20 August 2012 — Ms. Angela Kane, United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs visited Japan in August 2012 to represent United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Hiroshima and Nagasaki peace memorial ceremonies as well as deliver …
31 July 2012 — A new website, www.hiroshima-nagasaki.com , will make available new testimonies of atomic bomb survivors living in the Americas. The official launch of the site is on 6 August, 2012, to coincide with the sixty-seventh anniversary of the …
2 July 2012 — For the next four weeks, the United Nations will be the stage for the biggest and potentially most consequential undertaking ever in the area of conventional arms regulation. All countries of the world are coming together to seek agreement …
2 July 2012 — The dedicated UN website on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) negotiations went live on 7 June 2012. This website serves as the primary information platform regarding the historic United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty that will take …
22 May 2012 — On 21 and 22 May 2012, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC), organized the African Regional Consultation on the Arms Trade Treaty at the …
14 May 2012 — Three hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) from Hiroshima, Ms. Shigeko Sasamori, Ms. Toshiko Tanaka and Ms. Reiko Yamada, met with UN Tour Guides and interns in New York to share their testimonies of the horrors they experienced in August 1945. …
12 May 2012 — High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Angela Kane, opened the first session of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2015 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The session was held from 30 April to 11 …
26 April 2012 — In a programme designed to assist Caribbean States combat the illicit trafficking in small arms, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) helped the authorities in Trinidad and Tobago destroy a stockpile comprised of …
25 April 2012 — Over 20 international, regional and sub-regional industry associations participated in the first Industry Conference on UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004), which was held from 23 to 25 April 2012 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Hosted by …
17 April 2012 — As part of 140 events in 41 countries worldwide, an event in the framework of the 2nd Global Day of Action on Military Spending, coordinated by the United Nations Office in Geneva, the International Peace Bureau (Geneva) and the UN …
