17 September 2012 — On 21 August 2012, a delegation of 20 Nagasaki Youth Peace Messengers from Nagasaki high-schools visited the Conference on Disarmament Secretariat and Conference Support Branch of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs …
6 September 2012 — The International Day Against Nuclear Tests was observed at UN Headquarters this year on 6 September. The observance took place in the format of an Informal Meeting, convened by the President of the sixty-sixth session of the General …
30 August 2012 — The following opinion piece by Secretary-General BAN Ki-moon has appeared in leading newspapers in Argentina, Bangladesh, Burundi, China, Germany, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, The Philippines, Republic of Korea, Russia, …
29 August 2012 — On August 29, the International Small Arms Control Standards (ISACS) were launched in a side event of the Second Review Conference on the United Nations Programme of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons. The new …
29 August 2012 — On 29 August, a growing community of advocates for a safer world will observe the third annual International Day against Nuclear Tests across the globe. As a part of this community, United Nations staff worldwide will help to raise …
27 August 2012 — The Second Review Conference on the United Nations Programme of Action on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons opens today at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The conference will run through 7 September. Conference …
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 …
