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New Arms Trade Treaty website accompanies most important UN initiative ever on conventional arms regulation
<!-- 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> — The dedicated <a href="http://www.un.org/disarmament/ATT" target="_blank">UN website on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) negotiations</a> went live on 7 June 2012.</p> <p>This website serves…
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs assists African states in preparation for Arms Trade Treaty conference
<!-- 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>22 May 2012</b> — 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…
Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) meet UN tour guides and interns
<!-- 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 May 2012</b> — 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.…
High Representative Kane calls cornerstone of the global nuclear non-proliferation regime a ‘living’ treaty
<!-- 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>12 May 2012</b> — 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…
UNODA’s Regional Centre assists in the destruction of illicit ammunition in the Caribbean
<!-- 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>26 April 2012</b> — 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 16,860…
First Industry Conference on Security Council Resolution 1540
<!-- 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>25 April 2012</b> — 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 the…
Global Day of Action on Military Spending
<!-- 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 April 2012</b> — 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…
Security Council 1540 Committee Unveils Newly Redesigned Website
<!-- 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>10 April 2012</b> — On 10 April 2012, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), in close collaboration with the UN Department of Public Information, launched the <a href="http://www.un.org/en/sc/1540" target="…