A First Committee side event was held on 18 October at the Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan to the United Nations. The event featured a panel discussion about consolidating and enhancing cooperation among nuclear-weapon-free zones (NWFZs). It was chaired …
On 16 October, a side event entitled “To Safeguard Future Generations: Multi-Faith Responses to the Threat of Nuclear Weapons” was hosted by the Permanent Mission of Austria and co-sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Nigeria, Thailand and South …
On 17 October, a panel discussion entitled Retaining Meaningful Human Control of Weapons Systems was held on the side of the First Committee on Disarmament and International Security. The event was a collaboration between Human Rights Watch’s Campaign …
On 12 October 2018, the Permanent Mission to the United Nations of Sweden organized a side event titled, “The Hague Code of Conduct: Tools and challenges to address ballistic missile proliferation today,” which was supported by the European Union and …
On 15 October, a panel discussion on promoting gender-responsive disarmament and security was held on the side of the First Committee in New York. The discussion was organized by the International Gender Champions Disarmament Impact Group, which was …
On 12 October 2018, the Sri Lankan Mission in coordination with the CCM Implementation Support Unit (ISU) organized a side event on “Convention of Cluster Munitions (CCM) universalization: Asia-Pacific region”. The event was targeted at States not yet …
A side event entitled “Negative Security Assurances as a Practical Step towards Global Zero” was held at the German Mission on 10 October 2018. The panelists included Mr. Paul Ingram as moderator who is the Executive Director of the British American …
On 10 October, H.E. Mr. Ion Jinga, Chair of the First Committee of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, and Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, met with Mr. Sueichi Kido, Secretary-General …
MP from Afghanistan Parliament and Chairperson of the Women, Civil Society and Human Affairs Commission, Ms.Fawzia Koofi. As part of its regional project on women, peace and security (WPS), the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament …
Mr. Valere Mantels,Head of the Vienna Office of the Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) On 18 September 2018, the Vienna Chapter of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) organized a commemorating event in the framework of ‘the International Day for the …
