UNODA – United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs

UPDATES

Young changemakers present their recommendations to strengthen disarmament processes at side event to NPT Preparatory Committee

On 31 July 2023, ten young leaders presented their innovative ideas and recommendations to inspire inclusive, diverse, and efficient multilateral processes in an official side event to the first Preparatory Committee meeting for the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Ms. Marykate Monaghan, Youth Outreach […]

On 31 July 2023, ten young leaders presented their innovative ideas and recommendations to inspire inclusive, diverse, and efficient multilateral processes in an official side event to the first...

UNSGM experts join Basic Training Course in South Africa

From 26 June – 7 July 2023, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) of South Africa, in cooperation with...

Launch of the second edition of the Disarmament Toolkit online course

A diverse group of students, professors, representatives of international organizations, civil society organizations and practitioners from Asia and the Pacific joined the second edition of the Disarmament Toolkit online...

North African States discuss universalization and effective implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention in Rabat, Morocco

From 13 to 15 June, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), in partnership with the Kingdom of Morocco, held a regional workshop on the universalization and effective...

Twenty-one experts from across the globe gather in Trieste to learn about virus detection and biosecurity in the framework of the Biological Weapons Convention

From 14 to 16 June, the Implementation Support Unit (ISU) of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), together with the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), organised a...

OUR WORK

The main units of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.

EVENTS

See whats happening in UNODA.

September 12 - 16, 2022

Vienna

IAEA : Board of Governors

September 26 - 30, 2022

Vienna

IAEA : General Conference, 66th session

September 27 - 30, 2022

Vienna

CTBTO : Advisory Group, 59th session

October 3 - 3, 2022

Vienna

IAEA : Board of Governors

October 17 - 21, 2022

Vienna

UNODC : Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 11th session

November 14 - 14, 2022

Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Protocol V Annual Conference

November 14 - 18, 2022

New York

Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

November 14 - 16, 2022

Vienna

IAEA : Board of Governors: Technical Assistance and Cooperation Committee

November 15 - 15, 2022

Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Amended Protocol II Annual Conference

November 16 - 18, 2022

Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Meeting of High Contracting Parties

November 17 - 18, 2022

Vienna

IAEA : Board of Governors

November 21 - 23, 2022

Vienna

CTBTO : Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization: Preparatory Commission, 59th session

November 28 - December 16, 2022

Geneva

Biological Weapons Convention — Ninth Review Conference

January 23 - March 31, 2023

Geneva

Conference on Disarmament

January 25 - 25, 2023

UNODA Science, Technology and International Security Unit — Meeting

February 1 - 3, 2023

Geneva

Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters

March 1 - 1, 2023

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons — Scientific Advisory Group

March 6 - 10, 2023

Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems

March 15 - 16, 2023

Geneva

Biological Weapons Convention — Working Group on the strengthening of the Convention

March 24 - 24, 2023

New York

UNODA Science, Technology and International Security Unit — Workshop

April 3 - 21, 2023

New York

United Nations Disarmament Commission

May 8 - 12, 2023

New York

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons — Working group on further strengthening the review process

May 15 - June 30, 2023

Geneva

Conference on Disarmament

May 15 - June 30, 2023

Geneva

Conference on Disarmament (Part II)

May 15 - 19, 2023

Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (Second session)

May 15 - 19, 2023

Geneva

Group of governmental experts to further consider nuclear disarmament verification issues (Fourth Session)

May 23 - 26, 2023

New York

Open-Ended Working Group on Information and Communication Technologies

June 5 - May 9, 2023

New York

Open-Ended Working Group on Ammunition

July 24 - 28, 2023

Vienna

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – Working group on further strengthening the review process

July 24 - 28, 2023

New York

Open-Ended Working Group on Information and Communication Technologies

July 31 - August 11, 2023

Vienna

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons — Preparatory Committee for the Eleventh Review Conference

August 7 - July 18, 2023

Geneva

Biological Weapons Convention — Working Group on the strengthening of the Convention

August 22, 2023

Today

August 28 - September 1, 2023

Geneva

Open-Ended Working Group on Reducing Space Threats

September 11 - 14, 2023

Geneva

Convention on Cluster Munitions — Eleventh Meeting of States Parties

October 2 - November 3, 2023

New York

General Assembly First Committee

November 8 - 8, 2023

Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

November 9 - 10, 2023

Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Amended Protocol II Group of Experts

November 13 - 13, 2023

Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Protocol V Annual Conference

November 14 - 14, 2023

Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Amended Protocol II Annual Conference

November 15 - 17, 2023

Geneva

Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons — Meeting of High Contracting Parties

November 27 - December 1, 2023

New York

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons — Second Meeting of States Parties

December 4 - 8, 2023

Geneva

Biological Weapons Convention — Working Group on the strengthening of the Convention

December 11 - 13, 2023

Geneva

Biological Weapons Convention — Meeting of States Parties

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