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Matching Needs and Resources 2012 – 2014
<!-- 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>24 September 2012</b> — A <a href="http://www.poa-iss.org/poa/2012-Matching-Needs-and-Reources.pdf" target="_blank">compendium of assistance proposals</a> was issued to coincide with the <a href="http://www.poa-iss.…
Nagasaki Youth Peace Messengers
<!-- 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>17 September 2012</b> — 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 (UNODA…
International Day against Nuclear Tests 2012
<!-- 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>6 September 2012</b> — The <a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/againstnucleartestsday" target="_blank">International Day Against Nuclear Tests</a> was observed at UN Headquarters this year on 6 September. The observance…
‘The World is over-armed and peace is under-funded’
<!-- 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><b>30 August 2012</b> — <i>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, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine and…
UN launches new International Small Arms Control Standards
<!-- 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>29 August 2012</b> — 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…
Commemorating the International Day against Nuclear Tests
<!-- 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>29 August 2012</b> — 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 …
Second conference to review Programme of Action on Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons opens in New York
<!-- 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>27 August 2012</b> — 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.</p> <…
High Representative’s visit to Japan
<!-- 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>20 August 2012</b> — 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 a…
New website captures testimonies of atomic bomb survivors living in Americas
<!-- 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>31 July 2012</b> — A new website, <a href="http://www.hiroshima-nagasaki.com" target="_blank">www.hiroshima-nagasaki.com</a>, will make available new testimonies of atomic bomb survivors living in the Americas. The…
UN stands before its biggest undertaking ever in the area of conventional arms
<!-- 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>2 July 2012</b> — 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 on…