UNLIREC armoury management course From 4-15 November 2013 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC), in collaboration with the government …
The First Committee Side Event on the legal status of nuclear weapons was organised by the Permanent Missions of New Zealand and Switzerland to the UN. The Permanent Missions of New Zealand and Switzerland to the United Nations sponsored a First …
UNLIREC’s IITC course From 7 to 18 October 2013, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) – in close collaboration with the Ministry of Defense of Suriname – conducted a 10-day …
The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs sponsored the panel event which featured Ward Wilson, Barry Blechman, and the UN’s High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Angela Kane. Some States may seek nuclear weapons as icons of power. Hence, to …
Recent UNIDIR publication entitled “The Cyber Index: International Security Trends and Realities” ILOVEYOU was a computer worm that started spreading in the Philippines and then attacked tens of millions of Windows personal computers in 2000. This step …
Office for Disarmament Affairs Director Virginia Gamba represented Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the event. Two decades after having renounced their nuclear weapons arsenals, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine called upon the international community to …
Representative Kane with delegation from Gensuikyo On Thursday, 10 October, High Representative Kane met with a delegation from Gensuikyo, also known as the Japan Council against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs. The delegation was in New York at UN …
CTBTO’s of Group of Eminent Persons (GEM) On Thursday 26 September 2013, the eve of the Eighth Conference on Facilitating the Entry into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), a new initiative to advance the CTBT’s entry into force …
Heads of State, Heads of Government, and Foreign Ministers gathered today at an historic High-level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament. Selected highlights of the opening plenary session are below. General Assembly President John Ashe Opened by General …
Fear and empty classes is what Subita recalls from her first year at school: “One of our teachers was killed during the conflict that is why school was closed for a long time and it affected our studies very much”. A decade of conflict in Nepal left over …
