The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany supported the Government of Kazakhstan’s delivery of the ‘UNSCR 1540(2004) Regional Industry Outreach Conference for Central Asia and …
Officials at the opening ceremony of UEMOA & UNREC Meeting on SALW From July 23 to 25, a conference was held in Lomé, Togo, to address the proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) within the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) …
From 15 to 26 July 2024, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) of South Africa, in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, organized a basic …
From 24 to 25 July 2024, in San Salvador, El Salvador, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) organized a national workshop on the implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and the preparation of Confidence Building …
From 11-12 July 2024, the Government of the Republic of Indonesia, with the support of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and funding from the European Union, conducted its first-ever ‘Workshop on Promoting National Awareness of UNSCR 1540 …
From 18 to 28 June 2024, States convened at the United Nations in New York for the Fourth Conference to Review the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in all its Aspects and its …
By Elisa Shafiqah binti Shahrilnizam (Malaysia), participant of the Youth Leader Fund for a World without Nuclear Weapons (YLF) “The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded.” I remember coming across this quote by the former UN Secretary -General …
By Nduku Louis Tebi (Cameroon), participant of the Youth Leader Fund for a World without Nuclear Weapons (YLF) My name is Nduku Louis Tebi and I am the founder of Xhuma Africa , a youth-led organization in Cameroon dedicated to empowering young people …
From 25-28 June 2024, the Government of China and the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) hosted a ‘Training Course for UNSCR 1540 Points of Contact (PoC) in the Asia-Pacific Region’ in Beijing, China. The training …
By Johannes Nordin (Sweden), participant of the Youth Leader Fund for a World without Nuclear Weapons (YLF) I have greatly enjoyed partaking in the remote component of the Youth Leader Fund for a World without Nuclear Weapons (YLF) these past six months. …