshops, governmental experts and civil society representatives from Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria received training to use the International Small Arms…
From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Nuclear Weapons Today: A Professional Development Workshop for High School Educators
On 7 November 2017, Hibakusha Stories, an initiative of Youth Arts New York, collaborated with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) to hold a professional development workshop for high school educators entitled “From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Nuclear Weapons Today”. This was the sixth consecutive year that a nuclear disarmament education workshop took place at United Nations Headquarters on the day of the United States election, when teachers at New York City public schools receive time off to participate in continuing education activities. …