On 18 December 2015, Mr. Yasuaki Yamashita, a hibakusha (atomic bomb survivor) from Nagasaki who now lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, met with UN Tour Guides and also with UN interns in New York to share his testimony of the horrors of the nuclear …
25-26 November 2015 Manila, the Philippines More than 40 experts and participants from the Philippine Police, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Office of the Special Envoy on Transnational Crimes met on 25-26 November 2015 …
In Geneva, on 13 November 2015, States Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons(CCW) 1 completed a week of conferences, where one of the key issues before States Parties was Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), which has been the …
As part of its ongoing efforts on disarmament education, UNODA organizes an annual workshop for New York City Public School teachers on nuclear disarmament. On 3 November 2015, the fourth such workshop was held, in collaboration with Hibakusha Stories and …
Michael Spies, Alexandra Hiniker, Maritza Chan, Amrit Singh, Hina Shamsi and Wim Zwijnenburg. The First Committee of the UN General Assembly saw its very first side event on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), or drones, on Friday 23 October 2015. The …
Participants engaging in discussions on serial number restoration methods From 19 to 24 October 2015, the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) carried out, in collaboration …
On 12 October 2015, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) published the study on armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The study was prepared by UNODA pursuant to the recommendation of the Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on …
On 23 July 2015, for the second year in a row, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) in Vienna briefed the Women Ambassadors in Wien (WAW) on the mandate and upcoming initiatives of the Office. This year, the briefing took place at the …
The First Steering Team Meeting in session (Photo Library: UNODA Vienna) The Steering Team, an expert group of 18 eminent members comprising of ambassadors and diplomats from permanent missions, regional organizations and NGOs, met for the first time on …
Women Scholarship for Peace (WSP) meets Women in Nuclear (WiN) side event Women Scholarship for Peace (WSP), a series of initiatives coordinated by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and funded by Austria and Germany, made its first …
