Acting-Director of the Geneva Branch of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs Ms. Mary Soliman greets Japanese Students. On 16 August, the Nagasaki Peace Messenger as Youth Communicators for a world without nuclear weapons visited the United …
On 3 May 2016, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) organized an event to showcase the twelve winning posters from eleven artists who won the United Nations Poster for Peace Contest. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President of the …
Participants at workshop in support of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, funded by the European Union, and implemented by the of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs In January 2016 the Council of the European Union adopted “Council Decision …
On 25 January 2016, UNREC (ODA), UNOCHA, and the African Union convened a High Level Panel on the “Silencing the Guns in 2020”; a side event on the margins of the Summit of Heads of State of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The participants …
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 …
