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2013 Future Policy Award Follow-Up: Arms Control Exchange Between Argentina And Bosnia And Herzegovina
On March 6-7, UNDP Bosnia and Herzegovina and the World Future Council (WFC) organized a conference and weapons destruction event for representatives of government, police authorities and civil society from Argentina and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to exchange their experiences in addressing small arms issues. The events came in follow-up to the 2013 Future Policy Award (FPA), which WFC in partnership with UNODA and the Inter-Parliamentary Union held on the theme of disarmament. The FPA recognized Argentina’s National Program for the Voluntary Surrender of Firearms for its…
Assistance to Liberia in Marking Small Arms
The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC) and the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) cooperated to provide technical assistance and training to Liberia on marking and registering small arms and light weapons. This assistance, undertaken in cooperation with the National Commission on Small Arms of Liberia and its Ghanaian counterpart, aimed to assist Liberia in implementing the provisions of Security Council resolution 2190 (2014) by which Liberia is to assume complete security responsibilities by June 2016, including on small arms, and is to…
The Importance of Civil Society in United Nations and Intergovernmental Processes: Views from Four Delegates to the United Nations
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UNREC training to MINUSMA on combatting arms trafficking in Mali
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><p>In January 2015, UNREC carried out a four-day training course on combatting illicit arms trafficking for the staff of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), in cooperation with the Integrated Mission Training Centre and other United Nations partners. The…
High Representative briefs member States on the lessons-learned exercise on the UN Mission in Syria
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Linking the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and Arms Control Agendas
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Regional Non-Proliferation Coordination Workshop takes place in Panama City, Panama
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><p>From 4-5 February 2015, a Regional Non-Proliferation Coordination Workshop took place in Panama City, Panama. It was organized by the Regional Advisor of the Office of Export Control Cooperation (EXBS), Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, U. S. Department of State. Representatives of…
UNODA at the 16th Committee on Teaching about the United Nations (CTAUN) Conference
On Friday 30 January 2015, two representatives of the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) participated at the information fair of the 16th Conference of the Committee on Teaching about the United Nations (CTAUN) for the second consecutive year. This year’s Conference focussed on the achievements of the United Nations since the signing of its founding Charter in 1945, throughout its growth from an organisation of 51 member states to an organisation of 193 member states over the past seventy years. The Conference also addressed the future of the United Nations and invited…
UNRCPD promotes Peace and Disarmament Education in Nepal’s Schools
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><p>The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (<a title="UNRCPD" href="http://unrcpd.org/" target="_blank">UNRCPD</a>) is assisting Nepal’s Ministry of Education to build the capacity of curriculum…
The Implementation Support Unit on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, a part of the Office for Disarmament Affairs, launches publication
Armed conflicts are a tragic reality of the world that we live in. However, as set out in the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), conventional weapons that are excessively injurious or whose effects are indiscriminate need not be part of this reality. The CCW is an important instrument of international humanitarian law. The CCW’s unique structure allows for the negotiation of new protocols. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said “A key strength of the Convention is its responsiveness to humanitarian issues raised by developments in weapon technologies and…