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United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and European Union Delegation in Geneva co-host a Workshop in Support of the Biological Weapons Convention Extended Assistance Programmes
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><p>In Geneva on 29 March 2017, the Geneva Branch of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations and other international organisations in Geneva co-hosted the “Workshop in Support of the Biological Weapons Convention Extended Assistance…
Former President of Costa Rica opens UNODA Women Scholarship for Peace training course
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><figure id="attachment_150731" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-150731" style="width: 302px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="/sites/default/files/2017-03/ODAWomen1.jpg" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" loading="…
Technical and Legal Assistance Project to Support the Philippines in the Implementation of the UN PoA and the ATT
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><p><a href="/sites/default/files/2017-03/Pic-1-Philippines-arms.jpeg" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-151040 alignright" src="/sites/default/files/2017-03/Pic-11-Philippines-arms-300x200.jpg" alt width=…
United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific resumes its operations from Kathmandu, Nepal
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><p>On 7 February 2017, the UN Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific (UNRCPD) resumed its operations from Kathmandu, Nepal.</p> <figure id="attachment_147914" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-147914" style="width: 276px" class="wp-caption…
67th Session of the Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters Discusses the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on International Security
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><p>In Geneva, from 25 to 27 January 2017, the members of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters discussed three topics given to them by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, where one of the key issues before them was Artificial Intelligence (AI) on international security.<br> <a href="/…
UNODA publishes paper on “Options for the Further Strengthening of the NPT’s Review Process by 2015”
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><div id="content"> <p><b>14 December 2012</b> — The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs today released the electronic publication, <i>Occasional Paper No. 22 – Options for the Further Strengthening of the NPT’s Review Process by 2015</i>, written by Thomas…
The Secretary-General’s message to the Twelfth Meeting of the State Parties of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><div id="content"> <figure style="width: 200px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://front.un-arm.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/update/20121203/1.jp…; alt="Mr. Kassim-Jomart Tokayev" width="…
Marshall Islands becomes 166th State Party to the Biological Weapons Convention
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><div id="content"> <p>The United States, as a Depositary of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (BWC), has confirmed that the Marshall Islands deposited its instrument of…
UNODA publishes civil society essays on disarmament
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><div id="content"> <p><b>19 November 2012</b> — The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs today released the electronic publication, <i>Civil Society and Disarmament 2012 – Applying a Disarmament Lens to Gender, Human Rights, Development, Security, Education and…
New York City high school teachers visit the United Nations and learn about nuclear disarmament
<!-- wp:columns --><div class="wp-block-columns"><!-- wp:column {"width":"66.66%","lock":{"move":true,"remove":true}} --><div class="wp-block-column" style="flex-basis:66.66%"><div id="content"> <figure style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://front.un-arm.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/update/20121116/1.jp…; alt="NYC high school teachers in training on…