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 …
22 May 2012 — On 21 and 22 May 2012, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC), organized the African Regional Consultation on the Arms Trade Treaty at the …
14 May 2012 — Three hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) from Hiroshima, Ms. Shigeko Sasamori, Ms. Toshiko Tanaka and Ms. Reiko Yamada, met with UN Tour Guides and interns in New York to share their testimonies of the horrors they experienced in August 1945. …
12 May 2012 — High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Angela Kane, opened the first session of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2015 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The session was held from 30 April to 11 …
26 April 2012 — In a programme designed to assist Caribbean States combat the illicit trafficking in small arms, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) helped the authorities in Trinidad and Tobago destroy a stockpile comprised of …
25 April 2012 — Over 20 international, regional and sub-regional industry associations participated in the first Industry Conference on UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004), which was held from 23 to 25 April 2012 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Hosted by …
17 April 2012 — As part of 140 events in 41 countries worldwide, an event in the framework of the 2nd Global Day of Action on Military Spending, coordinated by the United Nations Office in Geneva, the International Peace Bureau (Geneva) and the UN …
10 April 2012 — On 10 April 2012, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), in close collaboration with the UN Department of Public Information, launched the redesigned website of the Committee established pursuant to Security Council …
The inauguration of the Exhibit “Cities are not targets (CANT)” at the Permanent Disarmament Exhibit at the United Nations Headquarters in New York took place on 24 March 2011. Among the participants were Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the President of …
The United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (UNSAC) adopted the “Sao Tomé Declaration on a Central African Common Position on the Arms Trade Treaty”, on 16 March, at its thirty-second ministerial meeting held in …
